99 Social Media Sites Business Owners Should Know About

Last week we discussed the top 20 SEO know-it-alls on Twitter. This week we will look at the 99 social media sites all business owners sould know about.

If you do it right and keep it up, social media sites can have an incredible impact on your business. Here are 99 social media sites that are great for business.

1. Facebook - This site is an excellent way to become engaged with your customers. Start a page and start a conversation.

2. Twitter - Convenient and efficient way to let your fans and customers know what you're up to.

3. MySpace - This has definitely lost some popularity with the rise of Facebook and Twitter, but still offers a great platform to keep in touch with your customers.

4. LinkedIn - An extremely professional approach to social networking. This is a spectacular way to meet business contacts and to connect with new potential customers.

5. Digg - The most popular news submission site. Submit your blog posts and digg away!

6. Technorati - This is for avid blog readers and blog owners. Favorite great blogs and blog posts and track the reactions to your blog.

7. StumbleUpon - Another news submission and voting platform that can generate traffic to your web site.

8. Reddit - Vote for news pieces and submit your own.

9. YouTube - YouTube is great for video-friendly companies. No one wants to sit around and watch a guy in a suit go on and on about making money at home in monotone, but if you run an entertainment agency or a record label or something fun, there's always that possibility your videos could go viral!

10. Care2 - For the socially conscious business man or woman. Set up your profile, donate to worthy causes, submit and vote on news pieces, sign petitions and much more.

11. Plaxo - Another very professional approach to social networking. Make new business connections and find new vendors or customers.

12. Mixx - News submission and popularity contest. Recommend what you like.

13. Sphinn - This social news site focuses on search engine marketing and web development. A must if you want to keep on top of SEO strategies.

14. Wikipedia - Create your business' page and add to other pages. You can also join in the dicussionsin the community portal.

15 Newsvine - Seed links to articles, write your own article and discuss already seeded news items.

16. Yahoo! Answers - a crowd-sourced knowledge web site where users ask questions and answer them while earning points and gaining ranks.

17. Monster - Submit your resume to find a job or find a new employee for your business. Monster is the largest job search engine in the world.

18. FriendFeed - Aggregate the feeds from all of your social networking profiles and show your activity in one place.

19. DeviantART - for artists: showcase your art and connect with others.

20. Flickr - A photo sharing social network.

21. Last.fm - Install the software and it will track all the mp3s you listen to on your computer or mp3 player. The music you listen to will show up on your profile in real time, and Last.fm will suggest new music for you based on what you listen to, as well as introduce you to other people who have similar musical tastes.

22. Wordpress - Wordpress is a site where you can set up your own free blog and install widgets, as well as find blogs that interest you.

23. LiveJournal - Livejournal is another free blogging community.

24. Meetup.com - A social network that helps you plan offline meetings based on any common ground.

25. Nexopia - A Canadian social networking site, like a thinner version of Facebook or MySpace.

26. Ning - Create your own social network with Ning as well as join others.

27. OneClimate - a not-for-profit social networking site revolving around the issue of cimate change.

28. Passportstamp- For travelers: record your current location, your past travels and let your network know where you are headed.

29. Plurk - Plurk is a microblogging platform that operates similar to Twitter but with a more literal timeline approach.

