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Does this sound familiar to you at all? I used to log in to each and every individual social platform to compose new posts, check what’s happening in my streams, follow up on conversations and follower requests, and attempt to manually perform all other bits of social media management that was on my plate.Then, I switched to using tools, and my productivity has soared. Maximizing your time as a social media manager or business owner is crucial for social media growth and effectiveness. I’d love to share my 6 favorite tools for helping you along in that journey....
In online marketing, having the right analytics tools and software can make a major difference. A good program can save you time and help demonstrate the value of your work to supervisors or clients.
Over the last couple of months, while preparing the syllabus for my next UC San Diego class and doing research for clients, I compiled and reviewed an extensive list of analytics programs for SEO and social media. I’m sharing what resulted in this column....
Tools are meant to save your time and extra efforts of doing the same thing, I love tools a lot and can’t see myself breathing digital marketing without tools. Here I have curated the list of 300+ handy tools for all you marketers and tech entrepreneurs to save your time and efforts.
Even if managing social media is your full time job, juggling different tasks throughout the day can be a challenge. From content curation to posting and analyzing your performance, it is important to keep your social media management simple and effective.Luckily, there’s a bunch of tools out there to help you simplify your social media management save lots of time every day. Take a look at seven of my most favorite tools of daily quick and effective social media management....
Are you looking for some new social media tools to add to your arsenal?
Every day, we come across new tools and, each quarter, we write a post where we share some really interesting tools that we have come across. Some of these tools are new, some are in beta and some have been around for a while but we have only recently discovered them.
I’m sure you’ll find something in this list that will help your business!...
Want to make significant improvements to your social media presence to-day?
At the Social Media Marketing World conference in San Diego last week I presented to a packed room about a range of tools to optimize social media performance.
It contained a range of really interesting and useful tools to help you target the right people, get better results with your content, convert more traffic and improve results.
Best free downloadable and web-based video conferencing tools for holding multi-party video calls
Via Jim Lerman, Tim Pixley
A complete three-lens optical system for serious iPhoneographers... iPhone Lens Dial: Is this the coolest iPhone photography accessory or what? This perfect for quick and dirty pics for PR, blogging or what have you. Of course it also means you have the perfect excuse for avoiding calls from your mother-in-law, boss or your spouse with that grocery list. "Uh sorry dear, I'm taking pictures right now!" ;-)
Robin Good: Readlists is a simple web app which allows you to easily create curated lists of web resources, articles and links and bundle them to a downloadable eBook.
"A Readlist is a group of web pages—articles, recipes, course materials, anything—bundled into an e-book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone." To create a "Readlist" you simply click on the Create a Readlist button and add one url at a time. The system gently grabs metadata info like title and author and elegatly lays it out in an ebook formatted reading index ready to be published. The service is free to use. Try it out now: http://readlists.com [This is is cool tool for readers, researchers, PR pros - JD]
Via Robin Good, Giuseppe Mauriello
A yet-to-be-launched tool called Meograph promises to let you easily “create, playback and share beautiful stories in the context of when and where.” It’s a tool that’s still in pre-beta, but journalists and news organizations can get priority access for an invite. Meograph released a demo of what the tool can do, using the fictional KVWM San Diego TV station as an example use case. Based on the examples, I wouldn’t yet call the resulting product “beautiful,” but the storytelling format is a compelling mishmash: timeline + audio + Google Maps + images + video+ hyperlinks (for adding more context and linking to stories)....
...Curating content done properly, IMO has its positives. I do it here on iblogzone, via my weekly speedlinks (weekly roundups). With so much information out there, this is one method where users are starting to see its advantages, due to its objective of “finding the best content about a certain topic”, combining them together, and letting like minded people to know about them. Really great to filter out the noise, and useless content.... Did you notice the words, meaningful, great information and credit your sources? That’s the essence of being a great content curator and nothing else.... [Useful article and great summary of seven free content curation tools - JD ]
Robin Good: Curate.me is a customizable personal news briefing service that allows you to define up to ten specific interests/topics you want to monitor, and to schedule which days and what time your news brief is to be delivered. The generated custom news brief are delivered to you via email (each email includes 10-12 links from the topics you've selected) and can be read also in your preferred browser or iPhone. For each one of the up to ten topics selected you can specify the degree of importance to you. As a user you can create as many custom news briefs as you like, each one with a specific set of topics and delivery schedule.
Free to use.
Try it out now: http://curate.me/ ;
Via Robin Good
When you’re just getting started with content marketing, you might not necessarily be aware of the tools that are out there and available to you. Once you establish yourself and start to try out and get used to different technologies, you’ll find that many of the tools you’ll want to use are paid. That is not, however, to say that there aren’t some very good free tools out there too (and everyone likes when “free” and “powerful” come together, right?) So here we go: through the basic outline of your content strategy, here are 37 must-haves for your content marketing toolbox. Keep in mind that all of these have free versions (though you might eventually decide the paid version better suits your needs)....
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Is social media part of your marketing strategy? If it is, you know how hard it can be to keep up with all of the latest news from the different social platforms. Things changing constantly can make it difficult to craft a cohesive social media marketing strategy for your business. Have no fear – I’ve put together 50 amazing social media marketing ideas, strategies & tips to help you put together a successful social media marketing plan. I’ll cover 10 takeaways each for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube....
