Twitter has rolled out Twitter Lists for organizing the people you follow into manageable lists.  Announced a few weeks ago and still in beta, the feature enables Tweeters to create both public and private lists of people they are following. Twitter Lists: A Welcome New Feature As we wrote a while back, as you follow more [...]

sezWho, who had aspired to be the universal profile service for social media sites, has called it quits.   Following in the footsteps of other recent social media sites, such as Furl, sezWho sent eMails to users stating: We wish all those at sezWho the best as they move on to other endeavors.

A new study shows that marketers are slowly making the transition to social media marketing with 63% stating they will increase their social media marketing spend in 2009. clipped from www.emarketer.com Let’s talk about budgets. It took a while. Even though tens of millions of users were flocking to social media sites every day, most [...]

WeFollow is a new user powered Twitter directory by Digg’s Kevin Rose.  With a sleek interface and #hashtag directory, it is catching on fast. Add Yourself to the We Follow Twitter directory We Follow lists the most popular Twitterers by categories created with #hashtags.   Adding yourself is simple:  Sign in to your Twitter account, [...]

Considering this is my demographic, I found this to be quite interesting.  But even more so, this study, reported by eMarketer.com, once again supports the importance of adding social media marketing to the marketing mix.

Social bookmarking site, Ma.gnolia, puts the social in social bookmarking providing an online venue to “Discover, Share and Discuss the best of the web.”

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]