FOLIO 2008 Recap: Free Online Tools To Improve Your Website

If you or your web folks are trying to figure out what easy, and free, applications they can use to improve reader engagement on your magazine's website, consider this list from last week's FOLIO:2008 Session "Inside the Ultimate E-media Toolbox" with speakers Evan Hansen, Editor-in-Chief, Wired.com; Joe Pulizzi, Founder and Chief Content Officer, Junta42, and Justin Reid, Online Technical Producer, Dwell.com.

1. Evan Hansen, Editor-in-Chief, Wired.com > User engagement tools
PollDaddy.com – polling software
Wikinvest.com - stockcharts
Springwidgets.com – create widgets, pull in feeds
Reddit.com – Social Networking news traffic
WikiScanner – find edits made to wikipedia.org
ZeeMaps.com – Improves Googlemaps, allows for notations and customization
Dipity.com – User Interface tool; data feeds; create timelines

2. Joe Pulizzi, Founder and Chief Content Officer, Junta42
From Junta42 "Junta42 is a search community site focused on content marketing and custom publishing solutions"
Consider Google Custom Search for finding and posting topical content
Pligg.com -- Per its site, Pligg "is an open source Content Management System (CMS) available to download for free"; it’s also a digg.com type site that can be integrated with custom search
Technorati.com
BoardReader.com
TwitterSearch.com

3. Justin Reid, Online Technical Producer, Dwell.com
Feedburner.com is a free application to monitor site feed metrics
Twitter.com
Tweetburner.com
FriendFeed.com (FriendFeed helps you discover and discuss interesting stuff that your friends and family find on the web)

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