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"Enhance your social media management with HootSuite, the leading social media dashboard. Manage multiple networks and profiles." You can set up tabs and columns to follow different hashtags or information streams.

Great for assembling scrap books of images - settings, moods, characters, inspirations, details, books, authors, booklists, etc. Excellent search engine of collective obsessions. Also addictive.

One of my friends on FB was complaining about the addictive aspect only this weekend. I'm almost afraid to try it!

One for the nonfiction writers especially but everyone will benefit, I think. Snopes debunks urban legends, lies and ridiculous social media campaigns by a team of fact-checkers. It is very fast and pretty reliable.

"Discover and share books you love on Goodreads, the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations" (and obsessively check your reviews and star ratings). Author dashboards, book discussion groups and lists, your library and bookshelves. Where readers are.

I didn't know I had an account until you mentioned it. As it turns out, I told Goodreads a year ago that I'd begun reading Noah Devine's Dharma Punx. I am, to this day, still trying to read Dharma Punx! It is keeping me honest...

Yes, I look like I've been reading the same books for a year, too.

Networking: Learning and sharing online. Toolbox:Twitter, Facebook pages and groups, Goodreads, Hootsuite

"Instantly connect to what's most important to you. Follow your friends, experts, favorite authors, and breaking news." Also, the most valuable professional development and networking tool around.

Local author Kate Holden's Facebook page: updates and news, opinions, and very human conversation.

Official fan page on Facebook for international YA author Cassandra Clare. Sample of a genuine fan page, with lots of competitions, trailers, fan art and fan fic.

An example of a Facebook group. Groups can be open or private, administered by one or several people. There are lots of writing- and book-related Facebook groups, sharing info and updates, working on a project, supporting members.

For Firefox users: an extension that blocks out social media and other attention traps while you work.