July 23, 2004

Social media = blogging + social networks?

Christian Crumlish

Chris Shipley is introducing Guidewire as a social media company, and she just defined social media as "media as a contact sport."

She says that Guidewire coined the term social media. Is that right? I know Mary Hodder's been using a lot recently but I haven't found the earliest online cite.

Posted by xian at July 23, 2004 8:36 AM
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