Social Media Tools

Free Google Stuff - What You Probably Never Played With

If you have ever been searching online, you have probably been on Google looking for something. If you are like most people- for hundreds or thousands of things on Google. Oddly enough, I have a question: do you have any idea what other services Google offers for free?
Over the years Google has taken an [...]

3Jul2008 |

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Online Reputation Control- Google Alerts, Google Everything

A good portion of online marketing is understanding how your professional brand is being influenced online. At some point in time, any company will be subject to having good (or bad) press coverage, customer commentary, or industry debate. Knowing that the conversation is occurring is the first part of winning the long-term battle of having [...]

25Jun2008 |

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Alltop News Aggregation

Keeping track of millions of news sources is increasingly difficult, especially if you are not a tech savvy user of the web and don’t know how to effectively browse for information. In many cases, sites like 123SocialMedia and others are becoming information aggregation points where experienced professionals like our staff choose to inform our readers [...]

21Jun2008 |

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Enterprise Social Media Platforms Choices

This is a quick reference point for any decision maker looking to jump into the social media space and launch your own community. While I would like to say there are obvious differences in the community space for enterprise social media platforms, the most unique quality of these providers is service and assistance. Technically [...]

26May2008 |

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Mybloglog Social Media Community Widget

A lot of people ask me about the different blogs and social sites I setup, and many of them have a common feature on the sidebar that has dozens of member images looking back at you (the reader). That service is MyBlogLog. If you don’t have it enabled on your blog, you should really have [...]

26May2008 |

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Enterprise Social Networking Platforms

Almost every business and entrepreneur wants a social networking platform and virtual community. If you have a community or want to develop one around your business- the online technology has become so affordable it is often just a matter of customizing free open-source software or paying minimal fees for having your own created by someone [...]

23May2008 |

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123 Guide to Google Gadgets

A lot of people think they have to create new information for social media. While original content is good, it isn’t always necessary - in fact most popular sites barely have a drop of fresh content on them. There are dozens of different sites that provide functional, useful (and fun) gadgets, ranging from Widgetbox to [...]

30Apr2008 |

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Biznik Community Review

Biznik.com
CURRENT COMMUNITY SIZE: (as of 4/01/08- 9000 members)
COMMUNITY DESCRIPTION: Per Biznik- “Biznik is a business-building social network for indie professionals. That means folks who own and operate their own businesses, whether they are the head honcho of one or a team of twenty. Accountants, fashion designers, writers, sex therapists, business coaches, attorneys, marketing gurus, soap [...]

14Apr2008 |

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1000 Ways to Enhance Wordpress

We receive numerous requests on “how to” add functionality to various blogging platforms, especially WordPress (which in our opinion is the best overall platform.)
If you are a Wordpress user- realize that there is a vibrant and thriving community of technical developers, creative users, and astute business minds that are enhancing the Wordpress platform on an [...]

4Apr2008 |

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Social Media Reputation Control with Naymz

Having a background in employment/recruiting search engine work and online reputation control for professionals, I decided to give Naymz a spin for development work. Namyz allows you to put up a profile just like Linkedin, but is shooting for more of a “rep control” aspect of interacting with the search engines and your social network. [...]

1Apr2008 |

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