Social Media spreading FAST in Virtual World

New Delhi: Social Media is spread around the world imbued with the right values, it is the mean for fixing what’s broken in the world and bringing us together instead of continuing to keeping us apart. To define Social Media in a best way, will be the perfect fusion of Sociology and Technology, which transfers monologues to dialogues. In Business language, it can be defined as User-Generated-Content or Customer-Generated-Media.

The social web has been making huge stride because there are a host of tools that are working together using standardized formats. These standardized formats allow all of these tools to integrate, making the impact of the whole greater than sum of the parts.

Social Media represents a training and experimentation opportunity from which amateurs, hobbyists, creative doodlers and diary keepers will emerge as professional producers of professional media. The benefit of Social Media can be explained in following terms.

Social Media Sites Categories (According to Resources)

Communication:

• Blogs: Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress.
• Micro-blogging: Twitter, Plurk, Pownce.
• Social networking: Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace .
• Social network aggregation: FriendFeed.
• Events: Eventful, Meetup.com.

Collaboration:

• Wikis: Wikipedia, PBwork.
• Social bookmarking: Delicious, StumbleUpon.
• Social news: Digg, Mixx, Reddit.
• Opinion sites: epinions, Yelp, mouthshut.com .

Multimedia:

• Photo sharing: Flickr, Zooomr.
• Video sharing: YouTube, Metacafe.
• Livecasting: Ustream.tv, Justin.tv .
• Audio and Music Sharing: imeem, The Hype Machine.

Reviews and Opinions:

• Product Reviews: epinions.com, MouthShut.com.
• Q&A: Yahoo! Answers, WikiAnswers.
• All Social Media Site Highlights: Socialpunks.

Entertainment:

• Virtual worlds: Second Life, The Sims Online.
• Game sharing: Miniclip, Kongregate.

To have the optimized value of usability of Social Media, one has to take care of certain aspects like, deciding what you are trying to accomplish. Then to decide whom with you have to converse. Then to decide upon the values which are to be taken into the conversation. Next to find out the daily/weekly/ monthly time to spend on these. Afterwards to identify the useful as well as useless contents. Then to consider a group blog and lastly to use the social networks to find people who can help you do your job better.

To get the best out of available social media networks, the different parameters can be taken into care are Traffic, Demand/Search Intent and Branding. Lastly we can say that Social Media Marketing can put the power of press/satellite/antenna in the hands of everyone with access to Internet. The future of Social Media is the future of the world. The final chapter is not yet written, but this chapter in our history is nearing its end.