Major social media sites like Digg and StumbleUpon get most of the attention, but smaller, more targeted niche sites can provide excellent opportunities for networking with others in your niche and getting some exposure for your own work.

Based on the assumption that we have a long way to go, here are 5 predictions on the future of social media, ranked from shortest time horizon to longest.

Knol is a publishing tool but unlike some other such tools by Google, this time all your article’s outgoing links will be “nofollowed.” The nofollow attribute is a mechanism to disable the juice a link is sending to another site.

A new class of specialized tools to meet the new viral analytics needs. Traditional analytics tools were historically focused on providing information relating to page views, time spent on the site and search engine ranking.

This list is by no means exhaustive, and it represents a wide variety of businesses, industries and social media tools. As you can see, engagement takes many forms. Some are likely to generate more discussions with the company while others might result be

A list of 5 social aggregators that stand out as far as being the most useful & beneficial.

Social networks are all the rage and many of my posts at OnlineMarketerBlog recommend social tools for businesses. Here are 21 things your business should consider before starting a social network:

Stories of failure are more common than success stories when it comes to social media. But since this is a new platform, you can expect a lot of mistakes while people are "getting it". I've listed 6 common mistakes companies make when they enter social me

All tools listed below fall under the following criteria: they are all useful for SEOs, they are all web-based (no desk-top ones or FireFox extensions so far, and they are all free.

We've put together a 5-step plan for kickstarting your business's social media participation.