Social Media Jargon Buster

Wiki

A website that allows users to provide, edit and control content.

Web 2.0

Coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004 to describe blogs, wikis, social networking sites and other internet-based services that enable collaboration and sharing, rather than less interactive publishing (Web 1.0).

Widget

A Widget is a piece of code that enables you to pull in data from another website onto your own site or blog which is then constantly updated. For example, news headlines; local weather; footie scores.

Webfeed

Nachos, mainly, eaten by web developers. Or, feeds, such as RSS, that allow you to read, listen or watch new content on a blog or a website without having to revisit that site.

Wilfing

Ambling about the internet looking for nothing in particular (comes from What Was I Looking For?).

WordPress

A free and easy-to-use publishing system to create a blog.

Wordtracker

Tells you the best keywords and search terms to use on your website, to boost your search engine ranking.