Thanks to Ed Lee at BloggingMeBloggingYou, I’m in my first game of online or blogging tag. YIPPEE. (BTW Ed, your blog name reminds me of a song by ABBA. Or, is it Air Supply?)
My five favorite (note the proper American English spelling 
) social media technologies . . . . hhhmmmmm? Let me think. Social media . . . what really is social media? Guess I’ve never really been into jargon and the like, but let me take a stab at it:
My first is del.icio.us. Or, as I lazily type it in www.delicious.com. Guess I’m a relative newcomer to delicious, but have found it very helpful for links I use in my blog posts. My main problem is being consistent in my tags. And, of course, as Ed noted, using notes.
For my blog reading, I use Bloglines. There’s no particular reason, other than that’s what I started with. It works for me. I also have an account at NewsGator via its Web site, but don’t really use it. Other than the occassional errors with feeds, Bloglines has been pretty good with keeping up with the blogs I read. Just have to be sure it’s consistent with what I list over there to the left.
If you are interested in military blogs, then Milblogging.com is your best choice. It has a good list of the most popular milbloggers (voted on by members), plus other ways to find milblogs. (It helped me find some excellent milblogs for a client project, and many of the blogs I found and read — and still read — opened my eyes to what active military personnel go through.)
For search, while Technorati is okay, guess I’ve found my best success with Google’s Blogsearch. Have used it a few times for work, and came away satisfied. No search engine is perfect, but Google’s Blogsearch is pretty good. Blogpulse also is pretty good.
For my fifth, I might plead the Fifth. There are plenty of other choices, but nothing really comes to mind enough that I should include it. CoComments started out as a great idea, and could be. Though I’ve not checked out its new stuff yet, I’ll hold off for now.
Let’s see, who can I tag? How about this assorted collection of bloggers: Kami at Communication Overtones (she’s always good for blogging and other tools), AC/BC at Strumpette (with they play our game?), Colin at CanuckFlack (have to have at least one Canadian blogger, right?), and finally, Philippe at ConversationBlog, who always has good posts to read.
So, since this was my first online tag game, how’d I do?
– Mike
Technorati tag: social media
