Salty Social Media Vocabulary: Industry Night
It’s Tuesday, which of course means it’s time for another round of Salty’s Social Media Vocab. Today we’re diving into some common industry abbreviations with which many non-specialists may not be familiar. There’s a bit of overlap between many of these, making them...
Salty Social Media Vocabulary: Motivated by FOMO Edition
It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for Salty Social Media Vocabulary! Today’s list runs a broad gamut, so let’s dive right in. Doxing: the act of researching and publicizing someone’s personal information via the internet. A fairly popular activity of both activists...
Salty Social Media Vocabulary: The Don’t @ Us Edition
Welcome back to Salty Social Media Vocabulary, a weekly series where we cover everything from popular abbreviations and hashtags, to trends and jargon. There's no particular theme to this week, so let's get right to it! Vlog: Denotes a video blog, in contrast to a...
Social Media Vocabulary: Some Abbreviations
Welcome to Salty Social Media Vocabulary, a weekly series where we cover everything from popular abbreviations and hashtags, to trends and jargon. Because there’s a lot to cover (after all, the internet is big AF) we’ll be adding more every week. ICYMI: In Case You...
What is Growth Hacking?
By Nicole Donnelly, CMO, Spring Global Say Growth Hacking around a bunch of SEO practitioners and you will likely elicit scowls at very least. You talk to a “social media expert” who’s been in the biz for a while and they’ll poo poo the term as trendy. It’s not...
Social Media Vocabulary: LMGTFY
LMGTFY: Let me Google that for you. LMGTFY is the 21st century’s equivalent of “do I LOOK like your mother?” Simply put, it’s pretty rude AND really funny. If you know your audience. James: ‘hey man, do you know how tall mount everest is? I need to know for a...
Social Media Vocabulary: Trolling
Trolling. Trollin'. Troll. Jimmy Rustling. All of these terms mean one thing: getting a rise out of someone online. There are a few different types of trolls, but the most common is a standard inflammatory troll. He's just like the class clown, only with more...
Social Media Vocabulary: Vaguebooking
Vaguebooking (verb) - the act of hinting at some event, emotion, or situation without actually stating any facts. Typical statuses can include things like: "I can't believe you would say that" (directed at either nobody or everybody) "some people never change" "best...
Social Media Vocabulary: 5 Tools For Tracking Social Media Sentiment
This week, social media vocabulary is taking a look at some tools that will help you take stock of your sentiment on your social networks. Are your tweets mostly positive? Mostly negative? These will look at Twitter so if you come across some others that focus on...
Social Media Vocabulary: Hot Social Sites With An Artsy Feel
There are a few sites right now you may have heard of, but a couple are pretty new so we're featuring them this week in social media vocabulary. If you ever wanted a great way to visually collect interests and things on the web you think are awesome, try out one of...