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It has been a few years since I had a street bike. Since I sold my motorcycle the motorcycle clubs have become very popular. Going on trips with your motor can be fun during a weekend trip, pack your saddle bags, fill up with fuel and head on to you mountain area mini vacation. Technology sure has made the street bikes more energy efficent and easier to drive. Motorcyclest now have become a community. With all technology it is catching up on the internet with a biker community website, it is a cross between a forum, social network and message board. Sign up and join a internet motorcycle cruiser community, place to share information and our favorite motorcycle or trip photos.

Social media has become a new main stream Internet  and mobile-based tools for sharing, videos, pictures and discussing information among carbon based life forms. The term “social media” most often refers to activities that integrate technology, telecommunications and social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio. This is what makes so much fun . One of the best part is “building” of shared communities, as people share their stories, experiences and knowledge with each other. Social Media in business is referred as user-generated content (UGC) or consumer-generated media (CGM).

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Now that Wells Fargo bank has purchased Wachovia bank, will they keep their employee social media network or will they merge with one of there on. as I have discussed before Wachovia was letting their employees access wikis, blogs and profiles that include photos and information about the roles of employees. Their social network allows users to access a corporate directory for contact information and can note whether an employee is available via instant messaging or phone or is in a meeting.  Employees  also create their own ad hoc wikis and blogs.  Most of the Wikis are set up for processes, policies and products.  For 120,000 people to access this kind of social networking, their staff must be using Web 2.0 tools  and a good rock solid server.  Has anyone heard if these two giants will merge their social networks?? Only time will tell.

Social media optimization (SMO) is a set of activities that are designed to generate publicity with social media, it can get time consuming, online social communities along with community websites. There are many methods of SMO for your site, include adding RSS feeds, you can add a “Digg This” button and others, including blogging and incorporating third party community functions like photo slides and picture galleries or even videos. Social media optimization is a form of search engine marketing.

Social media optimization techniques are connected to viral marketing where word of mouth is created not through your friends or your family but through the use of networking with others in social bookmarking, social micro-blogging via twitter, video presentation and photo sharing websites. Do them all, they will help with each other in generating traffic vis the search engines

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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StumbleUpon is getting more that Lipstick on a pig, so to speak. The new StumbleUpon wll become a toolbar-free version. The old design required thay you download a toolbar for StumbleUpon to function properly. The StumbleUpon homepage is receiving a complete makeover with a new innovative header to the StumbleUpon site.

StumbleUpon now lets us users able to check the most selected articles, top pictures and top videos that the StumbleUpon community has marked for you as popular.

When every a story or article is discovered via someone using StumbleUpon, it will be ranked on a scale 0-5 stars. The numbers are based of course on thumbs up, size of the website reviews, and other parameters. Cool stuff will have to start back using more.

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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.

Yes social media has found its way down to childern. Looks like the social media networks have adapted to a need of young children with their own social networking site. The site MyCBBC has even reached an amazing 100K registered users in four months. That is an amazing figure. One of their focus is for safe social media tools for younger childern. The eight to 11 year olds have been left out of Bebo, Myspace and Facebook. The MyCBBC Network is fitted with tigher safety demands for younger childern. What next 1 to 7 year olds?

Over the years it seams that we have gone from a closed realm of you do your thing to get website traffic and other do their thing to gain visiter traffic.  Now it seam we are all one collective helping each other out with SEO issues, Search Engine Issues, Social media optimization issues with oneline at one time communications.  There seems everyday to be another new social stream site for use to communicate our selves and share news - services with others that make up the communities. Below is a list of Social steam internet user collaboration sites. I suggest we all take part in these top performers and  the many others that make up the social media world.

Social Stream Collaboration 

    * Social bookmarking: Google bookmark, Digg, Technorati, Delicious, Reddit, Yahoo Buzz, Propeller and StumbleUpon

    * Wikis: Wikipedia, PBWiki

    * People Search Stream: Wink

Social Stream Communication

    * Micro-blogging : Twitter - Jaiku - Tumblr - Pownce

    * Social Networking : MySpace, Facebook, Linked : the big three

    * Blogging Platforms: Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad and others

    * Social network aggregation:  FriendFeed

Social Stream Multimedia

    * Photo Streaming: Flickr, Picasa, PhotoBucket, Shutterfly, Webshots

    * Video Streaming: Blip.tv, Google Video, YouTube, MySpaceTV and Vimeo

    * Audio and Music Streaming sites: Last.fm, Pandora, Yahoo Music, imeem

Social Stream Entertainment

    * Virtual worlds:  Second Life

Did I leave any one out, send them to me and I will update

The micro-blogging juggarnaut. Possibly the hottest social micro-blogging site in the internet is world is a free social networking service that allows users to send “updates”, 140 character text-based posts via SMS, thus creating an instant messaging to those that follow certain users. Kinda like announcements. You can post from the web to the Twitter website or an twitter application such as Twitterrific and others enable you to post from computer, laptop or your blackberry. Wait I thought everyone but me has iPhones now. The Twitter site has become very popular in only a few months to most of the top SEO, Marketing and Money Making internet stars, that keep alot of followers watching it. Twitter and SEO… Posting on twitter will get your website or blog more links in Google. Sometimes higher ranking than your regular url posts. Twitter needs to be apart of every SEO, Social Media Marketing and Search Engine Marketing tools See you on Twitter.