Everyone talks about Facebook and Twitter being the dominate tools for social networking. Both are great tools and can be immensely helpful in communicated to your customers via external means. However there are many new and up and coming social tools worth looking at. We would like to highlight a few of these newer technologies and provide you with the links and info you need to get started with them.

Tumblr - An all in one micro blogging system.
This is a great tool for pretty much any for of media on the web. Sharing text, music, video, photos, feeds all are a breeze with Tumblr.

Ning – A social media platform for organizations and individuals alike.
Many organizations have moved away from a traditional website and transitioned to a social community by setting up their presence with Ning. It is a free service which combines features of youtube, facebook, myspace and more. For anyone looking for a low cost way to have a web community Ning is worth the look.