Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us is (part of the Yahoo family) one of our favs in social networking sites and also one of the best among SMO sites.

This site allows saving links of favorite articles, sharing them with others while also discovering new sites and articles of interest.

Digg.com

*most used – Most preferred and famous social bookmarking sites, this site has become one of the top names in the field of Social Media!

This site is great to promote: Articles, PR and Information… not just bookmarking or promoting a sites page…

StumbleUpon (C7’s Fav)

StumbleUpon allows rating of various sites, articles, pr etc, which proves useful content for the readers. This site allows discovering new sites and also networking between other stubleuponers.

Technorati.com

This site includes tagging, blogs and anything that is found usefull and interesting, by its members. The site also allows commenting on topics by other members. This site promotes Blog reactions, which are articles or blogs that are connected or linked to your blogs. Your rank or authority in the site is decided, depending on the number of blog reaction links that your blog has.

SMO is only getting bigger… more to come….

So just what is Twitter? I have been asked that, but I have a hard time coming up with an explanation. It’s like mini-blogging, with constant interaction with other Twitter users via the real time updates on the website.

Twitter is social networking, but on a bare bones level. When you sign up for Twitter, you can add information to a basic profile, which includes your username, name, location, one line bio, and a website address, if you have one. When you’re ready to go, you can update Twitter with whatever is going on in your life. Your updates will be archived and display on your own Twitter page, which is http://www.twitter.com/your_user_name. You can choose to make your updates public or protected.

Public: anyone can see what you’re Twittering.
Protected: only those on your friends list (on Twitter this is known as your followers list) can see what you’re Twittering.

Please note that it’s an all or nothing thing with public vs. protected. Everything is public, or everything is protected. There is no in between.

You can update Twitter from the website, from many Firefox extensions, from desktop applications, from your cell phone by sending text messages to 40404, and from your cell phone with the use of mobile applications .

“How does this tie into blogging?” I’ll tell you how. You can use an active Twitter account to generate more traffic to your blog by posting updates of blog entries to it. You can do this manually, and also with the use of blog posting plugins that are available for many blogging platforms (including WordPress).