As promised, here is the second part of our Tools and Trends Meeting Wrap Up

Blogging

WordPress 3 is out in beta now. The release date is scheduled for May 2010 but you can find plenty of feature overviews on the new features. WP Beginner

Posterous: Is an incredibly simple and flexible blogging platform. Post can made via email, mobile devices and through integration with a few dozen other tools.

Tumblr: Very easy way to blog, especially for audio, videos, or photo, just about anything from just about anywhere.  It does not rank, though.

TweetMeme: Very simple add on to any of the popular blogging platforms, making every blog post you create sharable. Must-have! 

Content

Formspring: Open yourself up to questions from the masses, literally – once you have an account people can ask you questions anonymously. You can choose which to answer, of course and which applications it integrates with.

BizGreet: A platform for hosting personalized web video that is customizable to the person viewing it based upon their browser, hosting environment or customer data.  

Twitter

Interfaces:

Tweetdeck Seesmic Tweetie2 (iPhone) Tweetie

Management:

 Hootsuite Cotweet: Multiple users can manage accounts, schedule updates run RSS feeds automatically through it and you can “assign” tasks and mentions to other people.

 SocialOomph: Very powerful tool for managing multiple accounts across multiple platforms.

 Friend or Follow: Manage your followers, and the people who aren’t following you back. Good optimization tool for your social graph. 

 ManageTwitter Easy way to manage your followers and those you follow with great statistics on their usage. Also has a great unfollow tool that is in danger of being shut down.

Measurement

Twitter

Statistics on users

Twitalyzer Klout Twitter Grader Twittercounter: Good for competitive research or finding “influencers.” Twitalyzer can also be integrated with google analytics for reporting purposes.

Statistics on Tweets

Tweetreach: How far a particular tweet “reached” via retweet and the subsequent networks. Good for measuring results.

General

Sysomos MutualMind Ubervu: Excellent suites of business intelligence tools for measuring effectiveness across multiple platforms. Ubervu also includes sentiment rankings.

 Research and Monitoring

Knowem Howsociable: Figure out where your business or competitors already have social profiles at a glance. Howsociable will try to “score” that presence while Knowem just lets you know if the username is available.

Radian6:  An enterprise level tool that you can use to collaborate with team members and collectively monitor for mentions of your brand to respond to.

Meltwater: A cheaper version of R6 that can be good for reporting but not as robust for real-time response.

Socialmention: A search engine where you can get quick stats on a brand name. You can also use RSS feeds from Twitter search, google search, blog search, Yelp review page, etc and route them through Yahoo! Pipes to watch that way, for free.

Did I miss something? If you have another tool, site or category that you’d like to add to this list, simply put them in the comments section below.