We often think of social media as a way of sharing between friends and sometimes advertising, but you can also find wonderful examples of social media being used to facilitate selfless giving and volunteerism. The Facebook Group “Thank You Heroes” is one such example. Several wonderful people have banded together to start a project of [...]

While Web 2.0 has been around for awhile and social networking is not new, the explosion in social media usage in 2010 is extraordinary. Some social media sites date back to 1995; e.g. classmates.com and the real boom in new sites was probably in 2005. However, it is only recently that the usage of social [...]

During the rush up to Christmas, there were a couple of videos that poked a little fun at our online lifestyles by attempting to show what it might have been like if social media had been around at the time of Christ’s birth. If you haven’t already been hit with them (and you probably have [...]

We now feature a fairly comprehensive listing of social media sites organized in the following categories: Blogging Services Bookmarking Services Email Services Image & Video Sharing Instant Messaging Micro-Blogging Services Other Social Media Services Social Networking Social News Tools URL Shorteners Virtual Reality Worlds