Like Xerox is to copy machines, Google is to search and bloggeries is to blog posts?

There is a lot to be said about social media sites like plurk.com and twitter.com.  If you are a blogger and follow some of those sites for ideas about how to improve your blogs, promote them or what the trends of blogging are in general, you can get a lot of good information.

You can also get ideas about concepts that you might never have thought about.  One such concept is having people use a term or word that catches on.  What I mean is, for many years, when people said they needed to make a copy of something, they would say “let me take a Xerox of that piece of paper”  or “go to the Xerox machine and make me 10 copies.”  If you were using a Ricoh or Kodak copier, people still used the term Xerox.  Another good example is Google.  How many times have you heard someone say “I will Google that.”  Even though you might use Yahoo or MSN to do the search almost everyone I know says Google when they want to search for something on the web.  These types of synonyms have an impact on our minds and sometimes, I am not sure that we know were are using them because they are used almost automatically at times.

Why couldn’t we use these associations with other things?  What other things you ask?  A friend of mine, who I met through Plurk.com named Rob is using that same idea.  Rob has a website related to all things about blogging called, you guess it, bloggeries.com.  His idea is to have us use the term bloogeries as a synonym for blog post.  Every time was make a reference to a blog post, he suggests we use the term bloggeries.  The neat part about this is that people are doing it.  I have even found myself doing it when talking about posts.  The way that Rob has marketed this idea has kept it in my mind when I am writing bloggeries like this one.

This just shows how a simple idea and the use of social media to share it can turn something simple into the next big thing.  Hopefully many of you can come up with something similar and create your own synonym for your passion too.