The Conversation Prism

Brian Solis designed this visual map of the current social media landscape and I personally thought that it was pretty amazing. I honestly had no idea that there were this many social media sites dedicated to anything and everything under the sun. I thought I would share this for those of you that are still deliberating on which online communities to join for the observation paper. I think that Mr. Solis did an outstanding job categorizing all of these social media sites. A peculiar thought to me is that this entire chart will be irrelevant in five years



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