When you start working with Social Media Marketing you need to measure it somehow.
All sites and statistics need a place or category. It just makes it easier to find or gather together.
Danny Sullivan (Guru) made his categorization on his blog.
Here hare his subcategories of Social Media
• Social News Sites
• Social Bookmarking Sites
• Social Networking
• Social Knowledge
• Social Sharing
National Geographic’s subcategories of Social Media are quite similar
• Social News Sites
Digg
Reddit
Twitter
Slashdot
Jaiku
• Social Bookmarking Sites
StumbleUpon
Diigo
Delicious
Meneame.net
Propeller.com
• Social Networking
Facebook
MySpace
Orkut
Care2
• Social Knowledge
Wikipedia
Yahoo Answers
Squidoo
Ask Metafilter
• Social Media Sharing
YouTube
Flickr
Tumblr
DevianArt
Recently I made my own categorization of Social Media and it looks like this.
• Social Aggregators/Pushers
Ping.fm
Friendfeed
Hello.txt
Popurls
Posterous
Utterli
Disqus
• Social Bookmarking/Link sharing
Diigo
Delicious
StumbleUpon
Mister Wong
Yahoo! Bookmarks
• Social Collaboration
Acrobat
Skype
• Social Experience Reporting
Flixter
Digg
Reddit
Yelp
• Social Location
Blogloc
Fire Eagle
IRL Connect
Loki
Plazes
Tripit
• Social Media News
Chirps
Jaiku
Koornk
Plurk
Twitter
Wordpress
Blogger
Xanga
• Social Media Sharing
23
72 Photos
Bebo.com
Blip.tv
Buzznet
Drop.io
Dropshots
Fliggo
Moblog
Twitpic
Viddler.com
YouTube
Zoomin
• Social Live Broadcast
Ustream
Bambuser
I will continue to work on my categories and post changes after evaluation.
You can also look at the well known “The Coversation Prism” categorys
Image address
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3009/2735401175_fcdcd0da03.jpg?v=0
Brians blog
http://www.briansolis.com/2008/08/introducing-conversation-prism/
