I’m here at the folks school trying to keep my healthy eating regime, but they have desert at every meal except breakfast! Fruit! Fruit! Where’s the fruit? Oh, darn. There it is.

John C. Campbell Folk School website: www.folkschool.org

In keeping with my goals to become better at new and social media, here’s the list of tools mentioned at the Southern Social Networking Summit. If you want to be more proficient at social media and Web 2.0 activities, try out these handy dandy tools and resources. See what helps you in your social networking quest to be both engaged and efficient.

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Twitter Tools

http://topsy.com/ a search engine powered by tweets
http://tinyurl.com/ making long urls usable
http://tweetmeme.com/ hottest links on twitter
http://www.tweetdeck.com/ your personal browser
http://hootsuite.com  the professional twitter client
http://monitter.com/ monitor twitter
http://search.twitter.com/ see what’s happening right now
http://oneforty.com/ find, rate, collect, share twitter apps
http://twitterrific.com/ making twitter extra terrific
http://tvider.com easily tweet photos, videos, & audio
http://twitter.grader.com get your twitter ranking
http://blastfollow.com/ follow people on twitter via #hashtag
http://www.tweetie.com/ tweet panels
http://ubertwitter.com/ twitter for mobile platforms
http://twitpic.com/ share photos on twitter
http://yfrog.com/ your images & video on twitter
http://tvider.com/ share your pictures, video, and audio on twitter
http://twitgoo.com/ share pictures on video

Productivity Tools

http://gtdiq.com/ test your getting things done IQ
http://www.zoho.com/ work.online
http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/ bring your projects into focus
http://www.shareaholic.com/ the better way to share across Twitter, Facebook, Email and More
http://www.stumbleupon.com/ discover the best of the web in less time
http://www.openoffice.org/ the free and open productivity suite
http://www.pitchengine.com/ social media pr press release builder
http://merchants.ebillme.com/ secure cash payments
http://drupal.com/#1 drupal helps other open source projects build their communities
http://www.joomla.org/ content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications
http://www.slideshare.net/ present  yourself
http://www.surveymonkey.com/ the simple way to create surveys
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ online to-do list and task manager
http://dictionary.reference.com/ find meanings & definitions
http://www.dopplr.com/ make your travel planning smarter
http://www.tripit.com/ organize your travel
https://www.dropbox.com/ secure backup, sync, and sharing made easy
http://www.getbuttonedup.com/ Free Life Organization Tips, Tools, and Help from Organizational Gurus
http://www.evernote.com/ Remember everything.
http://picasa.google.com/ free photo editing from google
http://www.wikispaces.com/ wikis for everyone

Content Tools

http://www.ted.com/ ideas worth spreading
http://helpareporter.com/ help a reporter out – reporters in search of experts
http://commoncraft.com/ our product is explanation
http://www.futureofthebook.org/ the institute for the future of the book
http://vook.com/index.php read it, watch it
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/public_media/ future of public media
http://www.colourlovers.com/ color + design community for creative inspiration
http://www.socialscoop.biz/ maximize your marketing through social media
http://regator.com/ the web’s best blog posts
http://shelf-awareness.com/ daily enlightenment for the book trade
http://www.bulletproofblog.com/ the blog on crisis communication
http://www.scribd.com/ Millions of readers.  Millions of documents.

Tracking Tools

http://bit.ly/ shorten, share, and track your links
http://delicious.com/ social bookmarking
http://digg.com/ the latest news headlines, videos, and images
http://mashable.com/ the social media guide
http://bloggernetwork.org who is in your area?
http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp Connect.  Inform.  Grow.
http://www.evite.com/ Invitations, free cards, and party planning ideas
https://crazyegg.com/ visualize your visitors
http://myemma.com/ email marketing solutions & newsletters

Social Networking Sites

http://foursquare.com/ check in, find your friends, unlock your city
http://www.indiebound.org/ be a part of the story
http://www.goodreads.com/ share book recommendations with your friends, join book clubs, answer
trivia
http://getglue.com the network that sticks to you
http://www.meetup.com/ Find a group. Start a group.
http://www.govloop.com/ social networking for government
http://www.linkedin.com/ Build your network
http://gowalla.com/ Go out. Go discover. Go share.
http://www.looxii.com/ simple social media solutions
http://www.librarything.com/ catalog your books online
http://www.tribe.net/welcome find your tribe online
http://www.tagged.com/ Find your friends.  Meet new people.
http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.myspace.com/

Easy Share Sites

http://vimeo.com/ video sharing for you
http://www.yousendit.com/ send, receive and track large and important files (lite account is free)
http://www.meebo.com/ instant messaging everywhere
http://www.flickr.com/ share your photos. Watch the world.
http://photobucket.com/ save your photos and videos
http://www.youtube.com/ broadcast yourself
http://www.librarything.com/ catalog your books online
http://www.blogger.com create your free blog
http://wordpress.org/ blog tool and publishing platform
http://www.typepad.com/ simple, social blogging
http://animoto.com the end of slide shows
http://www.cooliris.com/ browse photos & videos
http://www.cloudprofile.com/ be found and engage your customers online
http://etherpad.com/ realtime collaborative text editing
http://www.viddler.com/ the best way to watch and publish your videos
http://friendfeed.com/ the easiest way to share online
http://ping.fm/ update all of your social networks at once
http://cliqset.com/ share, discover, and discuss your life online
http://www.tumblr.com/ the easiest way to blog
http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/?cid=OAS-US-DOMAINS-itunes.com everything you need to be entertained
http://www.slideshare.net/ upload and share PowerPoint presentations & documents

Readers, Aggregators,  & Search Engines

http://bloglines.com/ It’s the same internet minus the clutter
www.google.com/reader read it in one place
http://www.google.com/ check out all of the options on google, endless (http://wave.google.com)
http://www.icerocket.com/ blog search
http://clusty.com/ the clustering search engine
http://popurls.com/  the genuine news aggregator for the latest web buzz
http://www.ask.com/ search engine
http://alltop.com/ all the hot stories