innonate » Social Content http://innonate.com Exploring the social side of innovation, technology, business, and public policy Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:09:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Social Content http://innonate.com/2008/05/19/social-content/ http://innonate.com/2008/05/19/social-content/#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 16:23:31 +0000 Nate Westheimer http://innonate.com/?p=649 Continue reading →]]> As I talk about the BIG VISION for BricaBox, I often find myself repeating a definition for “social content website” — because that’s the scope of our platform, and those are the kinds of sites we set out to power.

Currently, my best definition of “social content” is this:

“Websites where a group of people collaborate on a base of content.”

While I’ve thought about including a qualifier like “… using a common format” to the end of that definition, I think it’s pretty good right now.

Here are some examples of “social content” sites, so you can see the scope of this genre:

  • Wikipedia is a “social content” website
  • YouTube fits this bill
  • Yelp is an example
  • Scribd is a social content site for documents
  • 43things is a social content site
  • Digg is also a social content site
  • Aviary is a social content platform

What’s your definition of “social content sites”? Have you ever thought of all these sites being under one genre?

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