Yammer : Enterprise Microblogging

Yammer is for Enterprise Microblogging by employees.

“Yammer aims to encourage people employed within companies to interact with one another around the projects, tasks and problems that involve them during the working day. Individuals sign up using their corporate email address and invite others to join. From that point, they can use the tool to ask questions of other members of the group,such as: “What are you working on today?” Once that question has been answered, other members can join the thread. Old conversation streams are stored and everyone has the option of a profile. It’s a bit like a corporate Twitter.”  (from Revolution Magazine)

Seesmic · Build Your Community

Seesmic · Build Your Community is a video blogging site.  Video your own blog and post it.

Posterous – The place to post everything

Posterous bills itself as “The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by email.”

Recommended by Techbite, this is “a handy site for displaying practically any type of file: PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, Flash games, images, MP3s, documents, and videos in a variety of formats. The beauty of Posterous is that PowerPoint files display as they would if you had a PowerPoint viewer and image collections are automatically available as slide shows.”

Free.

Top 10 Tools for Your Blog or Web Site

Yet another top 10 post from Lifehacker on the Top 10 Tools for Your Blog or Web Site.

Software, techniques, and even hosts for websites and blogs.

BannerFans: Free Banner Making Tool

MakeUseOf has a post on BannerFans which is a Free Banner Making Tool.

BannerFans “is a nice web-based banner making tool which lets you create banners for your site and then download them in JPEG, PNG or GIF format. The application is really easy to use and provides many options to customize your banner.”

This could also be useful for blogs, if your blog host allows a custom header.

Features

• Online banner making tool.
• Create and download banners online.
• No registration required to start creating the banners.
• Multiple customization options available.
• HTML code for banner available.

TokBox: Add Video Chat

MakeUseOf has a post on TokBox which lets you Add Video Chat to Your Blog or Profile.

TokBox “is a free web-based video chat and messaging application that can be either used from TokBox.com or directly from your profile page (ex. Myspace). It takes only a couple of clicks to get started and there is absolutely nothing to install or download. All you need is a webcam and a broadband internet connection.”

TokBox Features:

• Invite someone for a video chat by sending them a link to your TokBox room.
• Share and embed your TokBox room on your blog, website or social networking profile (MySpace, Facebook, etc.). Once embedded, your visitors will be able to launch video chat with a click of a button (”Push to Talk”). If you aren’t available they will be able to leave you a video message (up to 5 min. long).
• Set your rooms to public or private modes

ScrollBox: Embed RSS Feeds

MakeUseOf has a post on ScrollBox which you can use to embed RSS Feeds onto your blog (if your blog service allows it).

Scrollbox will let you “generate dynamic widget for any given RSS feed. User can take the widget and easily add it to any site.”

Features:

* Easily embed rss feed into website.
* Customize text, color, text and background.
* Simple and easy to use.
* No registration.

How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website

How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website is a Digital Inspiration post with practical instructions on how to handle RSS feeds, videos, audio, photos and slideshows, web albums, events from Google Calendar, very large photos, charts and graphs, animated gifs and screencasts, chat functions, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheet data, PDF files, Flash (SWF or FLV files), LinkedIn profile, Google Maps, another webpage, Windows Media or QuickTime movies, other fonts, and FriendFeed lifestreams.

Whew!

Twitter Search Engines

MakeUseOf has an article on TweetScan.

Enter your query and see if anyone experienced anything similar. Due to Twitter’s huge popularity you have a high chance spotting someone who has reported the issue before you. Apart from that, TweetScan can also monitor the keywords you select and automatically email you search results on a daily basis.

40 Ways to Deliver Killer Blog Content

chrisbrogan.com has a post on40 Ways to Deliver Killer Blog Content.

Some good advice here, especially for those looking to improve their blog’s readability.

Why I Love Twitter – by Tim O’Reilly

Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly.com is a big name in computer publishing, and he’s come to find Twitter is a useful way to communicate.  He explains Why I Love Twitter.

WordPress plugin – Smart YouTube

GoogleTutor has a Recommended WordPress plugin – Smart YouTube.

It’s an easy way to insert YouTube videos into your WordPress posts, and since it links back to YouTube, it stays within copyright and YouTube regulations.

“It has all kinds of useful features like colored borders and embedding in your feed, but what I really like is how simple it is to add a video into a blog post. To post a video you simply paste in the URL of the YouTube video and add a ‘v’ to the ‘http’ portion of the URL, that’s it!”

For example: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00000000

Give your info a goose – Grade, that is

gooseGrade allows readers to provide feedback.

“gooseGrade allows you to find corrections and improve your content. It’s a free service. Join now to post your first correction to this page and let the author know that you care enough about their page to help make it perfect.”

Registration required, but a free service.

CoverItLive for podcasts, now and later

MakeUseOf has a review of CoverItLive freeware, which is a “live blogging service that allows you to stream live commentary onto your web pages or blog so your readers can follow you in real time. In addition to commentary you can also post polls, youtube videos, images, get real-time reader feedback, accept questions from viewers, monitor poll votes, etc. Extremely useful for live coverage of events, conferences, interviews etc.”

“Once your live blog is complete, the embedded Viewer Window instantly converts itself into an Instant Replay. If some of the readers missed it live they can always read the live blog later.”

BlogBackupOnline is free

BlogBackupOnline is a free service that backs up your blog, in case your blog provider loses everything due to some disaster, or by being hacked, or whatever.

While they reserve the right to terminate service at any time, having a second place with your blog can bring you a little piece of mind…

63 Essential WordPress Hacks, Tutorials, Help Files and Cheats

63 Essential WordPress Hacks, Tutorials, Help Files and Cheats is exactly what the title implies — a list of links to useful information for WordPress blogs.