Five Quick Hits to Keep You Going

Five things that caught my eye today:

Google Local Business Center redesigns itself, making it even easier to update your company’s information into its small business database. Why is this important? Google supplements organic search results with entries from this database, often ahead of even the top ranked destinations (see Google Implements Local Search Results).

Like Google Alerts “on Steroids”… Trackur.com was created by Marketing Pilgrim Andy Beal and helps you monitor your online identity (see Rise in Internet Use Reinforces the Need for a Cohesive Identity Strategy).

Twist monitors trends in Twitter. Interesting tool that monitors and compares the volume of daily tweets contain search terms (see Do You Twitter?).

BuddyPress is a new initiative to turn Wordpress MU into a social networking platform. Like Ning, this may make it even easier to build your own ‘niche’ social network (see Niche Networks and Marketing Real Estate).

Top Non-ActiveRain Real Estate Blogs. Skewed of course by the data sources, but interesting nonetheless. Kudos to Jon for putting it together every month.

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5 Comment(s)

Zoltan | Jun 16, 2008 | Reply

Thanks for the BuddyPress share. I have been waiting for it for a while.
missycaulk | Jun 17, 2008 | Reply

Just signed up for Trial on Trackr. Wow that is a great site, I suppose I will get an email when I am found, like on Google Alerts.
Hunter Jackson | Jun 17, 2008 | Reply

checking out all of the above. thank you!
Brian Requarth | Jun 17, 2008 | Reply

I will check out Trackur. Reputation management is more important now than ever. Just got a new book the other day, The Future of Reputation Management: Gossip, rumor, and privacy on the Internet. So far so good. Joel, have you tried Trackur to keep tabs on who is talking about you or FOREM? Or do you use Google alerts?
Adam | Jun 18, 2008 | Reply

Thanks for the great links. BuddyPress looks really interesting. For reputation management, one might also check out Filtrbox and Techrigy. Both have some really advanced tools for reputation management.