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My Top 5 Social Media Tools of 2008

December 31, 2008 · Comments

By David Finch

By David Finch

Let’s face it, we’re all looking for that “special” tool or application that will make our job or online experience easier and more productive. Every year there are a list of tools and services that are released to help make this happen. However, the challenge is weeding out what works and what doesn’t.

Over the past year, I’ve added some innovative tools to my social media toolbox. Here are my favorites as well as those that I continue to go back to.

My Top 5 for 2008:

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Blog Catalog Launches Nifty New Search Widget

November 11, 2008

It’s easy to get caught up in new sites and technology in the social media space and forget about those that have been around a while. More often than not, those old, trusted friends have continued to innovate and are still developing noteworthy functionality and uses. You just get caught up in the new shiny [...]

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Calgoo Brings Permission-Based Advertising To Your Calendar

October 30, 2008

As if consumers need another place to see ads, a tool called Calgoo is now offering the world’s first in-calendar marketing platform that will essentially put advertiser’s messages for events, sales and so on right there on your calendar. But hold on! While the tone of that sentence might lead you to believe it’s just [...]

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Photrade Makes Photography Contests Easy

September 22, 2008

Photrade, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based photo sharing and monetization site for photographers of all kinds, has unveiled an interesting tool for users that makes conducting online photo contests easy. With ad-supported or white-label options, Photrade’s contest creation tool is intuitive, easy to use and so easy to set up it takes about two minutes to build [...]

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LeadVine Is Crowdsourcing For Business Leads

September 1, 2008

My friend Ben Thomas is pretty smart. Founder of SalaryScout.com, PoliticalCrunch.com, Macmeter.com and the first true social media group in Louisville — LouisvilleGeekDinner.com — Ben says he likes to, “make stuff.” He makes some pretty good stuff.
A little over a week ago, Ben launched a new venture that puts a social media spin on both [...]

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Business Websites Just Got Smarter, Cooler With Podcast-Serving Widget

August 14, 2008

I’ve been pitched story ideas on about 100 different widgets in the last six months. This widget does that. That widget does this. Rarely do I write about them because few of them do anything different. It’s just the same crap in different mascara. Besides, I’m starting to grow tired of the word, “widget.”
However, I [...]

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MetroMojo Unveils New Features, White Label Solutions

August 8, 2008

I spent the morning recently with Keith Ringer and Chuck Burke of MetroMojo.com. The parent company of LouisvilleMojo.com, one of the first, and to my knowledge most successful, local social networks, MetroMojo has repositioned itself as a white label social networking solution. The biggest difference between MetroMojo and others? Proven scale and long-term experience.
With LouisvilleMojo.com [...]

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Make Signal From Noise With AideRSS

July 16, 2008

AideRSS gets some kudos today. Not just for providing a service that helps bloggers determine which of their posts are the most engaging. Not just for building out a Google Reader plugin (plus integration with Newsgator and others) that lets you weed out the less relevant or active posts and cut down the noise to [...]

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Five Reasons Plurk Is Better Than Twitter And Vice-Versa

June 18, 2008

I can’t stand new social media tools. Actually, that’s not true. I just don’t like it when people jump on the bandwagon of something that winds up being just another empty social network and password I can never remember when I want to finally go and close down the account.
So just in time for everyone’s [...]

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FileDropper.com Claims Lead For File Hosting, Transfer

May 3, 2008

Another large file hosting and transfer service popped up recently. My friend Jay has started FileDropper.com which offers free file hosting and/or transfer up to five gigabytes (5GB). By signing up for a small subscription fee, you can jack that up to 50 gigs ($5 per month) or a ridiculous 250 gigs ($10 month). Certainly, [...]

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Twitter, The Media And A Milestone

May 2, 2008

Twitter has become a new method of communication for many of us in the social media, technology and even marketing space. And, while the microblogging service hasn’t exactly gone mainstream, fascinating stories are emerging involving the platform. There are also more and more mainstream media coming to the fold as well. Carlos Granier-Phelps is documenting [...]

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