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:
- Google Docs Forms Designer. Create custom forms for surveys and downloads. Customize in less than 10 minutes.
- Delicious Promotions. Scott reviewed the power of promoting events and offers through Delicious.
- Tynt. Scott's favorite tool. It tracks what users copy from your website (very cool tool).
- 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.)
- GoView. Screencasts that allow you to show instead of tell. According to Scott, a step down from Jing but easier to use.
- bit.ly. Shorten your URLs for distribution and be able to track them as well (who opens it where).
- Scribd. YouTube for PDFs.
- Kwout. Screen captures with working links to original pages.
- Knowem. Checks brand name availability across 120 social media websites.
- slideshare. Increase the value of slide decks far beyond the conference presentation.
The ultimate all-in-one tool for social media is http://social-smart.com
Admittedly it is not freely available, but if you are a social media manager, or a company looking to hire a social media manager, then this is the sort of tool you want to be looking at.
Posted by: Jasper Blake | June 20, 2009 at 03:06 PM
Great suggestions! Thanks :-)
Posted by: Kim R | June 30, 2009 at 11:36 AM
I have been using ping.fm...and i have to admit...its great !
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