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Below you'll find a comprehensive list of Social Media Tips, 

Guides, Plugins, Platforms, Analytics Tools, Apps and other

great Social Media resources. This list is designed as a

reference guide for delegates who have attended our Social Networking training or SEO training courses in Brighton, Sussex - but it would be mean of us not to make it available to everyone. We also provide creative courses like Photoshop Training and Leadership and Management Training like PRINCE2 Training and Business Analysis Courses. Enjoy...

Tips & Guides

Mashable – Twitter Lists, Resources & How-To's
http://mashable.com/2009/01/01/twitter-user-types/

10 Things to Do Before Launching Your Blog
http://ow.ly/wZ3K

Search engine optimization – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization

SEOmoz | 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/21-tactics-to-increase-blog-traffic

How to optimise website images from a SEO perspective
http://blog.avangate.com/optimize-website-images/

The Blogger?s Guide to SEO
http://www.seobook.com/bloggers

Methods of website linking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_website_linking

Linkbaiting for Fun & Profit
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/linkbaiting-for-fun-profit/2541/

Web analytics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_analytics

?Meme? explained on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

Know Your Meme
http://knowyourmeme.com

List of social networking websites on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

Tools & Analytics

Google Alerts
http://www.google.com/alerts

Technorati
http://technorati.com/

FeedBurner
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home

Google Analytics
http://www.google.com/analytics/

Woopra
http://www.woopra.com/

Social Mention
http://www.socialmention.com/

Trending Tools

Digg
http://digg.com/

Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

Popular Bookmarks on Delicious
http://delicious.com/popular

Twitter Search
https://twitter.com/#!/search-home

Yahoo! Buzz Index – Today?s Top 20 Overall Searches
http://buzzlog.buzz.yahoo.com/overall/

Tweetmeme
http://tweetmeme.com/

Wordpress Plugins & Themes

WordPress › WordPress Plugins
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

WordPress › WordPress Themes
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

ShareThis
http://sharethis.com/

Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam « Akismet
http://akismet.com/

All In One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin
http://semperfiwebdesign.com/portfolio/wordpress/wordpressplugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

Audio Player Wordpress plugin
http://wpaudioplayer.com/

FeedBurner
http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/05/feedburner_adopts_twoyearold_r.php

Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress

http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpressplugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/

Simple Tags
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags/

SRG Clean Archives
http://www.idunzo.com/projects/clean-archives/

Wptouch: WordPress on iPhone
http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/

FaceBook Share
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-share-new/

Facebook Connect
http://www.sociable.es/facebook-connect/

TweetMeme
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme/

The Social Web

Delicious
http://delicious.com/

Last.fm
http://www.last.fm/home

Facebook
http://www.facebook.com

Flickr!
http://www.flickr.com/

FriendFeed
http://friendfeed.com/

LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/

MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/

Twitter
http://twitter.com/home

Google Buzz
http://www.google.com/buzz

Digg
http://digg.com/

Seesmic
http://www.seesmic.com/

Stumbleupon
http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Ning - Create Your Own Social Network
http://www.ning.com/

Squidoo
http://www.Squidoo.com

Diigo - Social Bookmarking
http://www.diigo.com/

Social Tools & Apps

Ping FM - Update multiple Social Networks at once (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc...)
http://ping.fm/

Brizzly – Twitter web app
http://brizzly.com

KnowEm – Check your username
http://knowem.com/

Alltop, all the top stories
http://alltop.com/

Firefox web browser
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

j.mp - URL shortner with stats
http://j.mp/

TinyURL – URL shortner
http://tinyurl.com/

Twitter Tools

Our list of 50+ apps for Twitter marketing
http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/blog/twitter-marketing-best-twitter-apps/

Hootsuite
http://hootsuite.com/

Twitterfall – a way of viewing the latest ?tweets? of upcoming trends
http://twitterfall.com/

Seesmic – Twitter & FB app
http://seesmic.com/

Twitterrific – Mac & iPhone app
http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific

TweetDeck – Twitter, FB & MySpace app
http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

Power Twitter – Firefox Add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9591

TweetBeep
http://tweetbeep.com/

Monitter
http://monitter.com

We've also made a more extensive list of our favourite Twitter tools if you're looking for more.