I recently came up with a small rubric to rank the most effective Top 15 Social Media Websites: LinkedIn, MeetUp, Facebook, MySpace, Mixx, Sphinn, Friend Connect, Mashable, WordPress, Slideshare, AuthorStream, YouTube, Delicious, Twitter, and of course #1 Google (though we all know its not a social networking site, but yet and still, it’s Google

You can follow us under any one of the above sites by searching for ‘blacksonville’. Here’s the breakdown…

1. Quality of Web Content – contains information pertaining to like-interest, develops cohesiveness, provides relativity, builds power linking, eye candy-driven, high attraction.
2. Site Ranking – based on number of visitors, improves SEO and SEM.
3. Data Portability – provides user the ability to transport and integrate data or “friends” into a widget, a separate website, blog or social network.
4. Web Syndication – This attribute is critical for content duplication across multiple sites, i.e. press release, viral video, RSS, etc. This feature will strengthen your web presence over night through the use of tags and categories that work like keyword submissions.
5. Customization – The sites above offer the convenience of user-friendly customization to your webpage, profile and plug-in web applications. This is paramount for companies seeking to maintain their corporate brand, targeting marketing, and overall creativity.
6. Core Features – High level of GUI functionality and remarkable ease of customer interaction/userability. From posting data to video, my top 15 social networks are scalable to host any bit of data you can imagine! This includes basic publishing, scripting, drag-n-drop features, and other promotional tools.

** That’s it for now. Stay tune for PART II of the Top 15 Social Networks as we delve deeper into the underpinning benefits of establishing a web presence on these sites and their affiliate web properties.