I was reading the introduction to Now Is Gone yesterday and decided to make a little diagram (using Skitch) diagramming Kami Watson Huyse's "7 Categories of Social Media." After looking it over, though, one of LaunchSquad's partners, Jason Mandell, suggested that it was really more like the "7 Categories of Consumer-Facing Social Media." I noticed that the list did omit social media application platforms (SNAPs) like Awareness, as well as their competitors like Ning. There are probably even 15 more SNAPs that I'm not mentioning here.
So, without further ado, here's the graphic. This is something that's totally iterative, and, in fact, I'm unsure how many people know about sites like Todd And's Power 150 (sort of a marketing blog Techmeme), but here goes nothing.
If nothing else, this is something to laminate and put up on the wall when you want to think about social media, from the top down. To download it, just right-click and save the graphic. It looks cut-off here, but this is the best way to share it such that all of the text is large enough to be legible.
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