Social Media - Links and Resources

A link list of social media sites and examples:


Intro:
A clever introduction to social media - http://www.vimeo.com/1083838


Feedback Examples:

• eBay - http://www.ebay.ca/
• Amazon - http://www.amazon.ca/

Social Bookmarking:

• Digg - http://www.digg.com/
• del.icio.us - del.icio.us
• reddit - http:www.reddit.com/
• StumbleUpon - stumbleupon.com

Blogs:

• BoingBoing - http://www.boingboing.net/
• Dooce - http://www.dooce.com/
• Lifehacker - http://www.lifehacker.com/
• Fugly Horse of the Day - fuglyhorseoftheday.blogspot.com
• Zen Habits - http://www.zenhabits.net/
• Daily Coyote http://dailycoyote.blogspot.com/
• Winnipeg Love & Hate - http://winnipeglovehate.blogspot.com/
• The Happiness Project www.happiness-project.com/
• Technorati = "World Live Web" - http://www.technorati.com/

Blogging Tools

• Blogger - http://blogger.com/
• WordPress - http://wordpress.com/
• Vox - http://vox.com/
• Weebly - http://weebly.com/

Content Distribution:

• Squidoo - "lens" http://www.squidoo.com/ (see example: http://www.squidoo.com/adopt-a-dog)
• Tumblr - "tumblelog" http://www.tumblr.com/ (see example: http://147xxxx.tumblr.com/)

Social Networking:

• Facebook - (see example - Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
• LiveJournal
• MySpace
• YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/
• Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/
• Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/

Be Careful!

• BAD: Target misses the mark - more info
• GOOD: Southwest Airlines employees blog - http://www.blogsouthwest.com/