Widgets for your Site. Made Simple.

http://www.snipperoo.com/login

If you use widgets or want to use widgets to add interesting stuff to your site, Snipperoo lets you collect and use them without hacking code.

http://monicahamburg.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/behold-the-power-of-facebook-for-business/

Monitoring Tools

A whole bunch of ways you can read, subscribe to and monitor blogs.

Bloglines

A great free web-based reader. Also has the ability to sync with your BlackBerry.

Google Reader

Google’s web-based feed reading tool. Some pretty nice features and very easy to use.

Canuck PR Toolbar

A neat little toolbar that installs in Explorer or Firefox. Quick links to top Canada PR, Marketing, Media bloggers with links to other resources and podcasts.

Technorati

The premier search engine for blogs.

Google Blog Search

Google’s blog search tool.

Talk Digger

Helps you find which blogs are linking to other blogs and websites. Just type in the URL and it will show you who is linking. A great way to discover bloggers who are linking to your company’s or clients’ websites.

everyzing

An amazing tool that lets you search a variety of podcasts by keyword and then allows you to listen to the exact moment in the podcast where the word appears. Cool.As of Jan/06, everyzing also searches the audio stream on youtube for keyword mentions.

Analysis Tools

Free tools and paid services that will allow you to put some context around what’s going on in the blogosphere.

Ice Rocket Trends tool

A great free tool that allows you to compare blog buzz across various search terms.

Opinmind

Provides a snapshot of negative vs. positive blog posts. Not an exact science, but still worth a look.

Cymfony

A third-party blog monitoring service. You have to pay for this one.

Nielsen Buzz Metrics

Another third-party service that you have to pay for.

RepuTrace

A very cool online monitoring service that offers both monitoring and analysis.

Interaction Tools

Tools that allow you to easily track your interactions with bloggers.

Co.mments

Lets you track the comments you’ve left on other blogs without having to keep returning to see if they’ve been answered.

Blogging Tools

Want to start blogging? Try any of these. I’m partial to WordPress myself.

WordPress

Easy to use, set up, etc. Lots of add-ins, plug-ins, hacks and customization available.

Typepad

Professional, easy-to-use with lots of plug-ins available. The choice of many top bloggers.

Blogger

The basic entry level platform.

Stats

Sometimes you need a stat or two to make a point to a client or colleague.

Del.icio.us tag “stats”

I save any stats I come across on my del.icio.us.

Miscellaneous resources

Other stuff that may come in handy.

The New PR Wiki

A fantastic resource for everything that has happened and is currently happening with PR and Social Media.

Business Week: Blogs Will Change Your Business

Interesting reading from Business Week from May 2005.

The Economist: Among the Audience

The Economist published several articles on blogging in April 2006 that are worth reading.

TIME.com: Time’s Person of the Year: You — Dec. 25, 2006 — Page 1

In 2006, the World Wide Web became a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter

Feedburner PR network

I created and manage Feedburner’s PR blogger network. It’s an aggregate feed of some of the globe’s top PR bloggers.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3628106

“At what point does a seeding strategy make a viral video just another form of interruptive advertising? Video communities are savvy and notice when brands become too pushy through paid placement.”

As director of content integration at Digitas, Christine works across all brand teams to lead the creative innovation of motion media content. She has a unique and varied set of skills that weaves media, tech, and channel smarts to inform deep interactive experiences for clients such as American Express, Samsung, and IHG.

Advertisers will always have a difficult time playing in the viral space. People want pure entertainment. Even the most minimally branded videos are often rejected.

http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/01/26/omg-a-good-article-about-viral-video-marketing/

Kontraband’s The 7th Chamber which apparently seed videos, and offer tiered plans that include viral tracking and blog/forum seeding.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/22/the-secret-strategies-behind-many-viral-videos/

This guest post was written by Dan Ackerman Greenberg, co-founder of viral video marketing company The Comotion Group

http://www.competitrack.com/competitive_advertising_us-creative-monitoring-viral-marketing.html

Established US company enters viral tracking. Not much demo infor. DM3 can compete with more “here’s a demo and sites we scrape and blogs” We need to be able to scrape many more sites and key words and UGC blogs and semi pro-blogs, adrants viralmonitor, techcrunch etc.

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