Here are 22 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. LinkedIn – An extremely professional approach to social networking. This is a spectacular way to meet business contacts and to connect with new potential customers.
4. Digg – The most popular news submission site. Submit your blog posts and digg away!
5. Technorati – This is for avid blog readers and blog owners. Favorite great blogs and blog posts and track the reactions to your blog.
6. StumbleUpon – Another news submission and voting platform that can generate traffic to your web site.
7. Reddit – Vote for news pieces and submit your own.
8. 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.
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. 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.
11. Wikipedia – Create your business’ page and add to other pages. You can also join in the dicussionsin the community portal.
12. FriendFeed – Aggregate the feeds from all of your social networking profiles and show your activity in one place.
13. Flickr – A photo sharing social network.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. Plurk – Plurk is a microblogging platform that operates similar to Twitter but with a more literal timeline approach.
17. Tumblr- Tumblr is a great place to start an easy, no-frills blog or to aggregate your other blogs in one place.
18. Google Friend Connect – A way for users to connect on many different web sites.
19. Ebay – Not only can you sell anything here, but you can also create your own profile and start your own blog.
20. Xing – As the site says, “Global networking for professionals.”
21. Google Bookmarks – A place to store your bookmarks.
22. Esnips – Share content on the web and join a niche group of like-minded people.

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“ Social media is like teen sex. Everyone wants to do it. Nobody knows how. When it’s finally done there is surprise it’s not better.” Avinash Kaushik, Analytics Evangelist, Google

Ključne rečenice i zaključci iz prezentacije su:

WHY THE F**K SHOULD I CARE one year later* ?
#1 BECAUSE 3 OUT OF 4 AMERICANS USE SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY.
#2 BECAUSE 2/3 OF THE GLOBAL INTERNET POPULATION VISIT SOCIAL NETWORKS
#3 BECAUSE VISITING SOCIAL SITES IS NOW THE 4TH MOST POPULAR ONLINE ACTIVITY—AHEAD OF PERSONAL EMAIL
#4 BECAUSE TIME SPENT ON SOCIAL NETWORKS IS GROWING AT 3X THE OVERALL INTERNET RATE, ACCOUNTING FOR ~10% OF ALL INTERNET TIME
#5 BECAUSE SOCIAL MEDIA IS DEMOCRATIZING COMMUNICATIONS
#6 BECAUSE SOCIAL MEDIA IS LIKE WORD OF MOUTH ON STEROIDS.

# some statistics for social media web site:
- wikipedia 2008 had 4.000.000 articles now 13.000.000
- youtube 100.000.000. videos viewed per day
- 1382 % the monthly grown rate of twitter users from january to february 2009
# 93% of social media users believe a company should have a presence in social media

YOU SEE, IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE A DIALOGUE, NOT A MONOLOGUE.

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Presentacija koju treba videti/pročitati!!
Ključne rečenice i zaključci iz prezentacije su:

• social media is people having conversations online
• social networking sites are officially more popular than porn sites
• some statistics for social media web site:
  - wikipedia almost 4.000.000 articles
  - youtube more than 100.000.000. videos
  - more than 200.000.000 blogs
• 73% of active online users have read a blog
• 39% subscribe to an RSS feedž
• 57% have joined a social network etc.
• only 14% of people trust advertisement but 78% of people trust the recommendations of other consumers

“It`s about conversations, and the best communicators start as the best listeners.”
Brian Solis, Social Media Manifesto