My favorite letter Everyone asks me, "Now that I'm getting a better idea of what social media is, How do I actually apply it? Where do I start?"; Start with these, The Five P's of Social Media. The Five P's are; Profiles, Propagate, Produce, Participate, and Progress.
Twitter is one application of a broader category called microblogging. You've seen it on The View, you've watched it creep into night time dramas, you've heard it in the news, you've seen Larry King take on Ashton Kutcher with their one million follower challenge. Ashton Kutcher got over one million followers and beat Larry King / CNN. Ashton had 1,230,000+ and CNN had 980,000+ where the match actually bought malaria nets for children in Africa. Isn't this a great application of social media; helping kids?
TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is
popularly known as a tag cloud or text cloud.