Social Media Marketing; 108 Sites that don't suck

A while ago as part of my research into Social Media Marketing, I rooted through some lists of various social sites to really see what there was out there. If you remember the recent, Value of SMM post, one of my concerns is the ability of SMM to be universal in it's application. Now there are obviously thousands of social sites out there of all shapes and sizes... problem is that many are sparsely populated and unlikely to be of much value to user and marketer alike.

So I decided to start a master list of Social Media/Networking type sites that seemed to have some life happening. Once I was looking at it I thought I might as well share it with ya'll, (isn't sharing the best part about being social?) ..... This list is by no means exhaustive, but I had to go through lists containing 100’s to get to the real meat. So enjoy and come back often as I shall do my best to keep it relevant.

If you’d like to suggest one, (leave a comment) - make sure it actually has a few members or is on the rise… a list with garbage is useless. Also, if there is a site on this list you feel should be nuked, let me know as well…

Without further ado, here are some locales to suit almost any occasion in your programs;

Social Networking

Social Book Marking

Social Media

Multimedia

YouTube Flickr Foto Log Flixster PhotoBucket

MetaCafe Veoh WebShots Video Swift Xanga

Blogging

Technorati Bloglines MyBlogLog BlogMarks Blog Hop Blogmarks

BlogPulse IceRocket Kinja TailRank Live Journal BlogMemes

Social/Meta Search

Mahalo Ambedo PreFound Agent 55 Sproose URL.com

Gravee Oozm Folkd iRazoo AfterVote Earth Frisk

 

 

Niches

 

Business Networking

LinkedIn  Ekaweeka Small Business

Orkut

 

Business and Marketing News

Sphinn Small Business Brief Social Media Today

PlugIM Bad SEO (Dave fave)

Social Shopping

Kaboodle Shoppers Base Agent B Product Clash

All consuming Desires In Boxed Up Style Feeder

Book Club

Library Anything Books Well Read

Chain Reading What should I read next

Other;

Educational/Research Connotea - Wiki Matrix -	Kids Club Penguin - KidLinkz -
Fashion StyleFeeder - Stylehive	Automotive Auto Spies
School Daze My Year Book - Classmates Online	Technology/Computing TweakO - Linux Questions -
Family/Parenting/Lifestyle SK-RT	Video/Web Games Millions Of Games - uGame -
Entertainment BuzzNet - Fan Pop -	Food and Drink Corkd

Anyone want to help and do some short reviews on these? I would have done so, but I am just way too busy at the moment. Be sure to let me know in the comments about any revisions/additions you may have... help is always appreciated :0)

... and stay tuned for gripping conclusion to 'the Value of Social Media Marketing' when we have some guest riders passing along pearls of wisdom towards capturing the essence of working social marketing. Look for it REAL soon...

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• |213.158.196.xxx |2008-03-05 17:31:21 Andy Beard  - Some you missed
  Techmeme
  Megite.com
  
  I might be biased, but I am seeing a good boost from Blogcatalog with the inclusion of the new dashboard, and friendfeed has real promise.
  
  It is not just direct traffic, but the potential for those sources to drive additional links and traffic.
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• |66.79.239.xxx |2008-03-05 18:05:47 Dave
  Hi Andy.... added... 108 sites that don't suck now :0)
  
  I think I was after a list that I could peruse when looking at client projects to try and tighten up the relevance of the campaigns. Targeted traffic and inks are always primo as you know, so the more options available the better.
  
  I have noticed some bump action from BC and also find we get traffic from Bloglines as well (on various properties). Exposure helps on many levels (SEO, SMM, CRM etc..)
  
  Hopefully this list will grow over time...
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• |71.7.63.xxx |2008-03-23 15:26:16 robert  - Another Good One
  Ive seen great results from using Mister-wong.com for social bookmarking.
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• |24.22.210.xxx |2008-04-06 17:02:08 Ted  - A new one that doesn't quite fit your taxonomy
  We've just started a new site that has a lot of similarities with the SMM sites that you listed, but ours is a bit different (pause for laughter, they all say that)
  
  Yearblook is a competition to find each day
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• |24.22.210.xxx |2008-04-06 17:02:50 Ted  - The rest of what I was saying
  Yearblook is a competition to find each day
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• |24.22.210.xxx |2008-04-06 17:03:51 Ted  - Ok, i get it, no apostrophes
  Yearblook is a competition to find the best blog posts of each day. At the end of the year, the 365 best posts (1 from each day) will be published in a book (a real, printed book, you will find it on Amazon).
  
  www.yearblook.com
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• |122.162.250.xxx |2008-12-25 23:20:16 Jhangora  - Social Media Integration
  I guess Social Media Integration is the buzz word these days. Would be great if u cud make a post on the topic. I'll provide a link to this post on my blog post on using Social Nedia to promote blogs. Thanx a lot for the nicely presented info.
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• |68.62.211.xxx |2009-05-25 15:25:59 Brad Mcbride  - Owner
  Whats with non-competitive sites not wanting to exchange links? Is it just that most sites are not run by the webmaster? P.Sp. Twitter is an excellent source for backlinks if you can avoid looking like a spammer.
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