Facebook for Spies?

Social networking has been a hot topic for the last few years. Increasing number of corporations are adapting social networking into their business infrastructure. Most recently the social networking buzz landed with the government.

 

U.S. Intelligence agencies have created a social networking site called A-Space. It is designed for analysts across 16 intelligence agencies across the nation.  Instead of sharing opinions on perhaps the latest movie on Facebook, A-Space users are sharing information about al Qaeda and other national security related issues. For the first time spies can have a chance to think out loud and share top secret information amongst their peers.

 

Like other social networking sites, the goal to A-Space is to promote community and connectivity by assessing all the information available – to the spy agencies that is.

 

Food for thought:

If the intelligence community is already embracing social networking, why are there still so much resistance on adapting to social networking strategies in corporations?  Things that make you go hum..

 

Oh by the way,  the information on A-Space is highly classified, only intelligence personnel with the proper security clearance can access the site. Looks like 007 is still the way to go for a sneak peak of the Spy world.

 

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Social Networking Buzzwords

Social Networking Buzzwords

 

It can be tough to keep up with all the advances in technology.  Often times  when I am immersed in a conversation relating to social media, web 2.0, or social networking, it almost seem like another language with all the funny sounding verbs that do not seem to fit in a sentence. For example:

 

·         Do you Twitter?

·         You can Digg that article.

 

Has someone tried to explain a concept to you, only to confuse you more?  Well, I took the matter into my own hands and found a listing of the latest social networking buzzwords from ignitesocialmedia.com.

These are the words I hear often and find it useful as a quick reference guide. Check it out! Before long, you too, will be able to speak ‘web 2.0’.

 

http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/25-social-media-buzzwordsexplained-part-i-of-ii/

The Buzz around Social Networking

Have you ever wonder what is all the buzz around social networking?  Is this the latest trend in the online superhighway? So what is Social Networking anyway?

I did a little Google and came across a good definition from whaissocialnetworking.com. SOCIAL NETWORKING is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision… if you will.  Although social networking is possible in person, especially in schools or in the workplace, it is most popular online.  

That makes total sense to me. Until recently I start to hear about Social Media. So what IS social media? Luckily I found a good site with definitions of the latest social web terms: http://www.pandemiclabs.com/research.php 

According to Pandemiclabs.com, SOCIAL MARKETING is a catchall term often used to encompass other forms of new media marketing such as viral marketing and buzz marketing.

SOCIAL MEDIA is a form of online marketing characterized by the use of user-submitted and community-moderated content sites such as social news sites, social networks, social bookmarking sites, photo, and video sharing sites in order to propagate a marketing message. Viral Marketing can sometimes be considered a subset of social media marketing

Now it makes more sense. Social networking is a component of social meda.Buckle up as we speed through the social web super highway. And along the way, there will be more new buzz words to pick up. One thing for sure, it is now time to embrace and leverage the power of social media and social marketing.