SMO - Social Media Optimization

 SMO - The New Buzzword in Internet marketing!

The term SMO (social media optimization) was coined by Rohit Bhargava and has since been buzzing all over the internet.

Let's look at it first what it exactly means. Wikipedia describes social media as

"the online tools and platforms that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other. Social media can take many different forms, including text, images, audio, and video. The social media platsform use tools like blogs, message boards, forums, podcasts, bookmarks, wikis and vlogs."

Examples of social media applications are:

• Wikis: Wikipedia
• Social networking: MySpace and Facebook
• Presence apps: Twitter
• Video sharing: YouTube
• Virtual Reality: Second Life
• Events: Upcoming
• News aggregation: Digg, Reddit and Stumbleupon
• Photo sharing: Flickr and Zoomr
• Livecasting: Justin.tv
• Episodic online video: Stickham, YourTrumanShow
• Media sharing: Izima and Pownce
• Social bookmarking: del.icio.us
• Online gaming: World of Warcraft
• Game sharing: Miniclip.com

For more on SMO see below:

• Social Bookmarking for Internet Marketers
  
  Information about the why, what and how of social bookmarking - one of the hottest Web 2.0 online trends.
• SMO Big Bang Of The Internet World
  
  SMO - a tool to optimize websites so that it can be more viable, easily approachable and simplified to other websites and communities online.
• Social Networking and Web 2.0
  
  Information about social networking and Web 2.0 - a new method of communicating online.
• Social Media Optimization versus Search Engine Optimization
  
  Information about the changes in website promotion - social media optimization versus search engine optimization.