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social media

An umbrella term for communication and social interaction through online formats such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, online blogs, LinkedIn, etc. Social media is increasingly being used by companies and organisations, including governmental, to encourage participation and engagement with their readership, members and the general public.

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Ultimately, sites must amass a huge collection of proprietary content, content from partners, and other external sources and combine it with user-generated content, then synergize this content with social connections in order to achieve digital media's new Holy Grail: the Triangle of Content Success.

The triangle of content success: building the perfect combination of editorial and user content, infused with the intelligence of social connections

Andrew Keen, a provocative author who has been called the anti-Christ of the Silicon Valley, shared his insights about the democratization of data with user-generated content during the Wednesday luncheon keynote.

SIIA information industry summit: state of the industry

"The user-generated content we pull [with the software] increases conversion rates," said Mary Mentz, e-commerce strategist for Dannijo.

Social pics help retailers get real: Urban Outfitters, Mini Cooper and Dannijo mine Instagram and Pinterest to enhance product pages

My opinion, as a survivor of one of the pioneering efforts, is that the truly successful hyperlocal site will combine many of these models, bringing together user-generated content, professional journalism, databases, maps, photos, social media, video, discussion forums and many other elements into a powerful omnibus of local information that is far more relevant to the community than anything we've seen to date.

Response to Outing: On Demise of 'Hyperlocal' Backfence

* About 33% have user-generated content on their sites.

SIIA survey tracks business use of web 2.0 technologies

"User-generated content has changed the model here at Computerworld and at other publications," Lamont says.

Faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent

Postano 2.6 is the most intuitive platform to easily find and approve user-generated content across multiple social networks.

TigerLogic announces new Postano platform

The app relies on user-generated content as well as information from the airports.Country: USASector: Computer SoftwareTarget: GateGuru IncBuyer: TripAdvisor IncType: Corporate acquisitionStatus: Closed

TripAdvisor buys GateGuru

DailyMe supplies licensed and user-generated content and Web-views, RSS, e-mail and automated-printing delivery options.

DailyMe.com Launches with Three Free Editions

In mid-October 2007, five leading commercial copyright owners (CBS Corp., Disney, Fox Entertainment Group, NBC Universal, and Viacom, Inc.) collaborated with four leading user-generated content sites (Daily-motion, Soapbox on MSN Video, My-Space, and Veoh.com) to establish a new set of User Generated Content (UGC) principles (www.ugcprinciples.com).

User-generated content principles: a new balance

Certainly, companies like YouTube and MySpace have been designed from the start to deal with unpredictable quantities of user-generated content, but what about organizations that have been doing business on the web the old-fashioned (one) way?