Wednesday Words: AMA

You may have seen posts across social media about AMA's on reddit held by relatively well known individuals (such as Bill Gates, Levar Burton, etc.), but may not know what AMA or Reddit is.  If you're curious as to the definition of Reddit, you can find it here.

Reddit is known for hosting AMAs.  AMAs are a segment where famous individuals are live on Reddit and invite its users to "Ask Me Anything. They then spend a couple hours answering questions  and commenting.

AMAs have been used just for fun, other times they've been used to answer serious, legit questions about upcoming video games, the state of a company, etc.  John Smedly's AMA is a good example where he answered questions not only about Sony Online Entertainment, but about both retired and upcoming games.

Anyone that is a relatively known individual can set up an AMA in the appropriate channels through Reddit.  If you are interested in doing it to add coverage to your game, book, business whatever, you should look into it more.

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Wednesday Words: Reddit

Today's word is not so much about social media, but social news and that word is Reddit.  If you remember using Digg, in many ways Reddit is similar to Digg.  It is a social news site built upon its community of users who share, like and comment on stories.

Reddit has become known for the AMA (Ask Me Anything) segments where famous individuals are live on Reddit answering questions over a couple of hours.

While Reddit isn't as much about social media networking as it is about social media news, if your brand becomes famous (or is famous) and you've got well known folks that might be interested in doing an AMA, it's a great way to mingle with social media and cross promote in many ways.

Reddit is not for the light of heart and there are many rules which apply to the community.  Before you post there, be sure to familiarize yourself with the rules and etiquette.

Wednesday Words are a series of definitions released on Wednesday each week regarding a word found specific to Facebook's social media platform, or may be a generic word dealing with social media.  These definitions are to help provide you with a better understanding of common and uncommon terms associated with Facebook and social media.   You can find all the Wednesday Words by clicking on the Wednesday Words tag below.