As the co-founder of the Social Tools Summit, the first social media conference devoted entirely to social media tools, how they can benefit your social media program, and best practices in utilizing them, it is my job to audit the entire social media for business universe and create sessions based on the types of social media tools that are becoming mainstream in the corporate world.
This is the background to the 10 sessions revolving around social media tools that were just announced for the upcoming Social Tools Summit taking place in San Francisco, CA on October 27 and 28, 2015....
So here it is, my ultimate list of image creation tools, image editors, free stock imagery sources, infographic creators, some miscellaneous resources, and the one premium tool that’s actually worth paying for. This isn’t just another list of every single image creation tool out there. These are the services and resources that I've handpicked. These have stood the test of time (at least until Saturday, May 16, 2015) and are the easiest to use....
Twitter is chaos, but in the midst of this beautiful mess is a ton of data that if you can understand it. If you ever wanted the complete Twitter toolbox this is the post for you. It's got 80 Twitter tools that can help you do everything you need in this busy social media channel.
...No matter where you are, it’s imperative that you connect with both your customers and employees on the go. To provide excellent customer service, put quality behind your brand, and demonstrate that you are with your customer every step of the way, you and your employees have to connect with them on nearly every level. Local marketing,social media, and content are just a few of the channels you can optimize with tools to stay connected.
In this post, we’ve gathered the top 20 social tools that keep your team alert and on task.
Why join storination? To create in less than a minute a beautiful Storyboard with awesome content curated by you and others.
Storination lets you create online communities called a Nation, where people share social stories on the same topic. After opening your Nation, you organize your Storyboard, a virtual space where anybody can contribute by adding his own Storify story.
How to start a Nation ? Connect with your twitter account and open your first Nation. A Nation is an online community on any kind of topic. It's a space where you and other people add into a storyboard social stories. Customize your Nation like a blog by uploading a logo, and a large cover. Now, you can publish a Storify story by collecting photos, video, tweets... or If you prefer, just import social stories directly from Storify to your Nation.
Pinterest and Instagram have been two of the hottest social platforms of 2012. Their success has spawned hundreds of imitations, with developers (and investors) trying to get a piece ...
of the increasingly lucrative image sharing pie. We’ve even seen a mash up of the two in the form of the aptly titled Pinstagram (genius, I know).
But now its time to wrap your head the next emerging trend; video sharing apps (or ‘Instagram for video’ apps). The big question is, which one will emerge as the superstar of the pack? Well, let’s meet ‘the pack’ and then you can decide for yourself. Ready? Lights. Camera. Action! [Adam Vincenzini profiles 10 video apps worth exploring - JD]
Excerpted from article: "Qwiki, the start-up known for creating automated multimedia presentations, is launching a new media format that allows publishers, bloggers, web personalities and others to create 60-second video stories that are embedded with other videos, images, maps and links. It’s like an interactive video slideshow that lets users click on other content throughout a narrated story, so they can choose how deep they want to experience the content. The service goes into private testing today with some early users and is expected to open to the public in a couple of weeks. Users can put together a Qwiki by arranging images, videos and maps and other content into six frames. Each frame can be further edited with a caption and embedded with more images, Tweets, maps and links taken from sources such as YouTube, Flickr, Google Maps and other sources including their personal content. When the media content is laid down, a user records a 60-second narration for the story with the option of appearing in a small window throughout the Qwiki. The creator decides when to advance each frame. Imbruce, Founder and CEO, said: "there are many more features to be added that could make Qwiki even more attractive to its creators and users. Right now, creators can only tell a 60-second story. But with the ability to add more content, it could really be the starting point for a bigger story. I think over time, Qwiki might be better served by allowing people the option to make videos a little longer. New online tools, such as Pinterest, are already showing us that self-expression and curation are now very popular. I think it’s logical that a simple tool for mixing video, images and online content could also attract an audience..." Read full article:
http://gigaom.com/2012/05/23/qwiki-launches-interactive-story-telling-platform-with-abc-news/ Check out it: http://www.qwiki.com [This another cool tool with potential for PR, contentmarketing pros - JD]
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
While video lovers have gotten more social services that highlight interesting clips, it's still hard to construct a more comprehensive look at video news. That’s the gap that New York state startup Newslook is trying to fill with a new iPad app that allows users to construct channels of their favorite news subjects on the fly....
Do you have a favorite writer? Are you looking for another one? Visit our Writers page to discover Most Read, Featured, and Up & Coming Writers. Or visit your favorite authors’ own pages, where our editors have hand-picked the very best stories for you to enjoy. Read on for notable stories from our favorite authors.... [Awesome reading, story suggestions from Byliner. Just in time for the long weekend - JD]
Pinterest is a great social networking site, but it is definitely still young and lacking in some features. ...If you’d like the Pinterest experience but with more features, you can either use an entirely different Pinterest alternative, or you can try using one of these Pinterest-based tools.
This collection has a huge variety of tools, including ways to explore, discover, analyze and more. There are even a few browser plug-ins to really make your Pinterest experience worthwhile. These tools definitely give Pinterest a whole new layer of functionality and you’re sure to find at least one you don’t know how you ever pinned without. Read on to learn about 10 of my favorite Pinterest tools....
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Buffer shares six useful social media tools.