Media Transparent » content http://mediatransparent.com Media is the New Marketing Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:02:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Three Social Media Functions: Source, Distribute and Discuss http://mediatransparent.com/2008/12/01/three-social-media-functions/ http://mediatransparent.com/2008/12/01/three-social-media-functions/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:15:58 +0000 Pat Kitano http://mediatransparent.com/?p=155 Anybody writing a blog, participating on Twitter, upload to YouTube or using one of the thousands of social media applications can divide their activity into three categories:

Content Sources

Content Distributors

Social Butterflies

What they do

 Bloggers and journalists who source, analyze or interpret new information, ideas, data or breaking news. Bloggers and social media hubs who broadcast and share news and information with their network Social media aficionados who seem to spend all their waking time Twittering, commenting and talking.
Applications used

 Usually have prominent blogs and are cited on Techmeme and HuffPost, etc.

Use Twitter for broadcasting (like mass media outlets, ie CNN)

Publish on a variety of platforms, ie Scoble on Friendfeed and Qik

 Share articles on Google Reader, social news sites like Digg and SocialMedian, and bookmarking sites like Delicious and Diigo.

Retweet news with Twitter.

Stumble articles as an act of generosity to the blog writer

 Ubiquitous presence applications like Facebook and Friendfeed

On every social networking app.

Uses Twitter more for chat than content distribution. Followcost.com determines whether too loquacious for following.
Role

Thought leader, blogging CEO, pundit Knowledge hub, trend watcher, analyst, karma gatherer Social hub, influencer, party animal
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