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Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up (08-07-2010)
July 9th, 2010
Welcome to another instalment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up’.
1. Idea Informer is a great tool if you’re looking for feedback or ideas to increase the effectiveness of your website or product. Simply sign up, design your feedback form and add it to your site, the user can then ask for addition/suggestions to your website that can be voted for by other users.
2. PageModo is a fantastic way to spruce up your Facebook fan page. Traditionally you need to know FBML to add a nice looking page to your Facebook group, but PageModo takes away all the hassle leaving you to create a nice looking page without needing any specific coding skills.
3. Startpage UK is basically a load of links, but very helpful links!. The categories on the site cover every imaginable topic, click on one of the links and you’re taken to another page where that category is broken down even further. It doesn’t sound too impressive but go check it out, I’m sure you will be surprised!
4. Is also at. This is a very simple site, but very useful. Isalso.at is a web service that lets you access all of your social sites through a single launching pad. Useful to link to from your Twitter profile.
5. Lime Survey is a free highly customisable downloadable application used to create surveys. It come highly recommended and has one a number of awards.
Social Media post of the week: 4 Proven Steps to Facebook Page Success
SEO post of the week How To Make The Right Keyword Analysis For Your Website
More of the same next week.
Check out previous issues of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up’
Quarterly review of weekly social media sites and tools
April 7th, 2010
With over 3 months of the year gone already, I have revisited the Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up to offer a full rundown of the 65 social media tools that I’ve recommended in 2010, so far. Just in case you missed any!
1. BannerSnack is a fantasic tool that lets you create Flash web banners without the need for Flash knowledge. A free version is available where a small BannerSnack watermark is visible in the banner, while a branding-free version is on offer for a few dollars. Highly recommended.
2. Twitter Alerts allows you to receive Twitter messages via mobile phone (SMS), instant messenger or email. There is a small charge to receive via SMS.
3. Your Fonts enables you to create your own fonts in a few easy steps, which can then be used in programmes like Microsoft Word and Powerpoint. There is a small charge of $9.95 for the privilege.
4. This is a compendium of useful Facebook widgets from profile badges to Live Streams - very useful!
5. Interactive Buttons with Hit Counters are all the rage at the moment, and here are some of the best.
6. HeadWay is a WordPress plug-in that enables users with no coding knowledge to create a bespoke WordPress theme via an easy drag and drop process. There is a small fee to pay for the plug-in. Highly recommended.
7. T Lists is a very visual way of searching for Twitter lists. Just add your keyword to the search bar, wait for the results and finally follow or apply to the selected lists.
8. Twendly is a great way to find and connect with people on Twitter. Results are ranked in terms of relevancy to your given search term and the user’s level of activity over a 12-month period. Highly recommended.
9. If you like playing around with images but aren’t sure how to get some of the snazzy effects you see everywhere, Rollip might just be able to help. Upload your photo and select one of the 40 effects and add it to your image, simple.
10. TweetsQue, as the name suggests, lets you add Tweets and set time intervals for them to be Tweeted out.
11. Create your own iPhone or Android app for $25.00 - you have got be kidding right? That’s what iSites offers: “Create an iPhone app almost instantly! We take care of the app store submission in less than 24 hours”.
12. NutShell Mail has an interesting free Email Newsletter application for Facebook that enables your fans to keep track of new activity on your page.
13. Buzzom has a nice Twitter tool that give you a person’s Twitter score based on different criteria. These include influence, RT ratio, Tweet efficiency, RT rank and Following rank.
14. Vidinotes is a nice solution for getting video ‘How To’s’ down on paper. Simply upload your Flash video, capture a slide and add the notes to go with it. Finally download the PDF with the screenshot and accompanying note or print.
15. Twitcaps allows you to view real time images in Twitter as they are Tweeted. It also allows you to search for an image via keywords, locations or # then capture the image if you like it.
16. Tangler Live is a superb tool that allows you to have group conversation in real time. Create your room and then embed it into your post about the same event/issue - works great for live events when you want to speak to people interested in the same theme.
17. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine. Here is what the Guardian says: “”The Dutch website created by your unfriendly neighbourhood medialab moddr_ is designed to end users’ social lives on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn in a spectacular way.”
