If you are an entrepreneur and looking for ways to start and promote your own business then you should consider the power of social media. As an aspiring entrepreneur you have to make an effort to network, connect, collaborate, and share knowledge with talented and like minded people.

Below is a list of some very popular social networking sites for entrepreneurs and businessess:

Linkedin

Linkedin is an established name in the field of professional networking. Members use Linkedin to create professional profiles, connect with like minded people, collaborate with potential business partners, connect with service providers, recruit new talent and much more.

Link: http://www.Linkedin.com

Konnects

Konnects powers online newspaper communities. Our social media platform for magazines and newspapers is intended to bring growth and engagement to your organization’s website. Our Software as a Service (SaaS) platform is designed to be integrated into any website easily. The Konnects Community Platform includes social networking, commenting, registration tools, user-generated content, advertising and community analytics for online newspapers and publications. A successful community is much more than just deploying a social appliation. Our solutions team is available throughout the entire community deployment process to assist in multiple areas from strategic planning, launching the platform and goal tracking.

Link: http://www.konnects.com/

Sprouter (Red Wire Nation)

Connect with other innovators to network, share ideas and collaborate. Solicit real-time feedback and benefit from previous discussions.Discover relevant events in your local area and post your own.

Link: http://sprouter.com/

Ryze

Ryze helps people make connections and grow their networks. You can network to grow your business, build your career and life, find a job and make sales. Or just keep in touch with friends. Members get a free networking-oriented home page and can send messages to other members. They can also join special Networks related to their industry, interests or location. More than 1,000 organizations host Networks on Ryze to help their members interact with each other and grow their organizations.

Link: http://ryze.com/

Biznik

Biznik is an award winning networking site for entrepreneurs where they can connect both online and in person. Biznik is for people who want to set up real businesses, not for those looking for a new job.

Link: http://biznik.com

Partner Up

PartnerUp is an online networking community that entrepreneurs and small business owners use to find the expertise and resources they need to start and grow a business. Members can connect with potential partners, advisers, and business resources.

PartnerUp also builds online communities for companies that target small business customers. SCORE Association – a nonprofit association of more than 11,000 counselors dedicated to advising entrepreneurs about growing successful small businesses – has their own community built and powered by PartnerUp that
connects to PartnerUp’s community of more than 100,000 members.

Link: http://www.partnerup.com/

eFactor

eFactor is a business networking site where entrepreneurs get to make contacts, find investors, attend special events and market their products or services. eFactor has members from different industries and Countries.

Link: http://www.efactor.com/

Cofoundr

Cofoundr is a private social network where entrepreneurs can find partners, form teams, and look for investors. The service requires you to have a vaild work or university email id.

Link: http://www.cofoundr.com

Start up Nation

Start up Nation is a business networking site for Entrepreneurs to connect and exchange information with like minded people. The site also offers advice, tips, articles on how to start and run your own business. Features include blogs, forums, podcasts and on demand seminars.

Link: http://www.startupnation.com

Fast Pitch

Fast Pitch is a social networking site for business professionals. Members create their business profiles and interact with other members in real time. Members market their business with the help of blogs, press releases, emails and announcements.

Link: http://www.fastpitchnetworking.com

Go Big Network

The Go BIG Network is an on-line marketplace that connects the startup and small business community. The company allows startup companies, funding sources, advisors, and service providers to post requests for help on-line and have those requests routed to other members of the Network who can help them.

Link: http://www.gobignetwork.com

The Funded

TheFunded.com is an online community of entrepreneurs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. In addition, TheFunded.com allows entrepreneurs to view and share term sheets, to assist one another finding good investors, and to discuss the many facets of operating a business.

Link: http://www.thefunded.com

Perfect Business

Perfect Business is one of the fastest growing networks for entrepreneurs. Perfect business helps entrepreneurs to connect with potential partners, investors, board members, advisors and other entrepreneurs. Features include: the business plan builder, ask an expert service, video center, pitch center
and the investor center.

Link: http://www.perfectbusiness.com

Open Coffee Club

The OpenCoffee Club was started to encourage entrepreneurs, developers and investors to organise real-world informal meetups to chat, network and grow.
This is an attempt to establish recognized, open and regular meeting places where entrepreneurs can meet with investors (and anyone else who fancies coming along) in a totally informal setting.

Link: http://opencoffee.ning.com/

What is a Blog Network?

