Dodge Communications » Meme http://www.dodgecommunications.com/blog Strategic PR and Marketing for Healthcare Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:27:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Word of the Week: Meme http://www.dodgecommunications.com/blog/word-of-the-week/word-of-the-week-meme/ http://www.dodgecommunications.com/blog/word-of-the-week/word-of-the-week-meme/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:30:59 +0000 Word of the Week http://dodgecommunications.com/blog/?p=2221

Meme: If the definition of an Internet meme seems ambiguous, it’s probably because it is. A meme is any idea orwotw_small thing that can be spread from one person to another. On the Internet, this can be anything from a video or photo that has gone viral to a chain e-mail or those ubiquitous questionnaires on Facebook. In PR and marketing, memes are seen as an inexpensive way to create buzz for a product or service, especially those that aren’t getting much attention in the mainstream media.

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Social bookmarking, Trackback, Twitter Grader, Authority, TweetBeep, Compete, Astroturfing, WEGO Health, BackTweets, PDR.net, socialmention, Twazzup, Health Exchange, Health Tweeder, DIDGET, Thoora, Google Buzz, bit.ly, E-patient, Alltop, mHealth, Augmented reality, OpenID, ROI, #hcsm, Medpedia, Almost.at, Hashtag, FollowFriday, Beta, Microblogging, Sidewiki, Meta tags

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wotw_small#FollowFriday (#ff) – Every Friday, tweeters include this Twitter meme in a post that suggests other Twitter accounts for people to follow. Tweeters recommend that their followers monitor these accounts because they provide valuable information or are interesting members of the Twitter universe. This weekly event is a great way for Twitters to earn credibility and followers by being endorsed by a third party Tweeter.

FollowFriday was started by Micah Baldwin in January 2009 so that he could suggest a person to follow and help other Tweeters find out about unique tweeters. According to Mashable, the first FollowFriday saw two #followfriday tweets per second, and now each Friday there is a drastic spike in the number tweets that include #followfriday.

Like most uses to Twitter, #followfriday is a great way to get information out to a large audience with relative ease and to help upcoming Tweeters improve their Twitter following. Since today is Friday, who are you going to suggest for #followfriday?

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