18. Avatara. Most people have seen the film Avatar, well now you can create your own avatar usable in over 30 online destinations including Facebook.
19. Sprout Pitch. Simply pitch your start-ups, projects and ideas to the world via video - “think elevator pitch”
20. Collecta Widget Builder lets you build customisable widgets for your website very easily. Just grab the code and embed it into your site!
21. Social Media comparison is first up today. Simply type in two competing search terms and see who comes out on top. After running the report you get a whole heap of visual results to show you who is top dog. Check out Apple Vs Microsoft.
22. Google Fight is a fun little keyword search tool. Add your two keywords and let them fight to the death, watch the fight sequence to see who wins or has the most search results. OJ Simpson vs Hommer Simpson.
23. Manage Tweets is a new tool that gives you an easily detectable way to find out who you follow, who isn’t following you back and which inactive accounts you follow. Recommended.
24. Social connector for Outlook is Microsoft’s attempt to make email more social. Currently it only supports LinkedIn but there are more to follow soon including Facebook. For a more in-depth overview and installation instruction check out the How to Geek blog.
25. Flavors.me is a great idea, and here’s what they say: “Flavors.me allows anyone to create an elegant website using personal content from around the internet. Ideal for personal homepages, lifestreaming, splash and microsites, celebrity fan pages, commercial promotion, brand marketing – and everything in between”.
26. Google Buzz Button Wordpress Plugin is first off the block today, originally designed by Mashable, now available for all you Wordpress bloggers.
27. Twiclur is a highly customisable Twitter widget that can be used to Tweet results from from your TwitterUserName, #Topic or @TwitterUserNam.
28. BlogBooker allows you to create a free high-quality PDF book of your blog posts including your comments, but only if you use Wordpress, Blogger or Live Journal.
29. Socialized Card is a page that has all your social/online identities. Great for something like Twitter where you can only add one link. View an example here.
30. Neat Chat is a very quick way of having a group chat - simply add a user name, click start and send the chatroom link around to the people you want in the group and off you go!
31. Type Tester is a neat tool that allows you to try out different text types, with various options such as size and spacing - great if you are a budding web designer.
32. Word It Out is a similar tool to the fantastic Wordle. You input your text into a box and it automatically creates a word cloud from your content that you can embed in your blog.
33. News Show Wizard is a Google tool that allows you to put a news widget on your site from pre-defined options including search impressions and style options.
34. Trends Buzz - what they say: “We are going to be yet another source of real time internet keyword snooping. In the first version we are going to gather hot topics from 6 different sources but there are more to come in the later stages”.
35. Sploder allows you to create you own Flash based platform or shooter game using a simple drag and drop system. Once the game is finished you can embed it into your own website.
36. Twitteronics is a Twitter analytics tool that will help you to track your brand’s presence on Twitter.
What they say: “Integrated Search, Automated Analysis, and Enhanced Reporting together with Influence Measures”.
37. Tweetbuzzer is a very visual tool. It constantly monitors Twitter for brand mentions, and shows some basic social media analytics such as daily mentions and the % of growth/decline.
38. Tweetalater is a simple Twitter site that translates your message into either:
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39. Tawidget is a nice visual events widget to showcase any up and coming events in your website or blog. The widget is highly customisable and links to your Twitter account.
40. Twitter Stats is a Twitter analytics tool for particular keywords (brand, product). It shows them visually on a timeline over a period of time.
41. Pressitt - full visability, this is a Liberate Media co-owned product. For those who don’t know Pressitt , it is a free Social Media News Release (SMNR) creation and publishing platform which has just come out of BETA with a multitude of new features.
42. The next tool is actually a WordPress plugin. Effective Calendar Plugin for WordPress allows you to display dates of events for example on your website.
43. QUDOS is a neat tool that allows you to measure your digital status and mange how you look online.
44. dlvr.it looks like an interesting tool that’s currently in public BETA, and here’s what they say: “dlvr.it provides bloggers, publishers and brands a way to instantly syndicate content and expand their reach on the social web and into new channels.
“Our tools make it easy to manage and measure the flow of your content everywhere your audience is. dlvr.it publishes your media, your blogs, all your content to your social channels, ensuring your audience sees it instantly.”