30. Tumblr- Tumblr is a great place to start an easy, no-frills blog or to aggregate your other blogs in one place.

31. Xanga - A social network with photoblogging and free blogs.

32. Blogger - Googles free blogging platform. Less functionality than WordPress, but more search engine friendly.

33. Google Friend Connect - A way for users to connect on many different web sites.

34. Ebay - Not only can you sell anything here, but you can also create your own profile and start your own blog.

35. Hi5 - A mini version of MySpace with less spam.

36. Mediafire - Upload and share huge files and photos. Very few user limitations on this site.

37. Skyrock - Set up your profile, start a blog and showcase your original music.

38. Identi.ca - an open source version of Twitter. Almost identical but with a few more features

39. Propeller - A news submission site. Vote for news and connect with like-mined friends.

40. Friendster - Similar to Facebook, although nowhere near as popular.

41. Konnects - Social networking for newspapers and magazines.

42. Ryze - A social network for new entrepreneurs.

43. Xing - As the site says, "Global networking for professionals."

44. Tribe - A social network where you can join "tribes" with like-minds.

45. Collegerecruiter.com - A job search networking site that connects recent grads with jobs and internships.

46. De.icio.us - A social bookmarking platform where you can store your bookmarks and make them public or private. You can also connect with other users to view their bookmarks.

47. Squidoo - Create your own "Lens" centered around your subject of choice.

48. Frappr - Socially networked maps.

49. Google Bookmarks - A place to store your bookmarks.

50. MeetTheBoss - Business excutives use this social network for video conferencing, instant messaging, sms, mail and more.

51. Talkbiznow - A social network for business.. Connect with new customers and vendors.

52. Ecademy - Another social network for professionals. Free and paid versions available.

53. Ziggs - A clean and easy-to-use professional networking service where you can find and post jobs.

54. Small Business Brief - Small business forums with extremely valuable info.

55. FreelanceSwitch - Post jobs and projects and find freelancers who will do it for you.

56. Netparty - Social networking that aims to get people out to business networking events.

67. Gather - A network that revolves around groups with like-minded people.

68. Dopplr - Share your travel itineraries so you can find people in your network who will be near you and you can meet up.

69. TravBuddy - Another travel-related social network that allows you to create blogs, upload photos, and review restaurants, bars, hotels and more.

70. Zorpia - Share photos, blogs, videos and music with your network.

71. Crowdstorm - Crowdstorm is a social shopping site where you can decide what to buy based on aggregated product reviews from a myriad of sources.

72. Kaboodle - A shopping social network where you can find new products based on what your network is buying, store shopping lists and discuss your favorite stores and products.

73. Reesycakes - Another shopping network that helps you make decisions on what to buy.

74. Woot! - a Deal a Day network.

75. Plazes - uses your mobile phone to track where you are and share it with your network.

76. Groovr - Find out what is going on in your community and who is going.

77. Mobicue - Share the content on your cell phone with your network.

78. Zwillow - Networking for real estate.

79. Change.org - Another social network for the socially conscious. Donate to your favorite charity and find jobs in the nonprofit sector.

80. Idealist.org - Find jobs in the non-profit sector.

81. Etsy - Buy and sell handmade items and craft supplies.

82. 43Things - List your goals and find people with similar ones.

83. Esnips - Share content on the web and join a niche group of like-minded people.

84. Clipmarks - Instead of bookmarking a whole article, just save clips of text, video and photos.

85. Diigo - Bookmark and tag web pages, and add sticky notes to them

86. OSOYOU - Social networking for the fashion industry.

87. MUxtape - Coming soon, social networking for bands.

88. Shelfari- A network for book lovers. Create your own book shelf and find others who share your reading tastes.

89. iVillage- A web portal for women with a lot of female-oriented content.

90. Cake Financial - Financial services social network. Share your portfolio.

91. Marketwatch Community - A financial community.

92. Wesabe - From their web site: "Real people dealing with real money issues".

93. CafeMom - A social network for moms.

94. Fark - This is a news commenting community that has a massive amount of traffic coming to it daily.

95. Getsatisfaction - Described as "people-powered customer service", this site is a tech support network.

96. Mister-Wong.com - Another bookmarking site that allows you to connect with other people using it and save your bookmarks both publicly and privately.

97. Theseotree.com - News submission and voting.

98. Wikihow - A wiki network with a massive database of How-To Instructions.

99. Wetpaint - free web sites and wiki hosting service with social networking.

Phew! That took a while, but it was very interesting researching this. I hope you find it just as interesting.

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