A blog network is a group of independent bloggers who have joined together under a particular name/banner for different purposes the most common being to grow a back link. It is also referred to as a blog farm. There are different types of blog networks all designed for a specific purpose. There are blog networks that are commercial in nature and others that are primarily about social networking and promoting blogs. Gawker Media and Weblogs Inc are considered to be two of the most famous and long running blog networks.

1 | My Opera

My Opera is the support community for the Opera web browser. More than 4,500+ new members join per day, and the site has more than 3.5 million members. In addition to being a support site for the Opera browser, My Opera is a social networking site, featured with blogs, photo albums, and more

One can do following things by joining this community:

Blogging

– Easy to use and fully customizable blogs

Photo sharing

– Share your photos online

Friends

– Keep up with friends, Facebook & Twitter integration

Opera

– Access to Opera Link and Opera Unite

It’s free

– Membership is completely free

Link: http://my.opera.com/community

2 | MyBlogLog

MyBlogLog is a social network for the blogger community that is based in part on interactions facilitated by a popular web widget that many members install on their blog. Bloggers sign up for free accounts on MyBlogLog and can initiate a blog community for one or more blogs they author. Other registered members can subscribe to these communities, effectively bookmarking them for future reading and sharing them with their own contacts.

Bloggers can then display widgets on their sites which show MyBlogLog online community members who have recently visited their page. These widgets also contain links to visiting members’ community pages, and are one way in which users connect with one another. All members can see certain basic information about how many people visit their blog, what links they clicked and where they come from. Members may also view more extensive information about traffic on their site for a monthly fee.

Link: http://www.mybloglog.com

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.The name Technorati is a blend of the words technology and literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism.

Technorati uses and contributes to open source software. Technorati has an active software developer community, many of them from open-source culture. Sifry is a major open-source advocate, and was a founder of LinuxCare and later of Wi-Fi access point software developer Sputnik. Technorati includes a public
developer’s wiki, where developers and contributors collaborate, also various open APIs.

Link: http://www.technorati.com

4 | Blog Catalog

Blog Catalog is the premiere social blog directory on the internet. Whether you’re looking to promote your own blog, find blogs on various topics, or connect with other bloggers this site is for you.

You can submit your Blog by going to the Submit A Blog page. Once your blog has been submitted, it will be reviewed by a member of the BlogCatalog Team. Generally the process takes no longer than 24 hours. However, depending upon the circumstances it can take up to 48 hours.

Link: http://www.blogcatalog.com

5 | LiveJournal

LiveJournal (often abbreviated LJ) is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free and open source server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community. LiveJournal’s differences from other blogging sites include its WELL-like features of a self-contained community and some social networking features similar to other social networking sites.

Link: http://www.livejournal.com

Social networking and business networking websites are springing up on a daily basis at the moment, here at DigitalPercept we are compiling a list of the best social networking websites and the best business networking websites we have found. We are also offering the webmasters of networking sites to add their
information to DigitalPercept. If you would like to add your networking site please Contact us ensuring you mention DigitalPercept Social Networking in the subject line.

These are the DigitalPercept’s choice of Top 10 Social Networking websites of year 2010.

1 | twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict
delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.

Link: http://www.twitter.com

MySpace is a social networking website. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, US, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media, owned by News Corporation. MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006. According to comScore, MySpace was overtaken internationally by its main competitor, Facebook, in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors. MySpace employs 1,000 employees, after laying off 30% of its workforce in June 2009; the company does not disclose revenues or profits separately from News Corporation. The 100 millionth account was created on August 9, 2006, in the Netherlands.

Link: http://www.myspace.com

Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website’s name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.

Link: http://www.facebook.com

Bebo is a popular social networking site which connects you to everyone and everything you care about.It is your life online — a social experience that helps you discover what’s going on with your world and helps the world discover what’s going on with you. Bebo combines community, self-expression and entertainment, enabling you to consume, create, discover, curate and share digital content in entirely new ways. Bebo has sites all across the globe — US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Poland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, India and the Netherlands.

Link: http://www.bebo.com/

5 | friendster

Friendster is a privately owned social networking website.Its headquarters are in Sydney, Australia. The service allows users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. The website is also used for dating and discovering new events, bands, and hobbies. Users may share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via their profile and their network.