45. Want to know when your Twitter friends sleep? When do they sleep does just that, and checks your Tweeting patterns to determine when you’re in the land of nod.
46. TwilK is a Twitter tool that allows you to put your Twitter followers on your Twitter background.
47. This next one was pointed out by my colleague @liberatelloyd. PDF my URL does what it says on the tin. It PDFs any web page, and there is also a nice bookmarklet that you can add to your browser.
48. DoesFollow is a Twitter tool that quickly finds out if you are following someone or not - handy if you don’t want to go through a huge list of all your followers to find out.
49. Techweet is an aggregator of technology news. The homepage is separated into boxes, and each has a well known tech company sitting in it with their latest news. The thing I like most is the topics page which acts as an index. Here you can find the company you want, select it and review their latest news.
50. Scribble Maps is the quick and easy way to edit and share your map creations via a widget. Scribble allows you to add images, markers, text and shapes to your maps.
51. First off this week we have the newly announced Google Apps Marketplace. The Marketplace is full of useful additions/plugins to your existing Google suite of tools.
52. Giga Tweet is a live Twitter counter of how many Tweets have been sent and the ongoing number of Tweets being sent right now - interesting stuff!
53. A lot of noise can be heard about Foursquare. FourWhere is a mashup of both FourSquare and Google maps. What they say: “FourWhere helps you find places visited by Foursquare users, and read any comments/tips they made about these places”.
54. Base Kit allows you to create hosted websites from .psd files for £10.00 per month. So if you’re hot at designing in Photoshop but not so hot at coding, this could be a good alternative.
55. What do you suggest is a visual tool that uses Google’s suggestion feature. Type in a word or phrase, and then follow it to the answer. Very cool!
56. Stickr will let you post stickers on the Web. You can leave notes all over the Internet that track your activity, or that of your friends.View the video for a further overview.
57. Collecta #trends gives you top real-time trends right off the bat. Each trend gives you the latest photo, story, comment and update. Collecta can also be used for searching your own trends.
58. Trends is another real-time trending platform, which is more visual than Collecta and offers a good selection of topics to navigate. On clicking a trend you are presented with a wealth of information.
59. Toobla. What they say: “Get Visual. Easily collect, enjoy and share your favourite content, bookmarked websites and everything else.
50. Thumboo - simple to generate thumbnails via a submitted URL
61. First off today we have Wufoo a HTML simple form creation builder. Wufoo has a free option that includes: 1 3 Forms, 3 Reports, 10 Fields, 100 Entries / Month and a number of paid for plans for bigger sites. Check out the gallery for some examples. User,
62. Spezify is a fantastic visual search engine that produces results in the style of a mood board. It’s great for showing clients visual representation for what’s happening with your brands or products online. Recommended!
63. Strings caught my attention, here’s what they say: “Strings is a social tracking and filtering platform that allows you to share and uncover experiences that are relevant to you. Strings incorporates strong privacy controls, easy filtering, and tracking support that allows your actions on and offline to automatically identify personalised trends worth following.” It’s a free tool that’s currenly in BETA, look’s like it could be worth a trial.
64. Fliptop has two parts to it. One for publishers and one for consumers. In a nutshell it updates consumers via email when specfic content is updated to a website you enjoy reading. View the video for further details.
65. Hot blog or not? In their own words: “In one sentence, a platform specifically for bloggers to promote their articles and blogs including the possibility to find and build a network around their niche”
Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round up (27-11-2009)
November 27th, 2009
Welcome to another installment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round up’
1. First off today is Facebook Grader by Hubspot, it’s been around a while, but basically the idea is for you to Grade Facebook users or business pages, there is also a nice search tool that allows you to search Facebook members via keywords.
2. Graph Edge is a Twitter tool that drills down into your twitter feed looking at:
- How many of your followers you’re really reaching
- How quickly your network is growing (or shrinking!)
- Who’s dumping you
- Who your most influential followers are, and how to reach them
- Who else your followers are following
3. Twinked.in - Microblogging meets professional networking. Twinked.in is a resource for professionals that want more information on social networking. The site consists of a categorised blog, forum, jobs board and even a section to buy official Twinked.in merchandise!
