Collaboration Cast

Commcraft has done a great job in explaining Social Media in a simple and creative way in the above video. They compare social media to ice cream and how many people and companies can make their own ice cream and benefit from other’s creations. Their analogy describes popular social media technologies such as syndication, ratings, tagging, reviews, blogs, wikis, video, and podcasts.Their video already had been watched by over 61,000 people and can be purchases for distribution. Vendors trying to sell social media products or services can purchase this video and add their own logo or message to the video. Other social media related videos, published by Commcraft, include:

1. Podcasting in Plain English
2. Twitter in Plain English
3. Wikis in Plain English
4. Video: RSS in Plain English
5. Social Networking in Plain English
6. Online Photo Sharing in Plain English

If you are trying to explain social media to a colleague, boss, or customer these may be a very quick and media centric way of explaining social media and its features.