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Looking for a more powerful way to share presentations online? Consolidate your online profiles and social networking presence? Create a cool Twiiter background even if you’re not the artistic type? Generate word-of-word referrals? Use social media more effectively for research?

You’ll find tools for all of those tasks and others in this collection of more of the best cool online tools.

SlideSix

SlideSix is a multimedia presentation sharing site, designed to be SlideShare on steroids. You can upload presentations, record audio narration, and attach videos, all on the site. SlideSix lets you upload PowerPoint, PDF or OpenOffice presentations, mix in videos from YouTube or Vimeo, and share your presentations with groups.

PeoplePond

PeoplePond is a secure social profile site that can be connected to your Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts. It’s an important place to have a profile listed for anyone concerned with online reputation management. The creators of PeoplePond more recently also launched CompanyPond, a company profile site that improves online visibility and SEO for corporate sites.

DandyID

Another service that allows individuals to collect all of their social media profiles in one place, verify their identity, and track activity on those profiles. And, tired of filling out the same information over and over for each new social networking or profile site? DandyID “provides you with a globally recognizable profile that you only need to fill out once. The profile then follows you around the web and automatically appears on DandyID-enabled sites.”

My Tweet Space

For anyone who wants a cool, custom Twitter background but is design-challenged, My Tweet Space provides a wide selection of free and low-cost professionally designed backgrounds to enhance one’s Twitter presence.

Tell A Friend

TAF offers free and fee-based tools to help companies capitalize on word-of-mouth (or word-of-web) marketing. Their suite of apps ranges from simple branded buttons to social commerce tools, advertising and social rewards programs.

Mixxr

This is a cool alternative search engine that lets you search Google, Yahoo, Bing and Twitter simultaneously. Great for viewing the differences between “traditional” and real-time search results.

Bing Tips & Tricks by Digitial Inspiration

There have lots of posts written about Google search tricks, but in this piece, Amit Agarwal shows how to perform tasks like tracking companies, finding MP3 files and even setting up an RSS feed of search results (something that can’t be done with Google or Yahoo!) with Bing.

100 Tips and Tools to Research the Social Web by Select Courses

An outstanding list of tips and tools for using social media to conduct both primary and secondary research, monitor trends, create alerts, analyze information and organize your data.

Previous posts in this series:

Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 1
Best of 2009 (S0 Far): AdWords Tips and Tactics, Part 1
Best of 2009 (So Far): Blogging for Business, Part 1
Best of 2009 (So Far): SEO Guidance, Part 1
Best of 2009 (So Far): Cool Web Tools, Part 1
Best of 2009 (So Far): Twitter Tips and Tactics, Part 1
Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 2
Best of 2009 (So Far): AdWords Tips and Tactics, Part 2
Best of 2009 (So Far): SEO Guidance, Part 2

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Cool Web Tools, Part 2

Never one to be left behind when it comes to offering solutions for the most prevalent issues facing enterprises today, IBM has come out with a whole new slew of solutions designed to help get your content under control.

Pick just one product or mix and match to suit your business needs.

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Take Control of Content with New IBM Solutions

Vital Path, a developer of content integration and migration software, recently announced enhanced federated records management capabilities for PathBuilder. PathBuilder now enables organizations to efficiently perform records management tasks with multiple repositories without requiring them to abandon existing records management investments.

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Federate your Records with PathBuilder

Kentico Software, a Web CMS vendor, was named Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Rising Star. The vendor was ranked as the 5th fastest growing young technology company in Central Europe, after achieving a whopping 553% three-year growth.

The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 annual award honors the fastest growing Central European technology companies, based on the percentage of operational revenue growth. The Rising Stars nod is given to hyper-active young technology companies, if they meet the same criteria necessary for the Technology Fast 50 with the exception of revenues.

Since releasing the first version of its ASP.NET-based Kentico CMS in August 2004, this Czech vendor managed to rack up such prominent clients as Bayer, Gibson Musical Instruments and Guinness — to name a few.

Want to get a closer look at Kentico CMS? The product will be showcased at the upcoming Microsoft Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles and at the Gilbane Conference in Boston.

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Kentico Rises to Deloitte Stars

Ah, yes, another wonderful Webinar for the viewing pleasure of those who are curious about how technology can help businesses grow and function more efficiently.

This upcoming Webinar by XyEnterprise, Component Content Management In Action: Delivering on the Promise of XML, focuses on how businesses can utilize XML and structured content in combination with frameworks (such as DITA and S1000D), processes and technologies to create and realize value.

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Webinar: Component Content Management in Action