Sunday, February 21, 2010

How to Win Friends and Influence Followers

What are your two favorite (or newest) Social Media Resources?

With the current "blogging frenzy," most of us who are interested in "Social Media" are literally bombarded with new ideas on a daily basis.

Currently (with the goal of becoming one myself) I am in the process of aligning myself with literally thousands of "Social Media Experts" mostly on Twitter, Facebook and (most recebtly) Google Buzz.

Through these "experts," (the ones with the most friends, followers, links and informative blogs) I am gaining access to literally hundreds of groups, links, applications, websites, blogs, gadgets, widgets, etc . . . .

Thus far, my two favorite (free) resources/tools are:

1) Social Oomph http://www.socialoomph.com/ a service that helps you "Find Quality Friends to Follow Using Keywords" (among other things) and,

2) Tweepi http://tweepi.com/ which (among other things) helps you (quickly and easily) "Flush users that do not follow you back."

With these two services alone I have effectively doubled my Twitter Followers and Facebook Friends within the first week of trying them.

These newly following Social Media "Experts" (Most with 5,000-100,000+ followers) have provided a wealth of direct links to other services, many of which I am currently testing and comparing (to utilize and share with my own friends and followers on future posts). And most of them are following me back!

Please reply below about your thoughts on these (or your own) "Top Two" favorite (or newest) Social Media Resources. Thanks @rcl4rk

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