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Jonathan Bishop is the Technical Media Specialist at Magicomm, LLC in Amesbury, MA. He specializes in the understanding and developing of web 2.0 technologies.

Favorite Social Media Sites

Below is a list of all the social networks I use and what I think about them. At the end I will list my personal favorites and i invite you all to publish links to your own profiles below.

Ziki.com - I like this because it gives me free personal advertising. I think they spend like 10 bucks a month per person. Free being my favorite part

Twitter - This one is cool because by following certain people i keep up to date on trends in the marketplace

BlogCatalog - I use for getting people to both my blog and my company’s blog. Its also a cool place to meet other bloggers,

Digg - I use as my general news service and i follow 1 friend at the moment, hopefully more will develop

LinkedIn - A great professional network. Bad thing about it is there are not alot of communication opportunities between networkers besides a Q&A section

YouTube - Video Uploading site. Could be great for viral marketing but theres so much competition out there its hard

Jyte - Fun community full of free thinking OpenID enabled humans where you make claims about things. Not so good for advertising i guess but i think its addicting

gooruze.com - This site is good for Internet Marketers looking to give back to the community and actually learn. The site is spam free and I would appreciate it if it stayed that way :)

Wink - this is an interesting site in that it collects all of your social networking profiles into one page and users can search a master database to find all of your pages.

ning - here you can create your own social networks. this could be great for establishing your brand or company is leaders within your industry if you can develop a large enough following.

Facebook - one of the first biggens. It started off for colleges and now can be used by anyone.

Myspace - other than friendster this was probably the first biggen. In my opinion it is too loaded with spam.

MyBlogLog - youll see the widget for this site on a lot of blogs. This site is very similar to BlogCatalog however i don’t think it has as much activity

Orkut - Google’s version of a social network

FriendFeed - this site brings all of your feeds across multiple networks together.

Plaxo - This is an excellent resource to network and share. The site allows you to share links, messages, pics and more. It also displays all of your feeds as a “pulse”.

* My favorites are currently gooruze.com, plaxo, and twitter.

Please comment and add your own favorite networks and/or your profile links

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5 Responses to “Favorite Social Media Sites”

  1. Anonymous Says:

    A very nice list of sites.

  2. Mitch Says:

    great overview, thanks

  3. Jackie Bayer Shervington Says:

    Thanks for mentioning gooruze Jon. And thanks for a great list.

  4. John DeCesaro Says:

    I would add zookoda.com. It is a great tool for turning your blog feed into an e-newsletter for those readers who still don’t utilize RSS or reader services.

    Nice list.

  5. no imageElizabeth (Who am I?) Says:

    Thanks for linking to this on the Ning discussion thread. I really like the concise summaries you have provided for these networking sites. I’ll probably continue to stick with Twitter as well.

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