The best way that you can capitalize on social media and social networking is to integrate the various networks into one another. That’s why so many people decide to provide links to their LinkedIn accounts on their Facebook accounts and why they choose to send out a quick update on Twitter if they just uploaded a new video on YouTube. In like manner, you may want to find the best way to integrate Twitter on your blog.

There are many options in this arena. One of the newest to join this foray is the Twitter Goodies Plugin by Arpit Shah. Instead of creating a static text update in the sidebar of your blog that only loads once, the Twitter Goodies Plugin creates a dynamic widget in your sidebar that refreshes automatically. This way, the entire page does not need to be reloaded in order for your latest tweets to be displayed.

Further still, readers of your blog will find that when they hover the mouse pointer over any of your displayed tweets, a “reply” link will show up that will automatically redirect them (in a new window) to the Twitter website to reply to your tweet. Other highlights include the embedding of user avatars and the ability to specify the width and height of the Twitter Goodies WordPress plugin.

For more information and to download the plugin, check out the official page at Crunchmeme.com.