For me as a Social Media Marketer, the main point of it is about the brand. Your brand is your most valuable asset of the business and social media helps customers and prospects outside the traditional "coming out" in your face approach to advertising.Social media is designed to inform, engage and interact. That's the main point of using Social Media, for me.
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The main theme forthe 2011 Human Rights Day is the impact of Social Media.
The main means of mass communication (especially television, radio, newspapers, and the Internet) regarded collectively.
With the way social media is steamrolling traditional media I'd say it's the main character. Instant updates with real time, actual human interaction. A company can now see their demographic's wants and needs. With social media, a human interest story involving a major corporation can go viral in an instant. The hems and haws of an entire contingent can be heard and responded to en masse. While the adulation of the same contingent can be spread throughout all the world at the click of a mouse.The role of social media in PR is the main character.
They use the media to get their message across because the media shapes many peoples views. A certain politician from a particular political party decides to 'sell' their ideas using the mass media, it will begin to shape other peoples views and help them get more popularity. They promote themselves through main stream media sources such as the internet; social networking websites such as facebook and twitter, newspapers; which is a large target for certain politicians as many people read certain newspapers etc.
exactly what you said the main stream and tributaries
I would take this question as three popular forms of social media. They would be Social Networking - Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin etc Social Bookmarking - Digg, Stumbleupon etc Blogging - Wordpress, Blogger, tumblr etc
Traditional media is considered to be 'spoonfed' sources of information - a one-way conversation where some media outlet or publisher says "Here you go. This is it." Whereas with social media the power has shifted to the people and the proliferation of user-generated content. It is now a two-way conversation. Interaction between people is the main advantage of social media, while traditional media is one-way, and is targeted at people without much interaction.
Media is a wide source which give us information.the purpose of media is to give us information about current information about our city,social issues,it improve our vocabulary and the main thing it is the way from communicate with each other.
A nonprofit organization's main challenge is the cost of promotions, All social media, works perfectly for these or small organizations to curb their expenditures while maximizing their impact on their target market.
When you say social media there are many sites that cover it but the main sites include Facebook twitter, LinkedIn and You tube. I use almost all of them. Most of the time Facebook and twitter is used to interact with my friends and colleagues where I use LinkedIn to enhance my professorial carrier while i use YouTube for entertainment purposes. However, social media sites are a great source of marketing your business and gaining dividends. The social media marketing is a more broader subject which needs proper implementation.