Social Networking and Bookmarking: Links 1st Part

Social media provides consumers with opportunities to enhance existing relationships and create new ones. Interaction is a key factor in a network's success, as shown by the success of sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, which encourages user-generated content. While the trend is driven by the younger age groups, consumers of older generations are also being drawn to social media.

This article provides an extensive list of social networking sites, as well as bookmarking sites that can be very useful to your online marketing efforts. Take advantage of the free services that some of them offer to promote your business, products or services.

Social networking is becoming a trend among business owners, turning the whole social networking movement into business networking. The Hispanic Chamber of E-Commerce is about business networking. We have taken some of the social networking concepts into our own business model. We want to promote business networking in this site. We want small business owners to share their knowledge and experience, ask questions, develop business relationships and collaborate in order to create a strong community where everyone can get a piece of the big pie, the digital economy, the market that it is available 24/7.

There are tons of consumers online looking for products and services that are going to be offered at this site. The Hispanic Chamber of E-Commerce is helping to make those products easier to find. We are also going to go beyond the commercial purpose of the organization by promoting education, collaboration and active participation among members.

Social networking and social bookmarking are about sharing and collaboration. They are about virtual communities united by mutual interests.

The Hispanic Chamber of e-Commerce is a virtual community that it is open to every business owner interested in using e-business tools as a way to improve his/her business; small business owners interested in reaching new markets and getting new customers through the Internet; small business owners that are looking for the best cost-effective ways to promote their businesses; small business owners interested in improving their knowledge and much, much more.

The Hispanic Chamber of E-Commerce has a huge responsibility. Our commitment is not questionable. Our goals and strategies are set. We want to help and we will help.
Implementing extensive market research and active social networking, establishing public relations, building strategic relationships with key decision makers, and more...we will become one of the most well known organizations for promoting benefits to organizations, individual members and the community.

We look forward to having you as a Member; we want you to see us as part of your team. Everyone in our organization is committed to this project and because of that, you can expect the best from all of us. We invite you to join this social network of small business owners. Your participation is very important to accomplish the success of this community.

We are going to be posting another extensive list of social networking sites and bookmarking sites within the next days.

To be continued...stay tuned.

Social Networking and Bookmarking links:

My Space http://www.myspace.com/
An international site that offers email, a forum, communities, videos and weblog space.

Digg http://www.digg.com/
Digg is a website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories, in a social and democratic spirit.

StumbleUpon http://www.stumbleupon.com/
StumbleUpon is an internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation system which uses peer and social-networking principles.

Technorati http://www.technorati.com/
Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo. As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.

Twitter http://www.twitter.com/
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

Slashdot http://slashdot.org/
Slashdot, often abbreviated as /.,[1] is a technology-related news website owned by SourceForge, Inc. It features user-submitted and editor-evaluated current affairs news with a "nerdy" slant. Each story on the site has an Internet forum-style comments section attached.

Fark http://www.fark.com/
Fark.com is a community website created by Drew Curtis that allows users to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. It is one of the top 100 English language websites,[1] receiving over 2,500 submissions a day and over 5 million unique visitors per month.

MIXX http://www.mixx.com/
Mixx is a user-driven social media web site that serves to help users submit or find content by peers based on interest and location. It combines social networking and bookmarking with web syndication, blogging and personalization tools.

Newsvine http://newsvine.com/
Newsvine is a community-powered news website which draws original content from its users and syndicated content from mainstream sources such as The Associated Press. Users can write articles, seed links to external content, and discuss news items submitted by both users and professional journalists.

Ximmy http://www.ximmy.com/
Ximmy Social Search Engine - Improve your searching experience!

Ma.gnolia.com http://ma.gnolia.com/
Discover, share and discuss the best of the web.

Diigo http://www.diigo.com/
Diigo is a Social bookmarking website which allows signed users to bookmark and tag web-pages. More exclusively, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page.

Spurl http://www.spurl.net/
Spurl.net is a free on-line bookmarking service and search engine. It allows you to store and quickly access again all the interesting pages you find on the web from any Internet connected computer.

BackFlip http://www.backflip.com
Backflip provides you with a new view of the World Wide Web--your view. Web-based bookmarks under your control and privacy.

BibSonomy http://www.bibsonomy.org/
BibSonomy is a social bookmarking and publication-sharing system. It aims to integrate the features of bookmarking systems as well as team-oriented publication management.

Linkagogo http://www.linkagogo.com/
LinkaGoGo provides instant access to your bookmarks.

Small Business Brief http://www.smallbusinessbrief.com
Fetching the Best Small Business News

Symbaloo http://www.symbaloo.com/us
With Symbaloo, you can now create your own desktop on internet. You will decide which sources and links you will put on your Symbaloo.

JumpTags http://www.jumptags.com/
Jumptags.com is a revolutionary Web 2.0 social bookmarking web service that allows you to collect, store, share and distribute web bookmarks, videos, notes, RSS feeds, contacts, and much much more…

Yahoo! MyWeb http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/
With My Web, you can... Save your bookmarks in a place where you can always find them.

Bookmarks
Google Bookmarks http:// www.google.com/bookmarks
Use Web History to find the sites you visit frequently and bookmark your favorites. Use the Google Toolbar for quick access to your bookmarks and to easily create more.

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/
Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people.

Stay tuned for the second part of this article...