Collaboration: Ask not what the can do for you, but what you can do with other Internet users. – Jonny Rose
Network: Social media is a phenomenon which creates a personalized network for sharing digital content among all people in the cyberspace. - Rohan Aurora
Conversation: Tools or platforms that allow anyone/everyone to share information or engage in conversation. – Veena Mathew
Sharing: Social media = Sharing information through conversation. – Scot Chisholm
Relationships: Relationshipping on steroids. – Pat Graham-Block
Multi-dimensional: Social media is a multi-dimensional communication information system connecting people to people. -Peter Feuersenger
Inclusive: It’s a conversation in an instant with anyone, anywhere, anytime that gives control back to the individual & consumer in unpredented ways.” – Charles Ubaghs
Information: Information funneled to users from all angles. – Sarah Thomson
Community: Set of updated communication tools that allow us to build new communities at a time when our local community had almost been lost. – Jerry Daykin
Personalization: It is the ability to connect and see the world in your own way. The personalization of one of the greatest human achievements: communication! – Benjamin Fischbein
Empowering: Social media is an online renaissance empowering people with influence to facilitate conversations around shared ideas. – Mark Blackman
A Radical Shift in Communication: The radical shift from one-way broadcast type communications to dialog and conversation using web based tools. - Joe Buhler
Real-time: “Social Media is on-demand, real time interaction, that uses technology to enable genuine engagement with others around media vs simply sharing data with them.” – Corina Newby
People: is the instantaneous aggregation and creation of content by the people, of the people, for the people, on the social web. – Eric Pena
Content Distribution: Social media consists of online technologies that facilitate the creation and distribution of content. – David J. Perdue
Self-expression: Social Media’s my friend. I can finally broadcast my belief in God, my likes in music, my emotional state & my dinner all from my fingertips – E. A. Freire
Unity: The never ending drive for humans desire to unite. – Sean Farrell
Dynamic: Social media is dynamic user-generated content coming from the bottom up, which bypasses static media forms through adding a social layer. – Anees Younis
Discovery: Social media is communication, friending, family, media, learning and discovery at one click. – Glenn K. Bolton
Power of the Crowd: Social media is the ability to put out a message and having worldwide responses via email, text, tweet, or whatever form in a matter of seconds. – Lilian Ongelungel
