Revitalize Your Social Skills

So you have a Facebook page, a MySpace page, and a Twitter account – think you’re on top of the Social Media game?  Here are a bunch of up and coming networks that may give our go-to sites a run for their money. Whether you’re interested in a specialized area or just want a place to keep all of the fun sites you visit categorized and easy to access in one place – there’s something for everyone here.  

Delicious (Delicious.com)

Use this free social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. Delicious is the place to collect and showcase your passions from across the web. Save what you like - videos, pictures, tweets, blog posts, or articles - on topics you enjoy and compile them into one themed stack for easy sharing. To get started, drop the Delicious bookmarklet in your browser bar and use it to add websites to themed stacks. Personalize each link with your comments and invite friends and colleagues to contribute their own links as well. You can keep your stack private, or, when it’s ready to share, publish your stack and help others discover your finds.Stacks can be about anything you’re interested in - your favorite cookie recipes, how the federal budget works, or the world’s most atrocious sweaters.

Digg

(Digg.com)

This site builds lists of popular stories being shared across the web. Every story has a “Digg” button which also shows the number of people who have indicated that they like or ‘dig’ that story. The number of ‘diggs’ a story collects over time can affect how that story spreads and gains in popularity.

Fark

(Fark.com)

Fark is a community website created by Drew Curtis that allows members to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. As of June 2009, the site boasts approximately four million unique visitors per month, which puts it among the top 100 English language websites. The site receives over 2,500 story submissions per day and approximately 100 of them are publicly displayed on the site, spread out over the main page and tabs (Entertainment, Sports, Geek, Politics and Business).

StumbleUpon

(stumbleupon.com)

StumbleUpon is a discovery engine (a form of web search engine) that finds and recommends web content to its users. Its features allow users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos that are personalized to their tastes and interests using peer-sourcing and social-networking principles.

Mixx

(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.

Reddit

(Reddit.com)

Reddit is a social news website where the registered users submit content, in the form of either a link or a text "self" post. Other users then vote the submission "up" or "down," which is used to rank the post and determine its position on the site's pages and front page..

Technorati

(Technorati.com)

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. The name Technorati is a blend of the words technology and literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism.

LIBRARIAN’S CHOICE: Pinterest  (Pinterest.com)
Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes.

 

Best of all, you can browse pinboards created by other people. Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests.