Hacktivist: hackers who commit a computer crime to communicate a socially or politically motivated message.

Traffic: amount of data sent and received by visitors to a Website, Webpage, or social media site.

LiveJournal: a blogging platform.

WordPress: a blogging platform.

Hyperlocal: relating to a very specific and often small community. This community may be geographically or virtually defined.

Download: to transfer data to a computer or device from a larger computer system or the Internet; the opposite of upload.

IP Address: an Internet Protocol (IP) Address is a unique numerical label assigned to all devices that are connected to the Internet. Because the number is unique to a device, it can be used to locate a device that has engaged in certain activity on the Internet.

Platform: a hardware and/or software architecture that serves as a base.

Post: content, in any format, placed on a website or the act of publishing content on a website.

Blogger: a blogging platform also known as Blogspot or someone who blogs.

Web 2.0: the second generation of the World Wide Web focused on shareable, user-generated content, rather than static Web pages. Some use this term interchangeably with social media.

Blogosphere: refers to blogs and blog interactions on the Internet.

Emoticon: a facial expression represented by a combination of punctuation, symbols, or letters used to indicate emotion.

Blogroll: a list of blogs that a blogger might recommend by providing a list of links on their site.

Algorithm: process or set of rules used to perform a task; algorithms are used to generate online search results and other online procedures.

Social media: a category of Internet-based resources that integrate user-generated content and user participation. This includes, but is not limited to, social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace), microblogging sites (Twitter), photo- and video-sharing sites (Flickr, YouTube), wikis (Wikipedia), blogs, and news sites (Digg, Reddit).

ISP: ISP stands for Internet Service Provider, a company that offers customers access to the Internet.

Tag: label attached to Web content, such as a blog post, to indicate what content is about; tags are also used in HTML coding to format text.

Widget: a small block of content that a site can provide to users for implementing on a blog or website. Widgets have a specific purpose such as showing weather forecasts, stock quotes, or news updates.

Hyperlink: commonly referred to as links, hyperlinks allow users to move to other portions of a webpage or document, or to a new webpage or document. A hyperlink is typically activated by clicking on highlighted or different color text or an image.

Blog: a self-published diary or commentary on a particular topic that may allow visitors to post responses, reactions, or comments. The term is short for “Web log.”

Search Engine Optimization (SEO): the process of improving the visibility of a website or webpage in search results.

HootSuite: a social media dashboard that allows users to set up team collaboration; schedule updates to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Wordpress, and other social media sites; as well as track trends and conduct searches across social media platforms.