Everybody knows the popular social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Linked In, however, the amount of tools and resources available to you is rather extensive. Below you’ll find a comprehensive list of Social Media Tips, Guides, Plugins, Platforms, Analytics, Tools, Apps and other great Social Media resources.
Tips & Guides
Mashable – Twitter Lists, Resources & How-To
http://mashable.com/2009/01/01/twitter-user-types/
How To Blog: A Beginnerʼs Blog Publishing Guide
10 Things to Do Before Launching Your Blog
Writing for Bloggers – A Quick Guide on Style, Substance and Strategy
http://kendallcopywriting.co.uk/2009/01/06/writing-for-bloggers-in-blog-form/
Creating a web presence – why bother?
http://kendallcopywriting.co.uk/2009/01/14/creating-a-web-presence-why-bother/
Search engine optimization – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization
SEOmoz | 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/21-tactics-to-increase-blog-traffic
How to optimize website images from a SEO perspective
http://blog.avangate.com/optimize-website-images/
The Bloggerʼs Guide to SEO
http://www.seobook.com/bloggers
Methods of website linking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_website_linking
Linkbaiting for Fun & Profit
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/linkbaiting-for-fun-profit/2541/
Web analytics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_analytics
My list of tips for getting the most out of Twitter
http://www.joshrussell.com/2008/10/07/my-list-of-tips-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/
Free Twitter backgound template download
http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/free-resources/download-free-l-twitter-background/
ʻMemeʼ explained on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
Know Your Meme
What Social Media Is and What Social Media Is Not
http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/01/what-social-media-is-andwhat-social.html
List of social networking websites on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
Google Social Search Launches, Gives Results From Your Trusted “Social Circle”
Boolean Searching on the Internet
http://www.internettutorials.net/boolean.asp
Tools & Analytics
Google Alerts
Technorati
FeedBurner
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home
Google Analytics
http://www.google.com/analytics/
Woopra
Social Mention
Trending Tools
About Ask.com: IQ
http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtml
Digg
Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
Popular Bookmarks on Delicious
Twitter Search
Yahoo! Buzz Index – Todayʼs Top 20 Overall Searches
http://buzzlog.buzz.yahoo.com/overall/
Tweetmeme
WordPress Plugins & Themes
WordPress › WordPress Plugins
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
WordPress › WordPress Themes
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
ShareThis
Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam « Akismet
All In One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin
http://semperfiwebdesign.com/portfolio/wordpress/wordpressplugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
Audio Player WordPress plugin
Challenge
http://lordchaos.dominatus.net/wordpress-plugin-challenge
Favicon Manager
http://www.digitalramble.com/favicon-manager-wordpress-plugin/
FeedBurner
http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/05/feedburner_adopts_twoyearold_r.php
Google Analyticator
http://cavemonkey50.com/code/google-analyticator/
Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpressplugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/
PXS Mail Form
http://www.phrixus.co.uk/pxsmail
Simple Tags
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags/
SRG Clean Archives
http://www.idunzo.com/projects/clean-archives/
Wordbook Facebook
http://www.tsaiberspace.net/blog/2007/07/29/wordbook/
WordPress Automatic Upgrade
http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-12-release.html
WordPress Database Backup
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup
Wptouch: WordPress on iPhone
http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/
FaceBook Share
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-share-new/
Facebook Connect
http://www.sociable.es/facebook-connect/
TweetMeme
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme/
Topsy
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/topsy/
The Social Web
Delicious
Last.fm
Flickr!
FriendFeed
MySpace
Google Buzz
Digg
Seesmic
Stumbleupon
Ning – Create Your Own Social Network
Squidoo
Diigo – Social Bookmarking
Social Tools & Apps
Ping FM – Update multiple Social Networks at once (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc…)
Amplify – Another really useful tool for updating muliple Social Media Networks
Brizzly – Twitter web app
Where is your Username registered
KnowEm – Check your username
Alltop, all the top stories
Topsy
Firefox web browser
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
j.mp - URL shortner with stats
TinyURL – URL shortner
Listorious
Yoono – Firefox Plugin to Monitor all Social Media Accounts
Flock – Social Web Browser
The Conversation Prism – Monitor multiple Social Media channels
http://theconversationprism.com/
Twitter Tools
Our guide to Brand monitoring on Twitter – 5 top tools
http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/blog/twitter-brand-monitoring-tools/
Our list of 50+ apps for Twitter marketing
http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/free-resources/twitter-marketing-best-twitter-apps/
Mr. Tweet – Your Personal Networking Assistant!
Hootsuite
Twitterfall – a way of viewing the latest ʻtweetsʼ of upcoming trends
Seesmic – Twitter & FB app
Twitterrific – Mac & iPhone app
http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific
TweetDeck – Twitter, FB & MySpace app
http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/
Power Twitter – Firefox Add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9591
Twuffer – schedule tweets for later!
TweetBeep
Jim Grygar’s list of 60 Twitter tools
http://jimgrygar.byethost12.com/60-twitter-tools-to-track-tweets/
Monitter
More great resources like this can be found at silicon beach training a UK based social media training company