Assignment:

Chapter- Social Media, Peer Production, and Leveraging the Crowd.

1. What distinguishes social media and peer production sites from the prior generation of Internet sites? How have you seen social media sites impact businesses, large and small? Use this as reference,

2. Search online to find out which blogs are currently the most popular. Why do you suppose the leaders are so popular?

3. Visit the major social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest). What distinguishes one from the other? Are you a member of any of these services? Why or why not?

4. Why would a person or organization choose to use Twitter over Facebook`s status update, or other services? Which (if either) do you prefer and why?

5. What is crowdsourcing? Give examples of organizations that are taking advantage of crowdsourcing and be prepared to describe these efforts.