Andrea Weckerle from New Millenium PR Blog has challenged me to come up with my favorite social network tools and tagged me meme. Okay I will bite. Here are the five tools I have been work within the social networking realm:

1. Technorati – This tool I have used for a while. Tagging is something that you need to get your head around as a marketer and a blogger. It provides both forward reference, that is being able to add meta tags to your post and have Technorati aggregate them, and reserver reference, where we can see who is linking to you and me.
2. Del.ico.us – Still trying to get my head around this social bookmarking site. One of the exercises I am working on is how to use del.ico.us on the corporate site. You will see the fruits of that effort soon.
3. ITunes – yes Itunes – Our podcasts are used to extend our audience from inside our partner and customer community and yes lots of our customers have Itunes and Ipods. This is a great social reach-out-and-touch-me tool. Audio also has higher attention rates and provides a deep interaction.
4. Odeo – for the same reason as Itunes but you can’t time shift, it makes this real dandy Flash Player
5. Blogpulse – This is Nielson’s Netmetrics site. It has some great analytics tools like the Google Trends site but for blogs.

And on Ann Handley’s post about the Typepad outage recently which I blogged about here. If a blogger blogs in a forest and Typepad is down does anyone hear her?. If a man in a forest blogs and no women is there to read it, is he still wrong?. My meme challenge then goes out to Ramana Guntor from Cistera, Range from memoirs on a rainy day, Tara Hunt from Pinko Marketing, Lisa Deere from Brainwash Café, and Brandon Millard from Call2Recycle.