Magnolia
When you’re looking for Magnolia, be careful about the DOT: It’s Ma.gnolia. You’ll spend a long time skimming through pages about Mississippi or the movie by the same title before you find the social bookmarking site.
Magnolia readers generally like business, technology and news related stuff. The most popular stuff is techy how-to stuff, usually articles that are written in an easy-to-read style. It would be a great site for submitting articles linking to your high tech or computer site.
There are quite a few business tips articles, including lots of stuff concerning internet business, social bookmarking and marketing. The biggest tags in the tag cloud are Art, Design, Video and Software, so that gives you a rough idea of what people on Magnolia go after.
Magnolia has lots of groups where users can get together and share stuff with a common interest in mind. While the biggest groups involve business or technology (like the Apple Group, Social Media, etc.), there are also groups for special non-business related interests like the UFO Group and a group that shares magic tricks.
Magnolia has all the same features of other social bookmarking sites: you can save interesting pages, share them with friends, create a profile, and use the site to draw traffic to your site. Magnolia is actually named after the movie of the same title, which is all about the unexpected ways seemingly unrelated things are connected. Magnolia’s intended aim is to bring people together, make connections and share ideas.
Businesses can advertise on Magnolia. This is one of the reasons it’s great for marketers and those who are building online businesses. You can place text advertisements or banners, and Magnolia will help you market your product. If you contact them, they will send you a free PDF explaining in detail their advertising rates and guidelines.
The system is always open to user suggestions. There are sites where users can complain or praise Magnolia, and they are publicly available. They’re aggressive about taking out spam. If you are getting spammed by someone, of if you find a site that’s suspicious or content-less, you can report it to Magnolia and they’ll wipe it out. You can also check and see what new features they’re working on, and make suggestions about what you’d like to see them improve.
There are places for users to discuss sites, or anything in particular. There are chat areas where you can talk to other users and make use of your Magnolia connections.
