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8 MUST HAVE Social Media Tools

By Michael Stelzner

I recently attended a social media marketing conference in San Diego.  It included some very well-known social media gurus, such as Mari Smith and Denise Wakeman.

I picked up some really great ideas.  I also learned of eight new online tools that will help your social media marketing efforts.   Here they are:

These are in no particular order:

TwitterBar:  This browser add-on that integrates with FireFox and allows you to effortlessly Tweet about any page that you are on, making it very easy to share new resources as you find them.

UStream.tv:  This is like YouTube, but LIVE.  With just a webcam and the Internet you can stream anything live.  During the event, one of the presenters was streaming his presentation live to all of his followers (Very cool!).

Ping.fm:  This amazing site allows you to post text, images and video one time and it will take that content and post it on ALL of your social media sites.  Forget maintaining FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace and the dozen other accounts you have—this site does it all.

BudUrl: This really cool tool will shorten any weblink (useful for Twitter) AND provide detailed tracking that reveals which websites picked up your link, allowing you to determine where your new traffic is coming from for any webpage (yours or someone elses).

TweetDeck: Following a ton of people on Twitter?  Want to filter the real important people from your stream of tweets?  TweetDeck is your solution.

FriendFeed: Let’s say there’s a few people you like to track, but don’t like to bounce around to all their social media sites to keep up to date.  FriendFeed centralizes everything, across a wide range of social media sites, so you can quickly see what’s going on.  (NOTE: Would love more info from folks using this. Please comment).

AwayFind: Overwhelmed with Email? Try AwayFind. This service will allow urgent messages to get through to you, while allowing you to get away and get productive.

12seconds.tv: What if you could effortlessly create a video, but only had 12 seconds? Kinda like YouTube meets Twitter. Check below to see how I created one using my laptop’s camera.


Michael Stelzner using 12seconds.tv. on 12seconds.tv

There’s a ton of useful services here. If you use any of the them, tell my why you like them. ALSO, if you want to follow me on Twitter, click here.

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  • Those are new to me thanks for the new social media tools
  • I use most of these, they are quite handy!
  • I think highly of the mentioned list of resources. The tools are as good as they could be.

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  • BudURL is one of my favorite url shortening services because of its tracking ability. Great list of resources. I'll be giving awayfind a try.

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  • I second Gary's comments about BudUrl. This looks to be much more useful than TinyURL. I just signed up.

    Regarding FriendFeed, I've gotten into it primarily via Ed Dale's 30-Day Challenge website http://budurl.com/fvm9 -- see what a quick learner I am, with my first budurl already!
  • Great list of tools. The 12seconds.tv looks like a quick and easy way to add video content to any site. A great potential use for tips and tricks that some sites offer, plus it adds a personal touch to the site.

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  • That BudUrl link looks quite interesting. I've been using TinyUrl which is similar, but the site you highlighted has tracking which is something that could prove really useful.

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  • Glad to be here--and what's the point of all this if not to give a little value :-). And while I'm here I should also thank Jacques for the kind words. Feel free to reach out if I can ever help!
  • Hey Jared;

    Thanks for stopping by AND adding some more cool resources to my list!

    Mike
  • Thanks, Michael, for including AwayFind in your list! These (others) are some pretty awesome tools you mention here, most of which I use. Some other fun ones to add to your list:

    * Nutshellmail.com sends you a summary (daily, weekly, whatever you'd like) of all your LinkedIn, Facebook, and various Gmail accounts' activities...so you don't have to login as often to those sites...and can then turn off most email notifications from those sites
    * Tubemogul.com allows you to upload videos to nearly all the video sites at once--vastly increasing the distribution of your work

    Cheers!
  • Awayfind is definitely a must-have! One can use it as a sledgehammer type spam filter, to really only get the mail one wants.
  • @Butch - Is BACKTYPE that site that puts the type upside down on the page? If it is, I think it's a novelty.

    @Dan - Not familiar with Qik. Can you explain what it is here?

    @J.D. - Still trying to wrap my arms around FriendFeed. Do you know how it works? Please explain what MyBlogLog is... Thanks :)
  • It does seem like FriendFeed is becoming more pervasive.

    What are your thoughts on MyBlogLog? I noticed Yaro and John Chow (and many people use it), yet it doesn't seem as pervasive as say Stumble.

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  • Robert "Butch" Greenawalt
    Agreed, all very good examples Michael are you familiar with this one as I discovered it the other day by accident! BACKTYPE

    Cheers,
  • hey, Michael, nice post - I like the look of awayfind.

    one tool you might want to add along the lines of ustream.tv is Qik. it's simialr to ustream, but lets you stream video direct from your cell phone!

    daniel
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