My Virtual Blog

I’ve got a very techie (geeky?) background and it’s in my nature to always look for new and/or better or more efficient ways to do things. I have beta tested lots of applications in my time, which is why I’m often compelled to sign up in many places for tools that I find appealing.   I’m forever reading Twitter posts and Mashable, which has lead me to some great new social networking sites and some sites that leave me with this word leaving my lips –  “SERIOUSLY?”  I have recently come across a couple of good sites (IMHO) as well as one that appears to have great potential.  They do seem to be worth the time to investigate. 

 Tweetimonials – I don’t think this cool Twitter tool is really new, but I wonder if you know how cool it is when you add it to your website.  The way it works is that it takes your tweets that you’ve marked as favorites (and that would be the ones where your peeps have posted kind and complimentary things about you ) and puts them into a running list.  You add the widget to your website and it’s like a marquee that runs small testimonials for you!  What a great concept.  As an example, here are my Tweetimonials for @MVPSusi on the My Virtual Project Resources page.

 GizaPage – I’ve just recently signed up for this and you can view my GizaPage at http://susischuele.gizapage.com/.  If you take a look, you can see all of my profiles that I’ve opted to publish on GizaPage.  If you’re like me, that’s a lot of profiles!  But it’s extremely convenient to give others this one link to your entire social identity instead of 40.  You can keep yourself up to date through the “My Organizer” button, and your friends can stay up to date through one site.  Not to mention that you can promote this site through email and manage privacy.  The screenshot here shows a great dashboard that creates a tab with each update you do for easy reference.  I will probably use this in combination with Tweetdeck for Twitter because although they do provide the Twitter profile, I like all of the features with Tweetdeck.

 All Of Me – Although I’ve just briefly taken a look at this and am currently beta testing it,  it looks like it could be something pretty great.  It basically provides you with an automatic personal timeline of your life from any digital assets you have, such as pictures, videos, blogs, documents, or any internet page that you can view as a kind of moving graph.  You can also view timelines on friends and family as well as other featured timelines like Mashable and even TV Shows such as Desperate Housewives.  You can also run the timelines in a slideshow, although the images don’t always come out well.  It’s great for Twitter posts though.  All in all – Pretty cool.

 Of course there are hundreds of social networking tools available, and it’s really a personal choice.  However, these 3 did stand out for me.