Virtual tips for the savvy business owner!

You’re already Twittering, Facebooking, using LinkedIn, but there are hundreds of other online social networking tools available to you to use. How to choose between them? As we discover new technologies, we will bring them to you, but in the meantime we’ve listed a broad assortment of social media productivity tools for you to consider.

Ning

Founded in 2004 by Marc Andreessen (of Netscape fame), Ning users create and join Ning Networks. The idea is to bring people together to share interests and passions and together explore new ideas and meet new people. Classroom 2.0 is a a Ning social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies for education. Apple Certified Professionals bring together that group of professionals to learn together. Join an existing Ning Network or create a new one of your own with your specific goals in mind. Its growing fast with more than 1.5 million networks created and more than 33 million users. Are you a life or business coach interested in networking with your peers to gain new insights? There are several groups for you to consider joining.

Digg

This is a social bookmarking platform that allows you to find great content that you might not find in a traditional search. Content is discovered, shared and voted on by users, so the most popular (and likely most useful and interesting) rises to the top, with the most popular reaching the front page for millions to see. The service was designed to provide a tool for people to use to create an online community in order to discover and discuss topics they’re interested in.

SlideShare.net

This is the world’s largest presentation sharing community. Users upload presentations and slideshows to share with a group privately or to post for everyone to see. From PowerPoint presentations and Microsoft Word documents to PDFs, you can gain greater exposure for your presentations and develop a community of users around a theme.

EventsListed.com

This site is used by huge media conglomerates to promote concerts and by solopreneurs promoting free teleseminars. You can create an event on this site for a physical event like a workshop or a virtual event like a teleseminar. You can even create an event for product launch of a physical or digital product (an ebook). Create buzz by creating a pre-launch event, a launch event, and a post-launch event. EventsListed.com is a social networking site where you build a fan base who you promote your events to and who in turn promotes to their fan base.  It’s viral marketing in action. We will cover all of the essential details of this social networking and marketing opportunity in a future post, so stay tuned!

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