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To “leverage” means to gain an advantage through the use of a tool. For example, you can more easily raise a heavy object with a lever than you can hoist it up unaided. Marketing leverage simply refers to any strategic or tactical advantage which you can promote for profit. Leverage is a popular business term on the Web. Active... more »
A network-based organization structure outsources business functions, harnesses volunteer labor, leverages information technology services and adopts a minimalist model. Network-based organizations favor democratic decision making that involves most members across the organizational structure. more »
User-generated content (UGC), also known as consumer-generated media (CGM) or user-created content (UCC), (pdf), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development refers to various kinds of media content, publicly available, that are produced by end-users., eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit, Washington D.C. 2007
The notion of free content has been central to the media sector for decades. Consumers have been willing to receive free content, via commercial radio and television broadcasts, in exchange for advertising.
The rise of the Internet in the 1990s was accompanied by a new debate on free content that was played out through experimentation with all forms of content, including business material that had previously been charged at thousands of dollars per document.
The continued, more vertiginous rise of the Internet this decade has also seen experimentation with free content models, but with one major change. As well as professionally produced material being offered free, the public has also been allowed, indeed encouraged, to make its content available to everyone.
The term user generated content entered mainstream usage during 2005 having arisen in web publishing and new media content production circles. Its use for a wide range of applications including problem processing, news, gossip and research reflects the expansion of media production through new technologies that are accessible and affordable to the general public. All digital media technologies are included, such as question-answer databases, digital video, blogging, podcasting, mobile phone photography and wikis. In addition to these technologies, user generated content may also employ a combination of open source, free software, and flexible licensing or related agreements to further reduce the barriers to collaboration, skill-building and discovery.
Sometimes UGC can constitute only a portion of a website. For example on Amazon.com the majority of content i read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-generated+content
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