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if you are like alot of internet folks you might have heard of  Twitter. Twitter is a way to communitcate with others on the net along with getting out a message or information that is of interest to you and to others. Now there is tools to help you get feed back on your Twitter account. These tools will give you the “ranking” in different ways of your Twitter account, these tools are promoting the use of  Social Media accounts to be taken seriously in marketing and business.

Twitter Grader and Twinfluence are two of the top tools for grading your Twitter account.

The Twitter Grader will base the score on the number of people that follow you, power of your network of followers, hmmm the pace of your updates and how complete the date is in your profile.

Twinfluence will break your Twitter ranking into the reach, social capital, velocity, and something call Centralization. Centralization measures how dependent your reach or your ability to influence followers who have a large Twitter following.

Online conferences have become big business after 9/11. This was the time that business was readjusting its travel of it’s executive for protection and cost savings. Now with high fuel costs flight and vehicle travel has boasted webinars, seminars and video conference calls for businesses to stay competitive with other business with cost savings. With these service be such a big cost savings, in comes providers of these services for businesses meetings. A video conferencing service provider for business-to-business online meetings is www.nefsis.com .  Nefsis is backed by the WiredRed Corporation providing secure real-time communications for over 10 years using state-of-the-art equipment. Because of High fuel tele-conference is here to stay.

Some thing cool is a visual social network where you can check to see how members of the network is connected. Webbr shows all connected visully via images of users instead of viewing lists. Webbr’s social network is developed to give you insite of the visual future. Webbr’s members can chat live and see update of connected users by groups with a visual map. This is what they are calling Web 3.0 or semantic.

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The folks a Twellow have created a people directory untilizing the micro-blogging Twitter. You can got to Twellow, look for your Twitter ID and you popup. Click on the Claim this profile, enter your Twitter password and you are added. Twellow has sections that tell you who has recently claimed profiles and recently updated bios.

I can see Twellow become a more useful social networking tool that helps you to find people on Twitter by category. Category can help you find like minded folks or bite my tongue market to a category of Twitters. Twellow even will help you connect with certain professions by finding people then see if there are mutual follows. This is starting to look like marketing 101.

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I topped 50 posts yesterday. Working on 50 more before the end of the year.  I have been able to get my Alexa traffic below 700K. I think that is ok.  I will hope for better.

I have noticed that there are alot of new blogs focusing on Social Networking and Social Media, ok it is more like Social Marketing.  Anyway, there is a large amount of folks that is pushing social media stream and optimization.  It is looking like SEO vs SMO is going on as we speak.  By know means am I knocking Social Marketing it is marketing and the new social type tools have make this easy for the folks just getting on the internet marketing bandwagon.  The Social Marketing tools have enabled you to get your blog or site quicker in the search engines. Man I wish I had this kind of search engine response just 5 years ago.

Social Marketing is taking over the internet search engines by providing more links from your blog that ever before. Just do a search on your domain without the .com extension and you will see all the links back to your site.  In not to far out the extension will be meaningless to the search engines, unless it has started all ready.  My suggestion would be to keep your URL 15 characters or under, due to the fact the social sites have limited us to this number. Also working on making all you logins on all the social sites match you URL name. Give that a try and check Google search everyday and watch your numbers grow.

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Need a web desktop that will let you store your favorite photos, all your videos and even your music and store all three up to 10 GB of disk storage. The web desktop from MySites, will also allow you to embed your items in your blog, website sharing via direct links to any of your media items. The MySites sharing of your media items with others is worth the price for developing your blog or website into the world of social marketing. I see this progressing forward with more outfits providing the same type of service.

One of the main parts of Social media is hosting. The traits that a web hosting outfit to have for your social media marketing pursuits are affordability, reliability, up time and techical support. Tech support is the one I find most important. But customer satisfaction can be the key to picking a good Web Hosting Provider, Webhostingrating.com provides lists and specifications on the Top web hosting providers rated by budgets, blog, forum hostiing, unix, linux, windows hosting, php, e-commcerce, reselling and dedicated hosting. Like a who’s who in the web hosting provider world. As consumer it is nice to have some one providing the information to help us look out for our social marketing internet business.

There is a new intelligent social search engine in town. This social search engine that enables you to find, experience and benefit from the wealth of information that has been created and referenced in your social world of you and your friends only. This Search Engine is Delver. Delver’s mission is to enable you to discover the collective wisdom of your social contacts.

Think of your contacts and your online activities as a network  of knowledge and information from your blogs, videos, reviews, articles, websites, and music. Delver indexes all that shared knowledg of you and your friends  media, opinions, and activities, delivering search results that are relevant to you.

Yes it is true. Google has come out with a new browser. The Google browser is call Chrome, the Google browser is in Beta.  Google Chrome browser was leaked yesterday on Shoemoney.  Today the Google servers must be on overload.  I was able to download  the browser today with ease and install, very quick download.

The Google browser seems very light and worked really well. The tabs at the tops  I like. The browser seemed a little slow, or maybe it was the sites that I was visiting.  The one thing that I did not see was the Google Tool bar. Interesting.  Key missing was a tool type bar of any kind.  Over all for their first try is is very well written.  Track me on Twitter for all of the features that are available on Google Chrome.  About ten posts on the browser.  Download the Google Chrome brower here

Tonight the servers are very slow, no wonder everyone is coming home from work and cannot wait to get ahold of the new Browser. But wait Google has been spending millions of dollars on FireFox, Now they have their own, what will happen next.  We shall see.

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Micro-blogging is a form of blogging that will allows you to write brief text updates and publish them on micro-blog websites. Posts are viewable for public consumption or make them private for a select fews. Some have even go as far use these as a mini-newsletter or a latest news update.  Your micro-post can be submitted, by web, text messaging, third party posting providers, instant messaging or via email.  This has become a challenger to some types of blogging. One micro-blogging happenings that stands out was the guy overseas that was texting to his twitter account and told his boss he was going to be arested and where he was at. This enabled his employer go read is Twit posts to get him out of jail and to the local Amercian embassy. Saved via twitter.  

Along with Twitter, there several others to mention Jaiku, Tumblr, Pownce and Fazr. All should be part of your Social Media Marketing took kit.

These Micro-blogging sites allow users the ability to share links, events and news. Some cool things about todays mico-blogs is that they are developed with an  open platform  in mind to allow the  third party developers to build applications on top of them.