Posts Tagged ‘social media sites’
Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up (11-03-2010)
March 12th, 2010
Welcome to another instalment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up’.
1. 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.
2. 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!
3. 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”.
4. 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.
5. 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!
Social Media post of the week: 35 Great Social Media Infographics
SEO post of the week: How To: Search Engine Optimize Your Facebook Fan Page
More of the same social media sites and tools next week!
Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up (05-03-2010)
March 5th, 2010
Welcome to another instalment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up’.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Toobla. What they say: “Get Visual. Easily collect, enjoy and share your favourite content, bookmarked websites and everything else. Toobla helps you do it.”
Here is an example.
5. Thumboo - simple to generate thumbnails via a submitted URL
Social Media post of the week: If you missed it, here’s the link to the BIG social media quiz
SEO post of the week: Anatomy of a Hands-on SEO Site Audit – Part 1 Anatomy of a Hands-on SEO Audit – Part 2
More of the same social media sites and tools next week!
Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up (26-02-2010)
February 26th, 2010
Welcome to another instalment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up’.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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”.
My Flavors.me page links from my Twitter profile - check it out here.
Social Media post of the week: The 39 Social Media Tools I’ll Use Today
SEO post of the week: 7 Must-Read SEO Articles For Every Wordpress Blogger
More of the same social media sites and tools next week!
Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up (19-02-2010)
February 19th, 2010
Welcome to another installment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up’.
1. Google Buzz Button Wordpress Plugin is first off the block today, originally designed by Mashable, now available for all you Wordpress bloggers.
2. Twiclur is a highly customisable Twitter widget that can be used to Tweet results from from your TwitterUserName, #Topic or @TwitterUserNam.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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!
Social Media post of the week: Free social media monitoring tools list
SEO post of the week: 6 Best WordPress Plugins For SEO in 2010
More of the same social media sites and tools next week!
Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up (12-02-2010)
February 12th, 2010
Welcome to another installment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up’.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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”.
5. 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.
Social Media post of the week: 25 Must Read Social Media Marketing Tips from big brands
SEO post of the week: Anatomy of a Hands-on SEO Site Audit – Part 1
More of the same social media sites and tools next week!
Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up (28-01-2010)
January 29th, 2010
Welcome to another installment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up’.
1. 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.
2. 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.”
web 2.0 suicide machine promotion from moddr_ on Vimeo.
3. Avatara. Most people have seen the film Avatar, well now you can create your own avatar usable in over 30 online destinations including Facebook.
4. Sprout Pitch. Simply pitch your start-ups, projects and ideas to the world via video - “think elevator pitch”
5. Collecta Widget Builder lets you build customisable widgets for your website very easily. Just grab the code and embed it into your site!
Social Media post of the week: 50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials For Designers and Developers - Smashing Magazine
SEO post of the week: 7 Places to Learn About SEO
More of the same social media sites and tools next week!
Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up (22-01-2010)
January 22nd, 2010
Welcome to another installment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up’
1. 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”.
2. NutShell Mail has an interesting free Email Newsletter application for Facebook that enables your fans to keep track of new activity on your page.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
Social Media post of the week: 100 Ways To Measure Social Media
SEO post of the week: 15 SEO Tools from Google Essential for Publishers and Webmasters
More of the same social media sites and tools next week!
Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up (15-01-2010)
January 15th, 2010
Welcome to another installment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up’
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. TweetsQue, as the name suggests, lets you add Tweets and set time intervals for them to be Tweeted out.
Social Media post of the week: 30 Tips for Using Social Media in Your Business
SEO post of the week: Web 2.0: Buzz-Monitoring and Tracking
More of the same next week!
Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round up (08-01-2010)
January 8th, 2010
I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. Welcome back to another installment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round up’.
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.
Social Media post of the week: Huge List of Over 250 Social Media Websites all nicely categorised with Alexa ranks.
SEO post of the week: What does an SEO Strategy look like? Great visual to add to your SEO efforts.
More of the same next week.
Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round up (18-12-2009)
December 18th, 2009
Welcome to another installment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round up’
1.First off today is the Collective Christmas Twitter-driven app, a chance to find out if you’ve made Santa’s naughty or nice list. Pay him a visit to see what gift you deserve. (Collective is a client of Liberate Media).
2. Gigya Toolbar. By now you must have seen those fancy toolbars on blogs that hover at the bottom of the page. Gigya Toolbar is one such toolbar, that you can use for your own blog or website. To learn more about its features click here.
3. Ustat is a free website value calculator but it also gives you additional information, such as; whether your website is indexed in the correct places, social information and a SEO score. Here is how Google shapes up.
4. Twitterfall lets you easily follow trending topics on Twitter, you can also search for key words, a nice touch is the ability to search for Tweets from a particular location. Twitterfall is also highly customisable.
5. Seachzooka lets you create one advanced search for all the different search engines, meaning you don’t have to search through every individual search engine to find what you are looking for.
Social Media post of the week: Top 50 Twitter Tracking and Analytics Tools
Christmas bonus: B2B Social Media Presentations | Social Media B2B,
Social Media Metrics Superlist: Measurement, ROI, & Key Statistics Resources
SEO post of the week: 15 Sites for Learning and Mastering SEO
Have a Happy Christmas and see you all in the New Year
Andy