Whet­her you want to lose weight, get in shape, man­age your time or money, live a more sus­tain­able or phil­an­thropic life, or quit smok­ing, chances are there is a Web 2.0 tool out there to help you suc­ceed with your 2010 new year’s resolution.

Here is a list of some of the top-rated sites for help­ing you achieve some of the res­o­lu­tions most often made: weight loss, health­ier liv­ing, quit­ting smok­ing, phil­an­thropy, and bet­ter money and time man­age­ment. And if you don’t have a res­o­lu­tion yet, per­haps this list can help you find a wor­thy one!

Inclu­sion in this list is based on how well a tool is rated in com­mon review sites and the cost of a tool’s ser­vice. Rea­son­ably priced ser­vices and sites that offer a free ver­sion were more likely to make the list, as were sites that offer some sort of col­lab­o­ra­tion or inter­ac­tiv­ity when applicable.

Weight loss & fitness

beYOU.tv offers fit­ness and well­ness videos rang­ing from yoga to boot camp, pilates to med­i­ta­tion. Videos may be watched for free with adver­tis­ing or pur­chased and downloaded.

Body­Dae­mon is a free lifestyle mon­i­tor­ing tool that allows mem­bers to record their work­outs, food, body, goals, injuries and lots more. Share as much or as lit­tle infor­ma­tion as you like. Mem­bers can update their jour­nal via the Web­site, your Face­book appli­ca­tion or mobile phone.

Extra­pounds is a free online weight loss com­mu­nity that pro­vides you with weight loss tools to help you stick to your diet plans. It is where Extra­pounds mem­bers share their expe­ri­ences and sup­port one another on their jour­neys to becom­ing weight loss suc­cess stories.

Fit­ness Jour­nal is designed to enhance any diet or exer­cise pro­gram. They do not tell you what to eat or how to work­out. Fit­ness Jour­nal allows you an easy, inter­ac­tive way to man­age your work­out and diet infor­ma­tion. Their soft­ware will help you focus on the end result, and moti­vate you to keep mov­ing in the right direction.

Pro­jectWeight­Loss is an online com­mu­nity of users look­ing to achieve a health­ier lifestyle. It offers tools to help you count your calo­ries, decide on a diet pro­gram and a fit­ness pro­gram, and eval­u­ate where you stand weight-wise. Plus, you’ll be in con­tact with a lot of like-minded people.

SparkPeople’s mis­sion is to SPARK mil­lions of PEOPLE to reach their goals and lead health­ier lives. They offer nutri­tion, health, and fit­ness tools; sup­port; and resources that are free. Their weight loss pro­gram teaches peo­ple to stop diet­ing and tran­si­tion to a per­ma­nent, healthy lifestyle.

Thin­topia is an online com­mu­nity with the pur­pose of help­ing each mem­ber reach his/her weight loss goals. They are ded­i­cated to pro­vid­ing ser­vices the com­mu­nity needs to moti­vate, inspire, and edu­cate each other. The main ser­vice they pro­vide is free weight loss competitions.

Traineo’s mis­sion is to cre­ate the most effec­tive health and fit­ness com­mu­nity on the Web by com­bin­ing the lat­est soft­ware tech­nol­ogy with sound infor­ma­tion and ser­vices from the world’s lead­ing health and fit­ness experts. Traineo is the cul­mi­na­tion of over six years of devel­op­ment, test­ing, and focus group stud­ies in part­ner­ship with lead­ing experts in weight loss, health, sports, and fitness.

Healthy & sus­tain­able living

Five­limes is an entirely user-generated com­mu­nity that acts as your inde­pen­dent resource for infor­ma­tion on the lat­est eco-friendly and socially respon­si­ble prod­ucts and ser­vices. Our mis­sion is to make the job of find­ing, dis­cussing, com­par­ing, and shop­ping for green prod­ucts and ser­vices around the world extremely easy. The more peo­ple act­ing together, the greater our impact will be.

Green Map Sys­tem ener­gizes a diverse global move­ment of local map-making teams chart­ing their community’s nat­ural, cul­tural, and green liv­ing resources with uni­ver­sal icons and adapt­able multi-lingual resources. Explore hun­dreds of perspective-changing Green Maps cre­ated by local Map teams in 50 countries.

Browse through LIME for healthy liv­ing resources. Read about healthy food, health, and bal­ance. Meet new peo­ple and view the top top­ics. Access the food sec­tion for recipes, food videos, food fea­tures, and news feeds.

rVita lever­ages Web 2.0 by bring­ing the power of mash ups, user-generated con­tent, and com­mu­nity to the inte­gra­tive med­i­cine world. The site’s key fea­tures include reputed con­tent about inte­gra­tive ther­a­pies, a trusted prac­ti­tioner net­work so you can find the best provider near you, and valu­able feed­back from other con­sumers and experts about what reme­dies really worked for them.

Quit­ting smoking

The iPhone appli­ca­tion My Quit­Line puts you in touch with free expert advice to help you quit smok­ing. This appli­ca­tion con­nects you—by phone or by live help—with a trained quit smok­ing coun­selor at the National Can­cer Insti­tute Quitline.

Quit­Meter is a count­down and track­ing wid­get that you can save to your desk­top or embed on other social sites like Face­book or Friend­ster. It helps you keep track of how many cig­a­rettes you have not smoked and how much money you have saved—in real time.

