In the last few days I have expanded my web 2.0 marketing presence.

I am now using the Twitter tool – Twhirl. Twhirl is a cool desktop tool that makes it easy to monitor tweets without having a browser open, in an unobtrusive way.

Once installed Twhirl sites in the system tray, and will popup a little twitter notification in the bottom right of the screen for a few seconds. You can see who twittered, and what was twittered about and then decide if you want open the small Twhirl window and follow the tweets.

Twhirl also makes it very easy to reply to followers from your desktop.

I really wasn’t sure if I would like Twhirl because I have tried several Twitter related apps, and never ended up using any of them. However, I am finding myself being dependant on Twhirl so this is probably one I will keep long term.

I have also registered with a great new free service – FriendFeed.com. FriendFeed is an online community service, that creates a page for you with several of your favorite web 2.0 service feeds.

It’s like a personal feed mashup that you can use to display all of your feeds in one place. It’s a place where people can really see all that you are doing, or you can see all that others are doing.

For example, you can see my FriendFeed http://friendfeed.com/ecompeak and see my Twitters, my Blogs Posts, my Stumbles, my Diggs, my Youtube videos and favorites, and more.

You can also follow other members and see what they are doing. Get signed up with FriendFeed and add me as a friend.

One thing that is really cool about Friendfeed, is that it creates a feed of your Friendfeed compiled feeds. You could use this feed on your other websites, on your Squidoo lens and anywhere else you can submit feeds – like rss feed directories :-)

Submitting your RSS feeds to RSS directories is a great way to build high quality backlinks, and backlinks are good for SEO.

I love RSS feeds – I’m sure you know that all of your blogs have RSS feeds. All of your WordPress blogs, Squidoo lens, Hubpages, YouTube videos, Flicker photos – they all have RSS feeds that can be submitted to RSS directories.

The thing is, you need to know what RSS directories to submit to, and it’s time consuming to submit them.

A guy I’ve been watching online for a while, has just developed a tool that will automatically submit your feeds to over 20 feed directories. Okay, I’m not a fan of the name Badassrss, but the rss tool saves a ton of time.

The best part is, you can try it our for a $1. I suggest you give it a try for a buck, submit the feeds from your favorite blogs or services and see if it’s something you need long term.

You can get the $1 Trial Here!

These are 3 tools that I have added to my Web 2.0 arsenal and will be using on a daily basis.

Mike

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