I have noticed a trend on the Web lately: Non-blogging content creators.

This may seem obvious but most of the people I knew who used “Web 2.0″ services had blogs. But as more and more Web 2.0 tools go mainstream, they are being used by people who don’t blog. Thousands of people creating and sharing their thoughts and ideas without centralizing all of their contrabutions. Bloggers tend to aggregate most of that content into their blog somehow.

Some of these services seem obvious: I’m sure del.icio.us and Flickr have more non-blogging users than blogging users. Sites like StumbleUpon and Twitter, which are a little more geeky, are also seeing a rise in non-blogging users.

So today’s homework assignment is dedicated to the non-blogger out there. (Note: bloggers can use this just as much as non-blogger.)

The goal of today’s homework is to help you maximize and aggregate your online content creation.

Social Bookmarking

For those of you using services del.icio.us or Diigo I’ve posted before about how to get the most out of your bookmarking but also how to make your bookmarking more social.

Whenever possible avoid leaving the notes section blank. The notes section is not only a huge benefit to your network and the larger community, it’s also a huge benefit to yourself. If you’re not going to use the notes why not just use your browsers bookmarks?

The same is true for people who use StumbleUpon or share something with Google Reader Notes. I talked in more detail about how to get the most out of Google Reader Notes using FriendFeed.

Flickr, YouTube and your cell phone

I’ve become a total addict to using my camera phone and Flickr. You can set up your Flickr account to receive MMS pictures via your camera phone. And while I haven’t tried it out yet you can also send video from your camera phone to YouTube.

Bringing it all together with FriendFeed

There’s a lot of buzz around FriendFeed but what the non-bloggers need to be concerned about is it becomes a great way to aggregate all of your online activity into one feed (you can also use Tumblr but it limits the amount of feeds you can add and doesn’t have the commenting feature FriendFeed has). Flickr, del.ico.us, YouTube, Google Reader, StumbleUpon as well as Twitter and blog feeds (for those of who blog).

What some people may not be aware of is that it also aggregates your LinkedIn and Facebook updates, Amazon wish list and Netflix queue. There are currently 35 services that FriendFeed pulls. Plus anything with an RSS feed you can pull in. (You can see my FriendFeed here.)

What about all that other content?

What about that Wikipedia page you decided to create or the blog comment you left? Bookmark them. Using your bookmarking service of choice tag it and it will get picked up in your FriendFeed.

I’ve been very curious about non-blogging content creators, I actually think it’s kind of cool. You’re out there in stealth mode and most people don’t realize it yet.

If you have any tips I left out feel free to share them in the comments.

If you’re a non-blogging content creator I’d love to hear your thoughts on how many services you use and if you see any value in a service like FriendFeed or not.

Technorati Tags: Flickr, FriendFeed, del.icio.us, Diigo, Tumblr, Twitter, LinkedIn, Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, StumbleUpon,

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