Here is a list of articles, reports and presentation that you might find interesting.

Tips & Guides

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

How To Blog: A Beginner?s Blog Publishing Guide
http://www.masternewmedia.org/independent_publishing/blogging-how-to-blog/guide-to-publishing-first-blog-20071104.htm.htm

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

Writing for Bloggers – A Quick Guide on Style, Substance and Strategy
http://kendallcopywriting.co.uk/2009/01/06/writing-for-bloggers-in-blog-form/

Creating a web presence – why bother?
http://kendallcopywriting.co.uk/2009/01/14/creating-a-web-presence-why-bother/

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 optimize 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

My list of tips for getting the most out of Twitter
http://www.joshrussell.com/2008/10/07/my-list-of-tips-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/

Free Twitter backgound template download
http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/free-resources/download-free-l-twitter-background/

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

Know Your Meme
http://knowyourmeme.com

What Social Media Is and What Social Media Is Not
http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/01/what-social-media-is-andwhat-social.html

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

Google Social Search Launches, Gives Results From Your Trusted “Social Circle”
http://searchengineland.com/google-social-search-launchesgives-results-from-your-trusted-social-circle-28507

Boolean Searching on the Internet
http://www.internettutorials.net/boolean.asp

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

About Ask.com: IQ
http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtml

Digg
http://digg.com/

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

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

Twitter Search
http://search.twitter.com/

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/

Challenge
http://lordchaos.dominatus.net/wordpress-plugin-challenge

Favicon Manager
http://www.digitalramble.com/favicon-manager-wordpress-plugin/

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

Google Analyticator
http://cavemonkey50.com/code/google-analyticator/

Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpressplugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/

PXS Mail Form
http://www.phrixus.co.uk/pxsmail

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

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

Wordbook Facebook
http://www.tsaiberspace.net/blog/2007/07/29/wordbook/

WordPress Automatic Upgrade
http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-12-release.html

WordPress Database Backup
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup

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/

Topsy
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/topsy/

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/

Amplify – Another really useful tool for updating muliple Social Media Networks
http://amplify.com/

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

Where is your Username registered
http://usernamecheck.com/

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

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

Topsy
http://topsy.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/

Listorious
http://listorious.com/

Yoono – Firefox Plugin to Monitor all Social Media Accounts
http://yoono.com/

Flock – Social Web Browser
http://flock.com/

The Conversation Prism – Monitor multiple Social Media channels
http://theconversationprism.com/

Twitter Tools

Our guide to Brand monitoring on Twitter – 5 top tools
http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/blog/twitter-brand-monitoring-tools/

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

Mr. Tweet – Your Personal Networking Assistant!
http://mrtweet.net/

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

Twuffer – schedule tweets for later!
http://twuffer.com/

TweetBeep
http://tweetbeep.com/

Jim Grygar’s list of 60 Twitter tools
http://jimgrygar.byethost12.com/60-twitter-tools-to-track-tweets/

Monitter
http://monitter.com

Suggested Reading List

Great Books

• The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition by Christopher Locke
• The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
• The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki Influence:
• Science and Practice (4th Edition) by Robert B. Cialdini
• The New Maximarketing by Stan Rapp
• Re-imagine by Tom Peters

Good Books

• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
• Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
• Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe
• Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff
• Beyond Maximarketing: The New Power of Caring and Daring by Stan Rapp
• The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Blogs, News Releases, Online Video, and Viral Marketing to
• Reach Buyers Directly, 2nd Edition by David Meerman Scott
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte