Avatar: An Internet user’s representation of
himself or herself, or the personality connected with the screen name of an Internet user.
Blog: A user-generated website where entries are made
in journal-style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
Digg: A community-based popularity website with an
emphasis on technology and science articles.
Facebook: An English-language social networking website
originally developed for university students, faculty and staff, but has since expanded to include everyone, including high
school, corporate and geographic communities.
Flickr: A photo sharing website and web services suite.
Message board: A facility for holding discussions
and posting user-generated content.
Miniclip: A games, entertainment and virtual community
website.
MySpace: A social networking website offering an interactive,
user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos.
Podcast: A media file that is distributed over the Internet
using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers.
Second Life: An Internet-based virtual world
which enables its users to interact with each other through motional avatars available through Adecco.
YouTube: A popular free video sharing website which lets
users upload, view and share
video clips.
Virtual community: Using the internet you can join
a community like Second Life, at Adecco, Kelly or Manpower to try out company
culture, check out opportunities and meet like minded individual. Certainly companies
are doing the same when reviewing future hires and this is something you should not be entirely surprised about.
Virtual Job Fairs: You guessed it. Interact with individual’s from hiring
companies,
have virtual interviews and contacts to check out a company and
of course, leave your resume.
Vlog: A
blog that includes video.
Wiki: A website that allows visitors to add, remove
and otherwise edit and change content, typically without the need for registration.
Edited from AdeccoUSA.com
