Getting a Grip on Social Media
While I am lucky to be surrounded by people who get social media and are able to help me sort things out, I am finding there are a lot of PR professionals out there that know social media’s impact on the industry but don’t know where to start in trying to get a handle on all there is to know to about the subject to put the new tools to good use.
So this post is a tribute to all the social media neophites out there, because I feel your pain. Wikipedia is my new best friend, that and Mozilla Firefox, because right now I have searched Wikipedia for about 10 different terms and have three different firefox browser windows open, each with about 5-7 tabs.
Why?
That’s what it takes it seems to keep track of, or just start to understand, what is really going on with social media these days.
Josh Hallett wrote a post recently called Defining Social Media that helps to express the frustration in keeping track of all the conversations and new developments in our social media world.
The developments and changing ideas in social media turn over so fast it will make your head spin. And to top it off, it turns out, everyone who loves social media also LOVES them some jargon. And jargon being tossed around never helps a learning situation.