One tool that can help is from Social Mention (see socialmention.com). This will give you a scorecard of your current position across a big selection of social media sites and tools. Social Mention monitors 100+ social media properties directly including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google etc.

You can submit a query on the web page and also ask for daily reports to be emailed.

In Praeparo’s terms this is a must have in your marketing toolset and part of your brand monitoring efforts within your internet marketing strategy.

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This allows people to join the Coast Radar Community without the need to register by adopting a single-sign on using the facebook id. This allows community members to add beach details, activities and reviews and also push comments up to own facebook walls.

This is the first step in a tight integration to facebook by www.coastradar.com and the use of Coast Radar facebook Page.

The first step is consider what type of online presence you want, these fall roughly into 5 categories although a number of websites do offer more than one.

1. e-commerce:
   provision of products available to purchase online.
2. information:
   typically help to generate offline sales of services by providing information.
3. brand:
   focus is to support your brand.
4. portal:
   provision of news and information around a range of topics.
5. social networks or community:
   enables community interactions between different consumers.

All these categories influence in slightly different ways when it comes to website design, development, website launch, operational ongoing costs and marketing. For example, a brand building site needs less monthly work than an e-commerce or portal site which depend on fresh updated information.