by Roberto Araujo
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The longest official book of the English language, Oxford Dictionary (OED), has recently added new words to their more than 600,000 words collection.
The influence of online initialisms and street lexicon has made language scholars from the OED update their list of English words since 1989. IMHO (In My Humble/Honest Opinion) I think the OED is trying to catch up with words that have only been officially defined by the Urban Dictionary or the Internet Slang Dictionary & Translator.
Although these time saving Internet-associated
expression like OMG, LOL, IMHO seem to have been initiated through language of electronic communication. OED surprisingly claims that these words predate the Internet era.
For example OED says that it found a quotation for OMG in a personal letter from 1917. Additionally, in the language of memoranda of 1941 the acronym FYI (For Your Information) appeared for the first time and in 1960 the expression LOL detonated an elderly woman (Little Old Lady).
The preserving and driving of language words has been reinforced by these Internet’s symbolic developments. The natural instinct of people to dislike change, has delayed (for about fifteen years) the acceptance of the double-up adjectival noun “web site” to become the all inclusive noun “website.” This word has actually taken twenty years to be accepted by the AP Stylebook.
Here is a list of few recently accepted OED Internet words and symbols in no particular order:
OMG – Ohh My God
IMHO – In My Humble/Hones Opinion
LOL – Laugh Out Loud
FYI – For Your Information
♥ – Heart, Love
Muffin Top – Protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
been the year for technology, social media and mobility. New gadgets made their debut, social sites hit record numbers of users and the largest amounts of data and traffic were recorded. For all this developments to take place, many teams of geeks had to put their heads together to come up with clever and sophisticated campaigns. The following are these creative campaigns, listed by quarters.
from many consumer and enterprise companies in implementing a social media programs. Social media has proven to be of high value to many businesses and entrepreneurs. This led to Google’s launch of Buzz, a networking tool that promised to displace Twitter, but didn’t follow through growth. Location based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla, began gaining a positive momentum in these first few months. Worpress proved to be the leader as the blog platform of choice, while Justin Bieber was a regular top trending topic on Twitter, showing signs of his future dominance as the 
April – June
We saw the success of the viral “Old Spice Guy” campaign, which began on YouTube and earned hundreds of thousands of views within a few days. Apple, realizing the importance of social networks, launched Ping, which didn’t catch much buzz, but is still striving to survive. By this time Facebook hit a new record of subscribers with 500 million. This news confirmed a direct battle against Google on the domination of the online space. This came along the realization that 
concern throughout 2010, but particularly these months after an anonymous group launched DDoS attacks on companies that bailed on Wikileaks. Finally, the year couldn’t end without mention of the Angry Birds fever. People discovered the addictive pleasures of pitting Angry Birds against smug snickering pigs so much that the social game was made into a Play Station and PSP game.
by Roberto Araujo
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Influence, Leadership and Visibility: 3 Benefits for Responding to Comments on YouTube
Engagement is a word that generates lots of noise in the social space. Brands are often required to meet this concept with their audiences at every social network were they’re active; however, many times, comments left on the YouTube channel of various brands are left unanswered.
It is equally important to respond to those comments from YouTube users as those of our wall on Facebook or mentions on Twitter. Wondering why? Well, here are three fundamental benefits to why you must interact and answer comments made on your YouTube channel.
1. Influence
Replying to comments on videos that will surely be focused on products, services, company or industry clearly demonstrates knowledge of your company’s specialty. The more questions answered, the more likely that our audience will be back to our channel and identify us as a benchmark on the industry in which we’re part of. Creating quality videos with good content is as important as contributing and maintaining quality conversation on your videos.
2. Leadership
Creating a place were our voice is heard, as well as hearing the voice of others will help us grow our community and affirm endorsement. Building trust in the face of our viewers with questions, comments or putting together relevant conversation topics to discuss will strengthen the bond with our audience. Giving a personalized tone when interacting with our audience should give our brand a feeling of accessibility. The faster we respond with really useful information, the more please our audience will be, as well as surprised that their comments are being answered given that most comments on YouTube channels are left unanswered.
3. Visibility
An additional benefit we can gain if we respond to comments on YouTube is that the continual conversation leads to more visibility on search results (SEO) from YouTube and Google. The more feedback and interaction taking place in one of our videos, the more valued is added in the search algorithm of YouTube and Google for certain searches.