10 Social Media Tools – Best Kept Secrets

My friend Scott Abel (The Content Wrangler) gave an outstanding presentation at Web Content 2009 on social media tools – best kept secrets.  The full presentation is below, but here's the quick take on the 10 Scott shared:

1. Google Docs Forms Designer. Create custom forms for surveys and downloads. Customize in less than 10 minutes.
2. Delicious Promotions. Scott reviewed the power of promoting events and offers through Delicious.
3. Tynt. Scott's favorite tool. It tracks what users copy from your website (very cool tool).
4. Ping.fm. Write once, publish many. Ping allows you to publish to as many as 60 social networks in less than 10 seconds (NOTE: be careful.  Understand how your message is being sent and where it is going so you are not Spamming anyone.)
5. GoView. Screencasts that allow you to show instead of tell.  According to Scott, a step down from Jing but easier to use.
6. bit.ly. Shorten your URLs for distribution and be able to track them as well (who opens it where).
7. Scribd. YouTube for PDFs.
8. Kwout. Screen captures with working links to original pages.
9. Knowem. Checks brand name availability across 120 social media websites.
10. slideshare. Increase the value of slide decks far beyond the conference presentation.

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