4. Convoflow is an easy on the eye search bar that you add your keyword term to. You are then lead to the results page where all the results are laid out by a good number of blog, microblog, news, picture and video services.
5. Tweet Level is PR company Edelman’s Twitter reputation tool that measures an individual’s standing on Twitter. The tool offers you a score using the following metrics:
- Influence - How many people listen to your tweets and how influential are you. This is the primary ranking metric
- Popularity - how many people follow you
- Engagement - do you actively participate in your community
- Trust - do people believe what you say
Social Media post of the week: 300 Case Studies of Social Media Marketing
SEO post of the week: Ultimate Guide To Web Optimization (Tips & Best Practices)
More of the same next week.
Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round up (13-11-2009)
November 13th, 2009
Welcome to another instalment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round up’
1. Media on Twitter is a database of media and prominent bloggers divided by county. The database gives you the beat/title of the twitter user and the media outlet they are from.
2. Involver social media marketing experiences have a nice suite of free facebook apps including Twitter, You Tube channel and slide show to enhance your fanpage or group, they also have a selction of paid for apps.
3. Collecta monitors for real time information as it happens, it also monitors the update streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media, so we can show you results as they happen.
4. Twho is this? lets you find out more about those you are following by discovering which social networks they use.
5. Tvider is a neat little tool that allows you to share video, pictures and audio via uploaded files, which are then tweeted to your followers via your tweet.
Social Media post of the week: Not so much of a post but a blog. Check Facebook is a blog dedicated to all the latest happening in Facebook, one of the best features on this blog is at the top of the page where you are greeted by an interactive world map of current Facebook usage.
SEO post of the week: PRSA09: Top 10 SEO Tips for Public Relations
More of the same next week.
Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round up (30-10-2009)
October 30th, 2009
Welcome to another instalment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round up’
1. Twibes Twitter Groups, create your own tribe ‘twibe’ or sign up for an existing one. A twibe is a group of Twitter users interested in a common topic who would like to be able to communicate with each other.
2. istatz allows you to value your website based on a number of factors, including: Google PR | Alexa Rank | Compete Rank | Backlinks Checker | Server IP | Website Age | Domain Whois | Domain Creation and Expiration Dates | Estimating Web Traffic | Domain Value and Worth | Website Server Data | Analysing Potential Google Adsense Income and text Link Value | Check DMOZ Listing | Check Yahoo Listing | Reverse IP | Search Engines Backlinks | Number of Indexed Pages and more.
3. Schmaps is a nice tool that promotes your events via Twitter. You create your event page and that gets tweeted out via a tiny url. The event page consists of a map, i’ll be there section, your imported Twitter background and all the Twitter comments surrounding your event.
4. Wordpress TV is a platform to showcase all things Wordpress including how to’s, new technologies, and expert interviews. This should be your first port of call if you ever run into Wordpress issues!
5. Add new followers is a Twitter tool that automates the task of finding target followers based on keywords.
Social Media post of the week:33 Hot Social Media and Digital Marketing Tips (and 8 Killer Quotes)
SEO post of the week: The 30 Free SEO Tools You Must Know
More of the same next week.
Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round up (23-10-2009)
October 23rd, 2009
Welcome to another instalment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round up’
1. Google sites - “Google Sites is powerful enough for a company intranet, yet simple enough for a family website”
2. 10 years of boradband - Not really a tool, but a nice timeline of 10 years of broadband in the UK (client)
3. Score in the box - Type in a domain name and find out how a website scores. ScoreInTheBox uses a unique formula consisting of variables such as PageRank, backlinks and popularity to calculate a score for each website entered.
4. Google building maker - Building Maker is a 3D modelling tool for adding buildings to Google Earth. It’s fun to use, and an easy way to get on the 3D map. Select a city from around the world. Make a building with photos provided, save your building and it will be reviewed. See your 3D building in Google Earth.
5. Graffitter - Grafitter is a personal informatics tool for collecting and exploring information about your habits and patterns.
Social Media post of the week:Top ten social media presentations
SEO post of the week:The SEM Toolbox: 79 Tools and Tips Every Search Marketer Must Have
More of the same next week.
