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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Google Bomb	When the same keyword is inserted in the anchor text in hundreds of blogs and sites in the hope of influencing the Google search engine, it’s known as a Google bomb. A famous Google bomb was the term ‘dumb @&!!$%!’ which sent people to a site about George Bush. Now defunct. Awww.

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Online PR Lexicon
Folksonomy Folksonomy refers to people classifying their blogs, web pages and pictures with informal descriptions or tags. So on Flickr, the tags for a picture of freshly-cut grass might be green; spring; nature; hay fever; sniffles; headache. Folksonomy are also people who go to barn dances. More jargon-busting in our online PR glossary

Online PR Lexicon

Folksonomy

Folksonomy refers to people classifying their blogs, web pages and pictures with informal descriptions or tags. So on Flickr, the tags for a picture of freshly-cut grass might be green; spring; nature; hay fever; sniffles; headache. Folksonomy are also people who go to barn dances.

More jargon-busting in our online PR glossary