Posts Tagged ‘social media tools’
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!