Social media business marketing examples resource wiki list
October 22nd, 2008
After reading a fantastic post by Peter Kim titled A List of Social Media Marketing Examples it was clear from the number of comments left on the blog post that people wanted to be added to the List.
Liberate Media has made that possible by taking the original list and making an editable wiki out of it. The wiki is called the social media business list.
Please feel free to add to the list with your business social media assets/activities.
The list contains some huge brands such as Adidas, Nike, Nokia and many other household names.
A special thanks to Peter Kim and all the other people that helped with the original post, we hope you don’t mind us re-purposing your fantastic list for everyone else to edit and add to.
Enjoy!
Liberate Media social media resource/research map
April 16th, 2008
Social media resource
The Liberate Media social media research/resources page is where we archive all our social media and web 2.0 resources/findings. There is a huge amount of resource to be looked at, so please feel free to dig around at your leisure.
Liberate Media is always keen to add to the social media resource with new posts, so please get in touch if you have something of value to add. - The resource map will be ever growing with new headings and links being added all the time.
The social media resource/research is very heavy due to large amount of archived resource, it takes a little while to appear, but please be patient, it’s well worth the wait!
To use the resource map simply hold the left mouse button down and scroll around until you see the section you want to look at. Click the bars next to the paper-clip to get a description of the archive, then click the paper-clip to get a list of posts in that resource.
To add the resource/research map copy and paste the code below into your blog:
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Weekly social media and web 2.0 news round up for week ending 11th April 2008
April 11th, 2008
We have been scouring the blogosphere all week for the best hot social media and web 2.0-related news and resources. We have also added all the new links to the Liberate Media resource/research page, - it’s a little slow to load but well worth the wait!
How to Get Customer Service via Twitter
A Guide To Twitter: What It Is, How To Use It And Twitter Tools
A List of Twitter Apps, Services and Tools
For some reason, Twitter hasn’t yet taken the journalist community by storm
Blogging
7 tips before building your blog
Blogging: Tips for Writing Your First Blog Post
Time.com’s First Annual Blog Index
Get Your Blog Google-Ranked In 30 Days or Less
Wikio Blog US: Top 50 Worldwide Most Influential Blogs of April
Practical Guide To Starting A Corporate Blog
SEO
The Beginner’s Checklist for Learning SEO
Other social media
Where To Upload Your Video Clips Online To Obtain Maximum Exposure And Visibility?
What is social media? -peoples definitions
6 Ways To Make Life Easier With Del.icio.us
Ultimate Social Media Resource List
How to Target the Right Social Media Sites
Facebook Chat Launches - First Impressions
Will the social media press release (SMPR) reach tipping point by the end of the year?
Social Media Networking and ROI: How to Maximize Value and Minimize Cost
Please tune in next friday for the next weekly round up…
12 social media tools to find people online!
March 26th, 2008
In our social media consultancy, we’re finding that target audiences for our clients are becoming more and more specific…sometimes down to a list of individuals. With the rise of social networks, it’s becoming possible to reach a group of individuals through PR, as opposed to the broad brush approach that is often applied to more traditional media.
As a result, we’ve spent some time refining the tools that we use to research particular individuals.
If you need to find the CEO of a particular company as a part of your research, or just want to find old friends and colleagues…check out the Liberate Media online people search tools!
XING -Find deals, employees, colleagues and jobs
Rapleaf - Lookup your information, Search for information about others, Manage your online privacy
PeopleFinders.com - The Web’s Largest People Search by Background Check, Public Records Search, and E-Mail Address
PeekYou - The Smartest People Search Online
Explode! - Search for interesting people
123people.com | Find everyone you (want to) know!
Pipl - The most comprehensive people search on the web
yoName - People search across social networks, blogs and more.
Wink People Search - Over 205,038,914 people on social networks and across the Web.
Spokeo - find your friends blogs and photos that you never knew they had
Upscoop - Import your email address book and discover which of your friends are on social networks…
The Internet Address Book - find, manage internet addresses all around the world
As always, any thoughts on the list or any tools we have missed please let us know.
All the above will go into our ongoing social media and web 2.0 research/resource page. Please check it out - it’s a little heavy now, but well worth the wait!