Thursday, 18 March 2010

Useful social marketing sites and tools - can you add any?

One of the most useful aspects of our on-line marketing workshop last night was being able to pick up on new facilities and websites that other people suggested. This table is a summary of all the ones we discussed - if you have any others please let us know.


Google
Search Engines  -The amount and quality of your content is important in making sure your site or blog is indeed. Links to and from other related sites are also useful
Bing (Microsoft’s new search engine)
Yahoo
MSN
Wikipedia
An authoritative site with definitions of just about everything. Look and see if a subject you know about is in need of an editor – but be careful to be unbiased and non-commercial in what you say
Delicious
bookmarking sites where people can search for articles and blogs.
Digg
Twitter
A micro-blogging site – people post 140 character messages about what they’re doing. You can follow people you find interesting and other people can follow you.
Google Buzz
Google’s version of Twitter
Facebook
Used heavily by teenagers and increasingly adults to run their social lives. Post events, pictures, messages and play games
LinkedIn
Much used by professionals, particularly those looking for work. Can post a detailed CV, start discussion groups, post events etc. There are many LinkedIn groups for professional disciplines and other organisations – or set up your own.
Viadeo

Similar to LinkedIn – some different features on each. Generally business oriented
Naymz

ecademy
YouTube
Video sharing site – great time waster!
FlickR
Photo sharing
MySpace


Free index
Business directory and forums for small business
Hotfrog
Free Business directory
Plaxo
Online contacts/address book
Hi5
Like facebook but (allegedly) more fun









Wordpress

Sites that allow you to build a blog very quickly – just subscribe and you can have a blog within a few minutes. Then you just need something to say!
Typepad

Blogger

joomla
Technorati
An index of blogs – mainly US dominated
Feedburner
A way of providing people with feeds from your blog/twitter account
Moonfruit
Template based website building sites
Webeden
google
Crazyegg
Shows a heatmap of your website, tells you where people click
Google analytics
Shows you how many people visit and what they look at
Google Wave
Tools to help you collaborate with partners and clients eg share calendars, co-edit documents
Google Wiki
Huddle
Tweetdeck
Have multliple twitter personalities and/or searches going
Twitterfeed

Link your blog or website feed into twitter
Hootsuite

Similar to tweetdeck - Other twitter clients here http://www.twitstat.com/twitterclientusers.html

friendfeed

Allows you to pull together feeds from friends and display in one place
slideshare
A place to share slide presentations on LinkedIn
Xobni
Link your Outlook email to LinkedIn – similar facilities are also part of the next release of Office.

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