Understanding the difference between Forums, Blogs, and Social Networks - The Diigo Meta page

• 07 Nov 10
  

  Khánh Trần

  phuot

  • Social Networks are like topic tables at a conference luncheon. Ever been to a conference where different lunch tables had big white signs inviting people to sit and join others of like interest? It’s like that. Social networks allow members to organize around a person’s relationships or interests, rather that just focused on topic. People that know each other (or want to meet each other) will connect by a variety of common interests. These are great tools to get people of like interest to connect to each other and share information.
• 13 Sep 10
  

  Tadeusz Szewczyk (Tad Chef)

  defnition blogs forums social-networking

• 22 Jul 10
  

  Luis Tinoca

  forums blog socialnetworks

• 22 Sep 09
  

  Martin Lacher

  blog forum social network

• 27 Jul 09
  

  frank herold

  Forums are like social mixers, Blogs are like a keynote speech, Social Networks are like topic tables at a conference luncheon.

  Markenkommunikation online marketing untagged werbung

• 11 Feb 08
  

  bibli addict

  web2.0 definitions

• 04 Feb 08
  

  Benjamin Wendelboe

  mmd_cph3 blogs socialnetworking forums

• 30 Jan 08
  

  Chrys R

  forums blogs socialnetworks blogging

• 28 Jan 08
  

  Tac Anderson

  blogs forums ncb socialnetworks

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  Panos Kontopoulos

  webstrategy

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  the hilker

  blog blogging forums socialnetworking

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  Scott Monty

  Jeremiah illustrates what each property is like, using analogies that anyone can understand. Great resource if you'd like to explain the difference to a colleague or boss.

  blog strategy socnet tips

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  blogging forum socialnetworking

Page Comments

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  Tac Anderson on 2008-01-28
  I've often used similar examples as Jeremiah when explaining the differences between various types of tools.  I'm still amazed at how many managers (especially at the CXO level) still don't understand the difference.  I was recently listening to the results of a CIO study when it became apperant that neither the interviewees or the interviewer understood the differences.  I could tell by the responses that the CIO's thought blogs were forums and when I pressed the researcher about it he obviously didn't understand the difference either.
  

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