- Photo & Video Sharing
YouTube: A video sharing website that allows users to upload, view, and share video clips. This is a free website that allows free video hosting. Users create "channels" that allow them to share videos tailored to their business message.
Flickr: A photo sharing website that allows users to upload, view and share photos and related media. There is an annual fee associated with this website. Users create profiles and upload albums of images to their account.
- Social News & Social Book Marking
Digg: This is a website that houses news articles and links that are posted by users from many different industries. You as the user can decide whether you think these articles are newsworthy or not. This is a free website that can help generate traffic to your website from news article that you post.
Delicious: A bookmarking tagging site. This allows users to tag, store and share their favorite bookmarks (articles). You have the ability to categorize and view like articles that you and your company may view as interesting.
- Social Networking Sites
Facebook: A social networking site that allows businesses to grow their client base through friends and potential customers. A business can share information through photos, videos, notes and updates.
LinkedIn: A networking site utilized by professional's that allows them to build their contact base. Users have the ability to join industry based groups & encourages involvment in discussions.
Twitter: A microblogging service that uses IM's, SMS or a web interface to update your status. They allow the use of 140-characters, businesses are encouraged to treat these as free press releases.
- Web Site Modifications
Links/Icons: Make sure to add links and icons of all social media pages to your web site.
Quick Contact: Add Quick Contact form to your web site.
Add RSS feeds: Show content from other sources on your web site by pulling a feed from content made available by the publisher.
- Additional Applications
Wikipedia: Add an entry based on your company into Wikipedia.
Google Maps: Allows businesses to pinpooint and mark their location for future searches.
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