Social Media Resources
Social media or Web 2.0 refer to newer trends on the Internet that allow users to contribute content, to interact in new ways, to easily form and disperse groups with similar interests and goals and to generally increase the virtual connections and conversations among people.
Social Media Resources
Chris Brogan
Chris Brogan is well known as one of the top social media experts. His blog expounds on social media and its application to business strategies and much more.
HubPages
The HubPages site provides an easy way to publish web pages. After you register, you can use HubPages’ collection of tools to write articles, upload pictures and videos and add links. You can also add Google ads as well as offers from eBay and Amazon. People can browse HubPages by topic or a specific search. This is one more way to spread your expertise around the Internet and to participate in communities of interest.
Mari Smith: Why Facebook?
Expert in how to use Facebook for your business. You can sign up for her free Facebook marketing tips.
Mashable
Mashable bills itself as The Social Media Guide. It is this and quite more. There is lots of information on what you’d expect—Twitter and Facebook. But there are also How To guides, great posts on Wordpress and Google and even a category about social media and jobs. It’s a popular and compelling site.
Propeller
Propeller is a free social media site that builds communities based around topics as varied as Health and Fitness, Hard Rock and Buddhism. After registering, you can submit a web page url (of a compelling article, video, etc.) to a particular group. Members can discuss the submitted web page and vote on it, propelling it upwards or downwards in viewer popularity. If members like your article or media object, it may propel you to the top, potentially providing more traffic to your site. It is in your best interest to submit the most valuable content you have.
Socialbrite
This site will keep you up-to-date on the latest social media tools and how to use them. Particularly useful is their list of web 2.0 productivity tools.
StumbleUpon
The purpose of StumbleUpon is to share your favorite websites and to discover the favorites of others. This is one of the many places where you can get involved with a community and share your website. It will, at the least, provide a backlink which should ultimately help your Google page rank.
Su.pr
Su.pr is a URL shortener, which is a way to reduce the length of website addresses that you tweet or sent out one way or another. Type in a url in Su.pr and it provides a shortened version. Su.pr is connected to StumbleUpon, because every Su.pr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpon’s nearly 8 million users.
Twitter 101
Don’t understand how you can use Twitter for your business? Twitter 101 gives the history, terms, best practices and other resources for using Twitter. It’s a great find.
This is another Twitter guide by the Twitter folks themselves. It focuses on the business uses of Twitter. If you’re not sure how Twitter can help your business, check this out.
Twitter Apps
Integrates Twitter with MS Outlook so that you receive Twitter updates in Outlook.
An end to Twitter frustration! This is an easy way to search through Twitter.
This is a desktop browser for viewing and organizing tweets from the people you follow on Twitter.
This software adds Twitter to your iGoogle page, allowing you to easily read tweets of the people you are following on Twitter. (FYI: iGoogle is an RSS reader. It gathers up all the blog and news feeds you subscribe to and puts them on one page.)
Twhirl provides a way to see multiple Tweets on your desktop.
