Ok, I've been reading and visiting this forum for several years (check out my register date!) and although I don't write very often I like to keep track of what is being said... And I've been quite surprised at the lack of a dedicated Social Media section!
Over the last 6 - 12 months the explosion in Social Media across the internet has started to completely redefine how people are interacting and reacting to the online experience.
We all know about Facebook, MySpace, Bebo etc. and the communities that build around them but that is only the start - it seems every new site also needs a blog, a Twitter account, del.icio.us bookmarks, links from every article to Digg, Reddit, Mixx and all the other social bookmarking tools. You submit your new design to showcase sites, make sure everything validates to W3C standard xHTML / CSS (until the Google ads or OpenAds code ruins it). You create video diaries while you build the new site to put on YouTube and Hulu and create playlists of the music you listened to for inspiration on MyStrands, Last.fm and Pandora...
The latest phenomenon is the SMPR (social media press release) taking over from the traditional, boring text only press release this contains multimedia presentations, image files, PDF documents and everything else you can think of to get your message across (I should have more about this soon).
Erm, ok I seem to have lost my thread a bit here (it is a bit late on a Sunday night and I've been working all weekend) - I think my point was... Can we have a dedicated area for Social Media somewhere on the forum, perhaps incorporated with mobile web and web apps?
Thanks!
