Glossary

Don’t know your podcasting from your vodcasting? Confused as to the meaning of search engine optimisation? And what exactly is a blog? Or blogging? Or the blogosphere?

Here for the first time, in our fabulous Online PR and Social Media Glossary (phew), are our slightly tongue-in-cheek definitions for all the latest buzzwords doing the rounds.

(And writing them kept the immediate future team amused for at least a whole afternoon!)

Any definitions you want to add? Email us at info@immediatefuture.co.uk



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Streaming media	Streaming media is audio (sound) or video (picture) files that are transmitted on the internet and can begin playing as soon as they start being downloaded to your PC. Ideal for the chronically impatient.

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Online PR Lexicon
Crowdsourcing A bit like outsourcing where you pay people £3 an hour to stuff envelopes, crowdsouricng is when a company involves a large number of enthusiastic volunteers to create content, do research and solve problems. Free of charge. Well they might send you a badge or something. More jargon-busting in our online PR glossary

Online PR Lexicon

Crowdsourcing

A bit like outsourcing where you pay people £3 an hour to stuff envelopes, crowdsouricng is when a company involves a large number of enthusiastic volunteers to create content, do research and solve problems. Free of charge. Well they might send you a badge or something.

More jargon-busting in our online PR glossary