If you are responsible for marketing in your company, you need to have the best, latest and most vibrant information you can get.  That information is available on NING.  No, not RING, not BLING, NING! The social networking mega site, offers users the opportunity to create and manage their own social networks, the result is an onslaught of targeted and up to date information.  Here are the top six sites you have to join today.

1. Marketing 2.0http://www.marketingtwo.net/

The Marketing 2.0 Group is meant to be an open discussion about the Future of Marketing. We’re way beyond color copies of fliers stuck under windshield wipers, folks! Where is it going? What needs to change? How to build predictable communities?

2. Virtual Response Marketing Loungehttp://vrlounge.ning.com/

A vibrant community, where you can get peer to peer help with just about every online marketing question you can think of: maybe even “How do I sell ice cream to Eskimos?”

3. The Email Marketers Clubhttp://www.emailmarketersclub.com/

If you do any sort of email marketing campaign, you should check out these forums.  There is more information here then you could possibly imagine.

4. Ad Gabberhttp://www.adgabber.com/

You want help finding out where to advertise, TV, Radio, Billboard, maybe even Bathroom walls or posters above urinals etc.. then this group is the answer.  The insights are helpful and spot on.

5. Event Peepshttp://www.eventpeeps.com/

This group is unique.  It focuses on event planners and those hearty souls who travel from trade show to trade show hawking their wears.  Demo Dollies unite!

6. Ad Week Media Connecthttp://www.adweekmediaconnect.com/

As a member of AdweekMedia Connect you get access to the most up to date Nielsen Consumer Insights 24 hours earlier than anybody else!