Social media expert Bardi Toto has selected Kapitall as one of the top 25 sites for financial professionals, citing our unique gaming approach to trading and aptitude for connecting like-minded investors.  Other standouts in the Investment category are: Feed the Bull, inviting lively discussion with its "bullish" vote button; Value Investing News, with the added bonus that users get a share of AdSense revenue; Stockpicker and Covestor, both allowing users to follow professional portfolios upon which to model their own; Social Picks and Stock Twits, which both track your favorite tickers on Twitter and help you find stock tips; and WikInvest, offering bearish and bullish arguments in addition to providing detailed company information and the latest on a number of investment sectors.

According to Toto, the best General Finance News sites are Tip'd Finance News, PF Buzz, Reddit (Financial Planning), Mixx, Twinancial and Wisebread.  Their approaches vary slightly (PF Buzz takes a personal finance angle, Twinancial keeps finance tweets in one place and Wisebread has a cool interactive forum), but all excel at providing a great overview of the day's top headlines. 

Toto's picks for best budget/money management are: Wesabe, a great site for making connections within its community; MoneyStrands, which allows users to easily manage money, even on-the-go; We, the Savers, geared toward connecting fellow fiscally-responsible individuals; and Google Tip Jar, a community pot of money-saving tips that users can add or take from. 

For professionals looking to promote their financial services, Toto recommends: LinkedIn's Social Media and Web 2.0 in Banking and Financial Services Group; IFA Life, a great site for financial planners, wealther managers and financial advisors to interact; and Voyant, offering money management software and a place to market one's services. Rounding out the top five are ActiveRain and Sexy Insurance, tailored respectively to real estate and insurance industry professionals.

Toto caps her list with two sites that don't specialize in business or finance, but are tremendously useful for offering a broader perspective. StumbleUpon allows the user to either literally "stumble upon" a random sampling of financial websites, or streamline selections according to popularity; and Kirtsy, aimed at women, often publishes financial articles in a variety of categories, not just business and politics as per the usual.