How Many Damned Social Sites Do I need To Join??

I get asked this every day and here is part 1 of a reply to a post I did over on www.xbiz.net

 

General Social Networks

1) Facebook (1 personal profile & 1 company fan page min).

2) LinkedIn (1 personal profile & 1 company profile and 3-5 industry groups plus 1 proprietary group (optional and only if you maintain it daily).

3) Myspace (yes I said myspace...don't count them out yet now that it sold at market value and managage debt service). (1 personal or company profile)

4) Google+ is the new kid on the block and pretty lame and redundant to me at the offset but gaining in my esteem simply based on the fact that Google owns it and although I think it needs A LOT of improvement they will put the time and money into doing so. (looks to me like they rushed an Alpha product through and are dumb like foxes by letting the early adopters do their dirty work for them). For now...be there but give it only minor attention.

5) Twitter is a must have, still don't get it really, perhaps I'm just too long winded as this post exemplifies but it's for those people who just read the funnys on Sunday in my opinion but the sad part is that's a huge percentage of the population.

 

Blogs

6) One Company Blog self hosted stand alone or integrated into main company website. I recommend Wordpress first, Blogger second, Tumblr and Posterous tied in 3rd...leave the rest.

 

Social Bookmarking Sites

7) Digg.com is my favorite in this category followed closely by Delicious, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Plurk, Diigo, and FriendFeed.

 

Question/Answer Sites

8) Quora & Formspring are the two biggies along with Yahoo Answers and I tip a nod in the direction of Quora for quality of content."

 

More soon in part II

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Social Network Platform News

News 9 new results for social network platforms

SocialGO Rolls Out a Social Network Platform For Gamers San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Having a social networking platform that they can create and modify to suit their needs can encourage more personal interaction, allowing clan members to better know the gamers that they play alongside. Having all communication running through a ... See all stories on this topic »

Toyota Social Net Gives Voice to Customers and Cars ClickZ News Launching initially in Japan with electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, the Toyota Friend network will run on private social network platform Salesforce Chatter. It will connect vehicle owners to each other and to the brand, and among other things ... See all stories on this topic » ClickZ News

IPgallery Enables Service Providers to Deliver Social Communications to End-users TMC Net This bridge enables network operators and service providers the ability to offer a branded socialcommunications platform across any device to subscribers and business customers for advanced converged voice, video, data, social media and content value ... See all stories on this topic »

4 Years In, The Facebook Platform Is Much Different AllFacebook Yesterday, Facebook reached the fourth anniversary of the Facebook platform, marking a major milestone for the now global social network. When the Facebook platform first launched in 2007, the site had a little over 10 million users at the time. ... See all stories on this topic »

Twitter acquires popular client TweetDeck CNET And Dodsworth expects TweetDeck to continue to support multiple social network platforms. "The reality of it is that TweetDeck usage has been heavily Twitter-based with the external services not heavily used but acting more as a value-add for our users... See all stories on this topic » CNET

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Jumps On Twitter Bandwagon Financial-Planning.com A little more than a week after co-leading social networking site LinkedIn's spectacular initial public offering, the nation's largest retail brokerage got a jump on wealth management competitors UBS, Wells Fargo and Bank of America Merrill Lynch by ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook's Zuckerberg Says Music, TV Are Social Frontiers Bloomberg ... “social” through the website, the world's largest social network. These “media experiences” probably will follow the path of computer games, which have been transformed by the Facebookplatform, Zuckerberg said at the EG8 technology forum in Paris. ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify Forbes (blog) The service will include a function that lets Facebook users listen to music simultaneously with their friends over the social network, one of the sources said. The partnership is another indication of how Facebook is moving towards becoming a hub for ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes (blog)

PeerCase Brings Social Networking to the Cancer Care Community PR Newswire (press release) ... social networking in a secured environment, PeerCase facilitates enhanced patient care by unleashing the power of the collective knowledge, experience and expertise in the oncology community. PeerCase is available in multiple platforms and provides ... See all stories on this topic »

Blogs 1 new result for social network platforms

Privacy and Security on Social Networks | Beth's Blog By Beth Some social network platforms, like Facebook, make assumptions about your privacy intentions. Some assume that you want to share your information publicly and this is reflected in the the “default” settings which are overly complex. ... Beth's Blog - http://www.bethkanter.org/

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Appbistro Blog, How Facebook Places Can Help Your Business

Image via WikipediaFor the past year or so, geo-location has been all the rage. Foursquare and Gowalla have swept the smartphone universe in the process.

What a simple concept: tell your friends that you’re at a specific location and get rewarded in the process.

Rewards, you say? Yes, rewards.

Some businesses give offers and coupons to visitors who “check-in” at their location, including the amazing order of chips, salsa and queso that I indulged in last week at Chili’s.

But where has Facebook been in all of this? Sure, you can post to Facebook from Foursquare, but why has the Social Network champion not been championing this concept?
Well, luckily you can stop asking that now, because Facebook released Facebook Places on August 19th.

This could be an incredible opportunity for those of you who admin a Facebook Fan Page. We at Appbistro hope you utilize this opportunity to it’s fullest. Here are two very important tips to help you seize the day.

Appbistro Blog, How Facebook Places Can Help Your Business

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