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Social media allows for an immediate way to interact and engage with people and companies online. There are the obvious sites that allow for social networking, but social media done right can aspire to be so much more. We thought we'd highlight three notable Twiistup showoffs who are doing big things with social media.

The battle over your website's community wages on. Not to be outdone by Facebook Connect and its many great implementations, Google Friend Connect, which previously tacked on Twitter integration, is now getting a bit more social.

General beginner article about social bookmarking

Classic social media blunders by adults.

The article is a great example of the debate surrounding the use of social networking in schools.

Article discusses the controversy pertaining to whether schools should ban social networking sites or teach students how to use the sites appropriately.

Namechk is a new web application, that help users to find an username over 84 websites with less than 8 sec. This is amazing user don't need to got to each website to check availability of the preferd username. Namechk brings complete solution on checking for username availability is various social media and bookmarking websites.

In the past years communication and way to communucate changes dramatically. The advent of the social and mobile web has made it easy to connect to large groups of people. Web technologies are used to connect millions of people online. This eases the sharing information simpler. Following the Social media smashers Twitter and FaceBook, It's tome now to micromessagging service from Quub, In this fast moving world stay connected over millions of people is a real tough one. To effectively deal with maintaining so many connections, frequent status updates have emerged as a popular method of staying in contact.

I usually had a big problem on handling more social media website account. I think most of the users come across the same problem. Recently i had a chance to hear about Pixelpipe. On the very first look i really amazed about the features. Initially this site used to post your digital pictures, videos, and audio files to a growing number of different services with only a few clicks. This site seems to be similar as ping.fm, which allows post to text based messages.

Finding great new music can be the most rewarding experience, but sometimes the effort that goes into music discovery often thwarts even the most determined of us. Pandora is great for listening to music online, but without having any foresight or direct say over upcoming tracks, it's certainly not the best there is if you're looking to achieve playlist perfection.

In the past few years personal branding has been discussed exhaustively throughout the Net. The difference between today and over ten years ago when it was first mentioned by Tom Peters, is the rise of social technologies that have made branding not only more personal, but within reach.

In my previous post, Personal Branding 101, we discussed the importance of branding in this web 2.0 world, as well as how to discover and create your brand. In Personal Branding 102 we'll discuss how you'll communicate your personal brand, using social media tools and proven marketing tactics, and then how to sustain your future growth by performing brand maintenance.

This is another virtual sharing library, can be placed within a website and shows covers of books - great for school library page

Social sharing library that can be embedded on site. Good for school library website.

Social networking tool that provides "feedback." RateMyTeachers.com enables parents and students to rate high school teachers on easiness, helpfulness and clarity.

Awesome MIT press article on adult perceptions of the internet and social media vs. those of students, and the power relationships entailed therein.

If you already think social networks give you a bit more information than you want about some people, TrueScoop's new Facebook application might make you cringe. It's completely free public records search, a service that lots of websites charge for, usually so potential employers can do background checks.

If you're a small business or a one man/woman show, how are you promoting your business online? On the flip side, if you're looking for a consultant, photographer, or a web design company, where do you start your search?That's where Qapacity jumps in; they're hoping to be the middle-man for professionals and service seekers, adding a few unique touches to make the process painless on both sides.

Social networking site for educators.

This site lists some bookmarking sites. Twitter is number one! Ah the power of Twitter.

It is interesting to see how many of these sites we have already used in 611. I wonder if we'll hit all 15??

A great follow-up to the Common Craft YouTube video in the resources for week 4.