Social Media is an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and content creation. Social media use the “wisdom of crowds” to connect information in a collaborative manner online. Through social media, individuals or collaborations of individuals create web content, organize content, edit or comment on content, combine content, and share content. Social media uses many technologies and forms, including RSS and other syndicated web feeds, blogs, wikis, photo-sharing, video-sharing, podcasts, social networking, social bookmarking, mashups, widgets, virtual worlds, micro-blogs, and more.

Some Forms of Social Media

• Blogs
• Microblogging
• Podcasting
• RSS Feeds
• Social Networks and Government
• Wikis
• Virtual Worlds