Like most individuals who have invested in a weekly blog, signed on to numerous consumer and business social networking sites, I’m curious if ‘buzz’ from my product reviews or my marketing ideas are making it virally to the web through social buzz.

If you want to gauge how your ideas are spreading, you can take a look at a couple of sites that track several social media sites. Take a look at surchur.com, which returns results including photos, videos, products, blog posts, and news about what is happening right now online.

The next site to check out is serph.com, which says that it will, "track buzz in real time." Type in your keywords into either of these sites and find out who's talking about your product or idea.

For example, after typing in my URL, I found that serph.com recognized my blog topic on Amazon’s e-book “Kindle” – a product that is getting quite a bit of buzz these days. Discussing “Kindle” and sharing it with my network has elevated my blog and consequently, my business.

Best,

Denice MacDonald