In anticipation of the October launch of his new book, Tribes, marketer Seth Godin created Triiibes, an invitation-only community this summer. Those receiving an invitation were required to pre-purchase the book to gain access to the online community of marketers, which is created on the Ning platform.

How many times have you encountered a web page or blog where something isn’t quite right – the header isn’t showing, there’s a typo or a broken link, maybe there’s that lovely white box with an X in it where the image should be?

Squidoo is a collection of over 700,000 pages created by users about whatever they want the world to know – ideas, recommendations, interests, instructions – basically any topic that they know or care about. Squidoo lens index well and can create traffic to your website, so give it a try.

Goodreads is a really cool site for personal use and the business social networking opportunities are also terrific. Add some books you’ve read from your target market’s industry, write some thoughtful reviews & voila, easy business social networking.

Today thousands of bloggers unite to discuss a single issue – poverty with a goal of raising awareness, promoting discussion and initiating action to help reduce poverty across the globe.

For those of you following this series on the business use of social media and implementing the tips on using social media in your business, this article and research firmly supports your efforts at using social media to interact with the community and promote your brand and business.

Have a few links, photos, or quotes you’d like to share with the world, but not really a lot to say? Then tumble on over to Tumblr and easily express yourself with your own tumblelog.

Are you an entrepreneur, small business owner, self-employed individual or freelancer that wants to get your business noticed and collaborate with other independent business people? Then Biznik may be the social network you’ve been looking for.

The first word that comes to mind with Issuu is “awesome.”  Issuu is a free online publishing site that allows users to convert documents into interactive online publications and then embed the documents into websites or blogs.   The document is presented in an interface so realistic it feels as if you are thumbing through a magazine or [...]