Link: http://www.friendster.com/

6 | Hi5

Hi5 is a social networking website. As of January 2009, Hi5 claims to have over 60 million active members.In Hi5, users create an online profile in order to show information such as interests, age and hometown and upload user pictures where users can post comments. Hi5 also allows the user to create personal photo albums and set up a music player in the profile. Users can also send friend requests via e-mail to other users. When a person receives a friend request, he may accept or decline it, or block the user altogether. If the user accepts another user as a friend, the two will be connected directly or in the 1st degree. The user will then appear on the person’s friend list and vice-versa.

Link: http://www.Hi5.com/

Orkut is a free-access social networking service owned and operated by Google. The service is designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. The website is named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten.

Although Orkut is less popular in the United States than competitors Facebook and MySpace, it is one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil.In fact, as of May 2009, 49.83% of Orkut’s users are from Brazil, followed by India with 17.51%.

Link: http://www.orkut.com

Zorpia was founded in 2003 with a goal of bringing people together from all over the world and allowing them to share their ideas and interests. Since then the Zorpia Team has worked ceaselessly to reach people’s heart and provide the best features in order to maximize our users’ satisfaction. Our primary features are photo album, online journal, social networking, customized homepage, comment system and discussion forum.

Link: http://www.Zorpia.com

Netlog (formerly known as Facebox and Bingbox) is a Belgian social networking website specifically targeted at the European youth demographic.The site was founded in July 2003 in Ghent, Belgium, by Lorenz Bogaert and Toon Coppens, and as of December 2009 has 59 million registered users across 25 languages.On Netlog, members can create their own web page, extend their social network, publish their music playlists, share videos, post blogs and join groups.

Link: http://www.Netlog.com

Propeller is a social news portal, meaning that it is programmed by you – the audience. Our members post links to stories from all over the Web. Many of these stories originate from the websites of traditional media, including newspapers and magazines. But you will also find many stories that seldom pop up in the mainstream. Perhaps it does take a village – or at least a large community of news-hungry citizens – to nudge certain stories into the limelight.

Link: http://www.propeller.com

1 | digg.com

Digg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down is the site’s cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most Dugg stories appear on the front page. Digg’s popularity has prompted the creation of other social networking sites with story submission and voting systems.

Link: http://www.digg.com

Yahoo! Buzz is a community-based news article website, much like Digg, that combines the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allows editorial control. Users can be allowed to publish their own news stories, and link to their own or another person’s site that links to a full story of the information, therefore driving traffic to that person’s website and creating a larger market for sites that research and publish their own news articles and stories, such as CNN or smaller, privately owned websites.

Link: http://buzz.yahoo.com

TweetMeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular. TweetMeme categorises these links into Categories, Subcategories and Channels, making it easy to filter out the noise to find what you’re interested in.

TweetMeme make it easy for you to subscribe to each category and the most popular through our RSS feeds and Twitter accounts. You can find out more about these through its help pages.

Link: http://www.tweetmeme.com

StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles.

Web pages are presented when the user clicks the “Stumble!” button on the browser’s toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which Web page to display based on the user’s ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests. Users can rate or choose not to rate any
Web page with a thumbs up or thumbs down, and clicking the Stumble button resembles “channel-surfing” the Web. StumbleUpon also allows their users to indicate their interests from a list of nearly 500 topics to produce relevant content for the user. There is also one-click blogging built in as well.

Link: http://www.StumbleUpon.com

Reddit (stylised “reddit”) is a social news website on which users can post links to content on the Internet. Other users may then vote the posted links up or down, causing them to become more or less prominent on the Reddit home page.

Link: http://www.reddit.com

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. The name Technorati is a blend of the words technology and literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism.

Link: http://www.Technorati.com

Delicious (formerly del.icio.us, pronounced “delicious”) is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Link: http://www.delicious.com

Kaboodle is a social shopping community where people discover, recommend and share products. Kaboodle’s powerful shopping tools allow people to organize their shopping through lists, discover new things from people with similar style, get discounts on popular products and find best prices.

Link: http://www.kaboodle.com

Mixx is a user-driven social media web site that serves to help users submit or find content by peers based on interest and location. It combines social networking and bookmarking with web syndication, blogging and personalization tools.

Link: http://www.mixx.com

Linkroll is a free link blogging service. At a personal level you can bookmark, categorize and comment on all the great web pages/links you find. All your bookmarks are then sortable and searchable by category and date. All bookmarks are also accessible, by category and/or user, in the form of RSS feed (for your news aggregator), or JavaScript (for syndication on your own web site)

Link: http://www.Linkroll.com