mwm top 50 social media tools
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Top 50 social media sites
1. Your Blog: Research shows that more people are reading blogs, those people expect
your company to have a social media presence, and blogs influence there purchasing decisions. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. There are estimated to be more than 112,000,000 blogs, 77% of Internet users read blogs. 2 of the most popular templates are www.wordpress.com and www.blogspot.com
2. Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media
3. You Tube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. Individuals have uploaded most of the content; although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, UMG and other organizations offer some of their material via the site
4. Linked in is an interconnected network of experienced professionals from around the
world, representing 170 industries and 200 countries. You can find, be introduced to, and collaborate with qualified professionals that you need to work with to accomplish your goals
5. Slide Share is a business media site for sharing presentations, documents and pdfs.
SlideShare features a vibrant professional community that regularly comments, favorites and downloads content. Content also spreads virally through blogs and social networks. Anyone can view presentations & documents on topics that interest them
6. Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to
send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-‐based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website
7. Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by
Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website's name stems
from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.
8. Bing is a search engine with a new look and feel that helps you find what you’re looking for more quickly and easily. It gives better UK results and will constantly evolve to give a better search experience through a range of innovative features
9. DMOZ: The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as DMOZ (from directory.mozilla.org, its original domain name), is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links. Netscape owns it, but it is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.
10. Google is widely regarded as the number 1 search engine available also providing e-‐mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking and video-‐sharing services.
11. Yahoo is an American public corporation that provides Internet services worldwide. Best
known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, advertising, online mapping (Yahoo! Maps), video sharing (Yahoo! Video), and social media websites and services.
12. MSN is Microsoft's portal, offering MSNBC News, sports, MSN Money, games, videos, entertainment & celebrity gossip, weather, shopping and more
13. Ask is a search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original search engine software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine. Three venture capital firms, Highland Capital Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, and The RODA Group were early investors. Ask.com is currently owned by InterActiveCorp
14. Reddit: Popular social news website with a large user base. Covers a wide range of news. Includes several topical sections called subreddits, which focus on specific topics like programming, science, politics and business.
15. Digg: The largest and most popular social news website on the Internet. Covers all topics
including politics, entertainment, technology and general news. Includes a separate video and image section.
16. Propeller: A social news site that covers all topics from technology to politics and
entertainment. Operates in a similar fashion to Digg. 17. Fark: A community news site that allows users to comment on news articles. User
submitted links would be posted on the main page once the administrators approve them.
18. Slashdot: Primarily a tech news site, Slashdot also covers topics like books, games,
politics and entertainment. Users can submit stories and they may be published after editors approve it. A popular site that can send a large amount of traffic.
19. Metafilter: A community weblog that allows users to share links and discuss interesting
websites/topics. Moderation is done through editors as well as peer pressure in order to prevent gaming.
20. I am bored: Covers general topics with a strong focus on weird and offbeat news. You
can submit a link that may be posted after the editors approve it. 21. Mixx: A general social news sites that has a category for all types of news. Topics
covered include business, entertainment, sports, health and tech. Includes the ability to create groups to share news with other users.
22. Shoutwire: General news site that is well populated with a loyal group of users. Topics
covered include technology, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and sports. 23. Newsvine: A website consisting of community-‐driven news stories and opinions. Users
have their own blogs and can write articles, save links to external content and vote/comment on other user stories.
24. IndianPad: Is a general social news site that with a large indian userbase. Topics covered
include entertainment, sports, videos and tamil news. 25. Linkfilter: Covers all sorts of news. All links are posted and moderated by users. Links can
be ranked on several levels: clicks, votes, age, or a combination of all three called points. 26. NewsCloud: A general social site with a focus on news in all topics. Similar to Newsvine,
each user has their own blogs and can publish content to be voted up by other users. 27. Hugg is a social news site with a strong focus on environmental issues. Also includes
other categories like politics, science, fashion and technology. 28. Plime: A general news site that features a wide variety of topics ranging from religion
and sports to technology or business. Odd news performs best in this community. 29. C2NN: An active social news site with a variety of topics including environment issues,
business, politics, animals and offbeat. Similar to Hugg in focus but much more populated and active.
30. Nowpublic: A participatory news network that focuses on citizen journalism. Each user
has their own individual profile blog/page and can upload videos, images and news stories.
31. Stirrdup: General social news site with four broad categories: politics, technology, news
and entertainment. 32. Searchles: A hybrid social news sites that covers all topics. Includes a video section and
offers personalized filtering features and the option of joining groups made up of other users with similar interests.
33. Earthfrisk: Covers topics like humor, politics, entertainment and business. Combines a
social network and group features with digg-‐style news voting. 34. Truemors: A social rumor news site that focuses on the publication of “true rumors that
are relevant, informative, and interesting.” Users can post links anonymously via text, voicemail, web or email. Editor’s moderate content.
35. StumbleUpon: A social network and browser toolbar that allows users to channel surf
the Internet. Technically not 100% social news site, although users can submit web pages to be rated by other users. Here is a guide to StumbleUpon.
36. Dzone is a free link-‐sharing community for developers. Other topics commonly featured
include web design and programming. 37. Tweako: A user-‐powered site and social network with a focus on guides and tutorials in
all categories like computing, technology, and the Internet. 38. Autospies: A social site that focuses on automotive news, car reviews, auto show photos
and videos. 39. Design Float: A social news site for design-‐related content. Topics covered include
business, freelancing, advertising, digital art and branding. 40. Ball Hype: A site that aggregates content from thousands of sports blogs. Users can
submit stories and votes will determine if they make it to home page. 41. DNHour is a user-‐powered news portal built specially for the domain name industry.
Most members are generally from the domain name industry, which includes domain name owners, companies or professionals.
42. PlugIM is a user driven Internet marketing community. Topics covered include search
engine optimization, products, business and marketing. 43. Small Business Brief: A niche social site that focuses on small business news. Topics
covered include marketing and sales, website development, management and entrepreneurship.
44. Hypediss: Social news site with a focus on design, fashion, urban culture and art. 45. Chictini: Product-‐oriented social site which a focus on new trends and styles. It’s possible
to submit news stories although most of the submissions feature products from online retailers.
http://www.xing.com/ 46. iliketotallyloveit.com: Allows users to publish and share products with the broader
public which they find cool, innovative, exceptionally beautiful, or just weird. Included with every item is a link to an online shop where it can be purchased.
47. Wordsy: A niche social news site for people who love reading and books. Topics covered
include small presses, fiction writing, authors, book awards and poetry. (Note: Wordsy has suspended its site since Dec 2008)
48. Muti is a social bookmarking site inspired by reddit and Digg but dedicated to content of
interest to Africans or those interested in Africa. 49. Tip’d: A social media site for finance, investing, and business topics. Tip’d users vote on
stories they like by clicking the ‘Tip it’ button that appears next to each story, and then can comment by pressing the ‘Discuss’ link below the story.
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