Cool Tools

Social Media / Web 2.0

Facebook

New! Want to lure more fans? Just follow these easy to follow steps.

New!  Read how to enhance your Facebook page All the tips and tricks you need to know.

See What's Trending on Facebook now, and subscribe to updates on your preferred topic or brand name.

How To Get People To "Like" Your Facebook Page 10 ways to grow your following.Very handy! From @smexaminer

10 Cool Facebook Status Tips & Tricks  Some pretty niffty tricks you can pull using your humble Facebook status.

Twitter

New! Digital Engagement - tools to measure your Twitter influence Have a read.

New! Your very own Twitter-Journal Get a summary of your tweets and ideas put into hard copy!

New! What The Trend Find out the hottest topics trending around the world in real time!

New! Style your own hash tagging or find tweets in relation to the same subject
10 great Twitter widgets from 'retweet this coding' to streaming your tweets on your blog or website.

Back up all your followers, tweets & other info -  just incase!

15 Twitter Lists for C-Suite Execs to Follow For the latest business, management and leadership tweets, here are Twitter Lists for CEOs to follow.

twitition.com Helps you create, sign and share petitions with people on twitter.

Basic Tools for  Twitter Beginner @Lauren says "they're reliable and don't take too long to load."

Best Tools for Managing corporate Twitter Account(s) from @MHJohnston who manages a corporate Twitter presence.

Top 100 Most Popular Twitter Apps Voted on and reviewed daily.

The Community Manager / Digital Engager Tool Kit Perfect collection of tools for Community Managers/Digital Engagers everywhere!

twilk.com Takes your Twitter followers' profile photos and puts them on your Twitter background.

Twitter Counter Monitors your Twitter stats with email alerts and automatically follows your fans saving you time.

Twitter Klout Measure your klout and the true reach of your Tweets. Statistical classification benchmarks in a matrix the category you best fit into.Are you a dabbler, chatterbox, celeb, explorer, taste maker, activist... ?

friendorfollow.com Spot the gap in your Twitter strategy. Find out who's following you, fans you should follow + your Twitter buddies.

tweetreach.com A piegraph snapshot within the last 7 days of how far your tweet went, your exposure and who your most influencial follower is ...

General

39 of the Best Social Media Tools researched by Jay Baer (social media consultant to 25 of the Fortune 1000 companies in the US).

10 Step Web 2.0 ROI courtesy of Engage ORM and Jim McNamara
  1. "Research should be about understanding and insight, rather than data"
  2. "Strategy without research is just lucky guessing"
  3. "Common evaluation outcomes: attitude formation, behaviour change and awareness shift"
Analytics

New! 20 free social media monitoring tools right here.

omgili.com
Best Forum search engine out there.Lets you find communities, message boards, discussion threads about any topic.

backtype.com
Social analytics platform that helps companies understand their social impact.

monitter.com
Real time twitter monitor, it lets you "monitter" the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying.

socialmention.com
Identifies who is talking about you in social media (positive/negative), top keywords/users.
Check out the 'measurement matrix' in the lefthand corner.
Offers alerts that you can subscribe to (on right hand side of page) and receive an email every time you are mentioned in blogs, tweets, forums, blogs etc...

howsociable.com
Offers a to 'brand visibility metrix' - just put your name in the search box and it does the rest. Gives a brand visibility score so you can identify the most active platforms on the social web that your brand is popping up in.

whostalkin.com
Monitors 'real time' conversations and offers a plug-in for your browser (Explorer or Firefox if you receive news feeds) so you can see it daily (great when a crisis hits or topical issue arises in your industry)

keotag.com
Searches across the vast social media spectrum from blog directory, Technorati to Twitter to Google and more...

Mention Map
A handy tool for following influencers of your brand on Twitter.
It's like a mind map of all the conversations taking place. You can hover your mouse over each 'hub' and find out more information about top hashtag conversations or who your tweeters are and if they're happy campers...or not!?

Free Tools

New addthis.com Free sharing button that spreads content across the web by making it easy for visitors to bookmark and share content to their favorite social destinations. Even offers tracking via Google Analytics.

Website Analytics

websitegrader.com How well is your website doing? Is it getting traffic? Does it have SEO problems? How popular is it in social media? An SEO tool from HubSpot that provides an Internet Marketing Report for your website.

Hubspot.com Gives tips on how to improve your website site ranking so search engines notice it. Scores your site's meta tagging and keywords. Identifies who is linking to your site (and who isn't and should be!).
Blogging

New! How to write a great blog in just 15 minutes Just follow these five easy steps

New Best Blogging Tools

Sites that 'Ping' Your RSS Feed
(and help get you noticed on search engines!)
http://www.pingoat.com/
http://www.ipings.com/
http://pingomatic.com/?oldpinger
More here: : http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.com/2007/06/submit-rss-feeds-and-pings.html

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