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The Conversation Prism gives an excellent overview over the available social media tools available.
On the Conversation Prism Blog, Des Walsh a former Australian public servant gives an interesting talk why parliamentarians and public sector managers need to actively participate in social media as part of the proceedings from the Public Sphere event on Government 2.0, hosted by Senator Kate Lundy on the 22nd June 2009. In his talk, Des also explains the Conversation Prism.



My Social Media sites ranking
  1. Facebook - Social Networking Service
  2. Youtube - Video Sharing Website
  3. Wikipedia Web-based Encyclopedia
  4. Twitter - Micro-blogging Service
  5. LinkedIn - Business-oriented Social Networking Site
  6. Flickr - Image Hosting Website
  7. Slideshare - Online Slide Hosting Service
  8. HootSuite - Online Brand Management Service
  9. ping.fm - Simultaneous Micro-Blogging Service
  10. MySpace - Social Networking Service
  11. Stumbleupon - Discovery Engine
  12. Delicious - Social Bookmarking
  13. Digg - Social News Website
  14. Scribd - Document Sharing Website 
  15. Tumblr - Micro-blogging Platform 
  16. Reddit - Social News Website
  17. metacafe - Community-based Video Sharing Website
  18. CoverItLive - Web-based Service for Blogging Events in Real Time
  19. Ustream - Life-Casting and Video-Streaming Platform

The most important social media sites with brief description

Facebook is a social network service and website launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of July 2010 Facebook has more than 500 million active users, which is about one person for every fourteen in the world. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school, or college, or other characteristics. [Wikipedia]

YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. The site uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. [Wikipedia]

Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 16 million articles (over 3.4 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. Wikipedia is currently the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet ranked seventh among all websites on Alexa. When Time magazine recognized You as its Person of the Year for 2006, acknowledging the accelerating success of online collaboration and interaction by millions of users around the world, it cited Wikipedia as one of several examples of Web 2.0 services, along with YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook. Some noted the importance of Wikipedia not only as an encyclopedic reference but also as a frequently updated news resource because of how quickly articles about recent events appear [Wikipedia].

Twitter is a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., which offers a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read other users' messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page. Tweets are publicly visible by default, however senders can restrict message delivery to their friends list. Users may subscribe to other author tweets which is known as following and subscribers are known as followers. As of late 2009, users can follow lists of authors instead of just following individual authors. All users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as for smartphones), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries. Twitter currently has more than 100 million users.[Wikipedia]

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site. The site is mainly used for professional networking. LinkedIn has more than 75 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The site is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish [Wikipedia].

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community created by Ludicorp and later acquired by Yahoo!. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. In September 2010, it reported that it was hosting more than 5 billion images [Wikipedia].

SlideShare is an online slide hosting service. Users can upload files in the following file formats: PowerPoint, PDF, or OpenOffice presentations. Launched on October 4, 2006, the website is considered to be similar to YouTube, but for slideshows. The website was originally meant to be used for businesses to share slides among employees more easily, but it has since expanded to also become a host of a large number of slides which are uploaded merely to entertain.The website gets an estimated 12 million unique visitors a month [Wikipedia].

Interesting Websites
www.webbyawards.com
www.WebPagesThatSuck.com
www.web.archive.org
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