The five social media technologies you couldn’t do without

So, the bloggers, web designers and programmers had a meeting in LEWIS London today to discuss some of the applications of social media technologies in a PR context. I make a point of trying to understand how all these technologies work, so I can coach clients, and of course so I can use the best technology too.

In the session, and as Jon rightly put it on his blog earlier, we decided we all have our favourites. In terms of publishing, I have run a few blogs on the big three platforms, so my favourite platforms won't be in my top five (that would use up an all too important top-five slot!). But here's what is:

• Bloglines for reading my feeds, and I use BerryBloglines to read feeds on the move
• Google Blog Search for my tracking - I use the RSS feeds that Google crunches out to track all my clients' names, their spokespeople's names, their products' names... you get the picture
• Del.icio.us for creating posts on my Social Media Report site and for managing social media intel.
• FeedYes.com for creating RSS feeds on sites that don't do it automatically - I use this for massive RSS news tracking across the media that haven't caught up
• Popurls to track memes and early-warning signals on news. The rumours on Popurls is often tomorrow's news agenda, and it keeps PRs a step ahead

And I wanted to mention so many more - but thank god for Popurls, as it covers so much.

I'm hoping that Simon, Ian, Simon, Danny and Bobbie - you can tell us what you think and carry on the meme.

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Comments

[Ian]

I don't know how many of the other social bookmarking services you've tried, but after a lost afternoon trying them all, I am a fan of Blinklist. It's far prettier than delicious - the main criteria - and seems faster too.

I'm also a fan of Bloglines - again, having tried all the free ones, though the RSS reader built into the Opera browser is pretty good too.

Popurls just makes me feel sick at all the reading I should do!