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New Language: Part 3
You are at a disadvantage if you visit a non English speaking country and can not speak the language. In order to effectively operate in the new world order of social media and social networking, it is important to understand the terminology. I have compiled a list of terms A-Z from various resources to assist you in learning social media language. It is going to take 13 blogs to cover all the information, time for E and F. Check older post for previous language articles.  (Source references are listed at the bottom of each post

e-Commerce:
The process of buying or selling products via the web.

e-Democracy:
The use of ICT to conduct political processes.

e-Government:
The utilization of ICT to conduct the business of government.

eVoting:
Voting enabled by ICT. (ITC, Information and Communication Technologies)

Ear Fatigue:
The literal translation is ‘tired ears.’ Ear Fatigue is not really a clinically recognized state, but audio professionals have been referring to it for years. It’s caused by a combination of TTS (Temporary Threshold Shift) and general fatigue. The condition we call ear fatigue usually occurs after many hours of listening to or working with audio, especially when working at relatively high volumes. It causes us to not hear the sound in the same way we do when we are fresh.

Email:
Electronic mail is messages transmitted over the Internet. These may be simply text, or accompanied by attachments like documents, images or other content.

Email lists:
Important networking tools offering the facility to “starburst” a message from a central post-box to any number of subscribers, and for them to respond. Lists usually offer a facility for reading and replying through a web page – so they can also operate like forums. This web page may offer an RSS feed – so joining up old and new tools. However, there is something of a divide between blog-based conversations and those on lists and forums because the former are dispersed across a network, and the latter don’t usually allow tagging or such easy linking.

Enclosure:
An addition to RSS that allows multimedia files (such as those used in podcasts) to be included along with each item in an RSS file.

Face-to-face (f2):
Describes people meeting offline. While social media may reduce the need to meet, direct contact gives far more clues, quickly, about a person than you can get online. Online interaction is likely to be richer after f2f meetings.

Facilitator:
Someone who helps people in an online group or forum manage their conversations. They may help agree a set of rules, draw out topics for discussion, gently keep people on topic, and summaries. See also roles.

Feeds:
The means by which you can read, view or listen to items from blogs, podcasts and other RSS-enabled sites without visiting the actual site – by subscribing to a directory or aggregator such as iTunes or Bloglines.

Flog:
A fake blog frequently created by an agency to look as though consumers created it. These are often ‘outed’ by vigilant bloggers who dislike the practice.

Folkmind:
Described by some as the “virtual mind of humanity,” it represents the dynamic sum of the accumulated intelligence existing and interacting online.

Folksonomy:
A term for the collaborative, but unstructured, way in which information is categorized on the web. Instead of using one centralized form of classification, users are encouraged to assign freely chosen keywords (called tags) to pieces of information or data.

Forums:
Discussion areas on websites, where people can post messages or comment on existing messages asynchronously – that is, not part of any real time discussion. Chat rooms offer the synchronous equivalent.

Friends:
On social networking sites, friends are contacts whose profile you link to in your profile. On some sites people have to accept the link, in others, not.

Friending:
A method for people to acknowledge relationships in social networks, allowing them to chat with each other, manage invitations, share widgets and find other friends. Friending is the terminology Facebook and My Space use when you invite someone into your network.

Frogmeat:
A neutral term describing a podcast that has a lot of content (meat) to offer but suffers from organizational issues, like jumping around from topic to topic.

Source References for Blog:
CGM Glossary
Social Media Glossary
Wikipedia
Webopedia
Netlingo
Digital Dialogues