Qwit­ter is a social tool designed to help you quit smok­ing. Quit­ter is the Web 2.0 way to quit smok­ing. It’s a social tool sup­ported by Twit­ter, so you can have your whole Twit­ter entourage and the Twit­ter com­mu­nity at large help you quit smoking.

Phil­an­thropy

Bet­ter The World is a plat­form that will let any­body sup­port any cause he finds worth­while just by brows­ing the Web. Users down­load a side­bar that will be employed to dis­play rel­e­vant ads while they are surf­ing the Web. Char­i­ties span­ning the whole world have part­nered with the com­pany in order to give users every­where many options to choose from.

Care2 pro­vides pow­er­ful tools to make a dif­fer­ence in your life, your com­mu­nity, and the world. The Web­site is dri­ven by pas­sion­ate peo­ple (like you) who want to restore the world’s bal­ance. They’re com­mit­ted to using the power of busi­ness to make a pos­i­tive social and earth-friendly impact on the world.

Do Some­thing believes you have the power to make a dif­fer­ence. Their aim is to inspire, sup­port, and cel­e­brate a gen­er­a­tion of doers: peo­ple who see the need to do some­thing, believe in their abil­ity to get it done, and then take action. They pro­vide the tools and resources for you to con­vert your ideas and energy into pos­i­tive action.

The mis­sion of Your­Cause is to empower indi­vid­u­als to change our world—leveraging their own voices, net­works, and spheres of influ­ence to improve the lives of oth­ers. The ded­i­cated and accom­plished Your­Cause team is com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing and facil­i­tat­ing the efforts of a car­ing mem­ber com­mu­nity and the causes they cham­pion so passionately.

Money, finances & debt management

Geezeo offers per­sonal finance money man­age­ment tools to con­sumers for free, but they also have what they call a “com­mu­nity of moti­va­tors” where you can ask and answer finan­cial ques­tions in a forum setting.

Green Sherpa looks like a bud­get­ing solu­tion but is really a qual­ity of life upgrade. View your money data in a cash flow for­mat for pow­er­ful and trans­par­ent finan­cial track­ing, fore­cast­ing, and finan­cial report­ing. You also can invite a team to help you: Green Sherpa enables users to col­lab­o­rate with finan­cial part­ners, per­sonal or pro­fes­sional, in order to make bet­ter finan­cial decisions.

Mon­ey­trackin’ is a free online Web appli­ca­tion that allows you to track all your expenses and income eas­ily and with­out effort, thus allow­ing you to have a clear view of your finan­cial sit­u­a­tion. Their users build sav­ing col­lec­tive knowl­edge by shar­ing both global and local tips. These tips can be dis­cussed by the com­mu­nity itself using comments.

Wesabe offers the same expense track­ing and bud­get man­age­ment fea­tures as other per­sonal finan­cial man­age­ment tools, but they also offer a way for peo­ple to share their expe­ri­ence and ben­e­fit from the lessons of others.

Time man­age­ment & productivity

From Base­camp: For years project man­age­ment soft­ware was about charts, graphs, and stats. And you know what? It didn’t work. Pic­tures and num­bers don’t get projects done. Base­camp tack­les project man­age­ment from an entirely dif­fer­ent angle: A focus on com­mu­ni­ca­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion. Base­camp brings peo­ple together.

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time com­mu­ni­ca­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion. A wave (logo at right) can be both a con­ver­sa­tion and a doc­u­ment where peo­ple can dis­cuss and work together using richly for­mat­ted text, pho­tos, videos, maps, and more. It’s still invitation-only to use the app but you can likely eas­ily find a friend who has an invite.

Google Apps is a Web-based hosted solu­tion, which means you can access Google Apps at any time, any­where you have an Inter­net con­nec­tion and store your con­tent right on their servers. You might hear this type of tech­nol­ogy referred to as “software-as-a-service” or “cloud com­put­ing.” Appli­ca­tions offered include Gmail for busi­ness, Google Cal­en­dar, Google Docs, Google Groups, Google Sites, and Google Video.

From Now­DoThis: how do you orga­nize your day? A cal­en­dar requires you to pre­dict the unpre­dictable. A to-do list can over­whelm you with data. I wanted a “boss” to tell me what to do. Enjoy this free tool.

Res­cue­Time is a Web-based time-management tool that allows you to eas­ily under­stand how you spend your time. Your time gets tracked down to the sec­ond with­out you hav­ing to actively track it. Instantly know how much time you’re spend­ing on a par­tic­u­lar appli­ca­tion (like “Microsoft Word”), site (like “Google.com”) or a cat­e­gory (like “Communication”).

Team­work Project Man­ager is an easy-to-use online team­work and project man­age­ment soft­ware appli­ca­tion that helps man­agers, staff, and clients work together more pro­duc­tively online.

So there you have it. No excuses my real-time friend. Make your new year Web 2.0 accom­plished!Deltina Hay is the prin­ci­pal of Dal­ton Pub­lish­ing and Social Media Power and founder of the new social media Web­site ser­vice Plumb Social. Ms. Hay’s grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion in com­puter sci­ence, applied math­e­mat­ics and psy­chol­ogy led her nat­u­rally to social media con­sult­ing. Her crit­i­cally acclaimed book A Sur­vival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Opti­miza­tion can be found or requested any­where books are sold. Con­tact her or leave a com­ment below.