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1. ShareThis
ShareThis is one of the most popular social media plugins. You likely have already seen it on someone's blog or a tutorial website. ShareThis has a simple application: it allows you to share a post with your friends or followers on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and several other social networks. It has a simple and compact interface and is highly configurable. When the plugin is embedded on your website, you can choose the list of social networks you want supported.

2. TweetMeme
The TweetMeme plugin took the blogosphere by storm a few years ago, quickly becoming one of the most popular social plugins for bloggers across several platforms. TweetMeme is a neatly designed, one-click way for your readers to share a post from your blog. It also offers link tracking capabilities, so you can keep track who posted posted your link on Twitter, as well as where and when it was posted.

3. SexyBookmarks
Aside from the nice name, the SexyBookmarks plugin offers a beautiful menu option for social bookmarking. SexyBookmarks is exactly what it sounds like, a sexy, new bookmark plugin. It's great on functionality and, if you keep the number of options to a minimum, it will only minimally interfere with your design -- often times it will fit right in. As a result your reader can simply click to add your article to social bookmarking sites like Twitter, Facebook, Digg, and Stumbleupon. If your article picks up momentum and goes viral, it can do great things for your traffic.

4. Socialble
In terms of what it does, the Sociable plugin is quite similar to the AddThis and ShareThis plugins. It adds a link and share icons to the bottom of your blog posts and pages to make it easy for your visitors to share your content through their favorite social network. However, what sets this plugin apart from the other two is the flexibility it offers. Whereas the other two plugins have gained in popularity with ease of use, the Sociable plugin offers a great deal of flexibility to the user. You can change the order of the social networks to which your readers can share your posts; you can change the way the icon reacts to a mouse cursor rollover; andyou can even have the share options appear in a pop-up window rather than as a spread out menu. Another great customization is the ability to use your own icons instead of the boring standard ones.

5. Facebook Social Widgets
This plugin is a bit like a Swiss Army Knife. It has a whole set of Facebook tools such a the Like and Recommendation buttons, the single sign-on for comments, and many more offerings. As these tools are hosted and provided by Facebook, the widgets are personalized for all users who are logged into Facebook -- even if the users haven't yet signed up for your site. As a result, the plugin provides total integration with Facebook.

The Like and Recommend buttons allow readers to share a post with their social circle, the Like Box widget creates a button on your website that allows users to add your blog's FaceBook Page to the list of pages they Like, while the Activity Feed allows your readers to view the activity of their social circle on your website.

The two features of this plugin that I really like are the single sign-on with Facebook, which allows readers to leave comments with their Facebook login, and the Live Stream. The Live Stream plugin lets your readers share their activities and comments in real-time as they interact during a live event, which is a great way to have interactivity.

6. Intense Debate Comments
The Intense Debate Comments, as the name suggests, is a plugin that allows your readers to get involved in your stories and articles. They can start a conversation by adding comments to your posts. What makes this plugin very useful is that it allows -- and even encourages -- users to participate by allowing them to following up on a comment-based conversation, even by posting email and sending them updates. It also has great Twitter integration, allowing users to post via Twitter if they like.