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Www.tweetalarm.com/UserHome.aspx. Add / Update Me. Check Your Twitter Stats. Hootsuite vs Tweetdeck – Make Your Twitter Account More Effective. Why you need a Twitter client When we start out with Twitter, generally we all follow a handful of people – colleagues, business contacts or industry leaders – and our Home feed is quite manageable. As time goes on, that number grows and it becomes much less manageable, and very easy to miss tweets from your “VIP” contacts in amongst the general noise. At the same time, you might start to struggle with spacing out your content to provide a consistent Twitter presence, or want to understand more about what content your audience finds valuable.

That’s where Twitter clients come in. These are software programs which put a “skin” over the basic Twitter interface, helping you to manage all that information more effectively, and add extra functionality too. Choose your weapon There are two main players in this field, Hootsuite and Tweetdeck. We frequently get asked by customers which software they should use. Plus, the core functions of both are very similar. Where does the software live? 20 Strategic Social Business Tools for 2011. 2010 marked an important milestone in the young social media industry. Mainly because businesses began to leverage social media to be closer to their customers, have a better and almost real time understanding of their markets and reduce marketing expenditure while growing brand reputation and market share. Businesses who are not leveraging social business technology to monitor, research, connect and collaborate socially with their clients will have a competitive disadvantage over those companies who do. * 60-80% of purchase decisions are based on recommendations * Time in the social web exceeded time spend on TV * 16 Million search results on "has anybody experience with…" indicates that product and brand exploration is no longer influenced by traditional advertising Social business tools will become strategic in 2011.

Tools to monitor the market and gain deeper insights in what people talk about, what needs they have and what they are looking for. Fan Appz on Facebook (3) SocialFish Association Social Media. 30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use. As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, “information overload” is something we all seem to suffer. It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the “stuff” out there and pluck out the best, most share-worthy tidbits of information, especially if your topic is niche.

Let’s face it, Google definitely has its shortcomings when it comes to content curation and the more it tries to cater to all audiences, the less useful it becomes. The demand for timely, relevant content that is specific to our unique interests and perspectives has given rise to a new generation of tools that aim to help individuals and companies curate content from the web and deliver it in a meaningful way. These new tools range from simple, application-specific types such as social media aggregators and discovery engines, to more complex, full-blown publishing solutions for organizations. Comments(65)

10 Content Curation Services your Agency should be Offering. Since the launch of our Curata Channel Partner program in early 2011, we have seen a number of innovative ways that marketing consultants, public relations (PR) agencies, content marketing agencies, inbound marketing consultants, and SEO & SEM agencies have been able to introduce content curation to their clients and add value-added content curation services as well. Here’s a quick run through some of the best ways we have seen agencies add content curation services to add additional revenue streams to their business and provide a more robust content curation offering to their clients. 1. Choosing an Appropriate TopicThe first step in content curation is to determine the topic about which you will be curating.

You can help your client A) find a topic that relates to their industry, B) is neither too broad nor too narrow in scope, C) has sufficient throughput of content being produced, and D) does not have existing overwhelming coverage. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web. Steven Rosenbaum is a curator, author, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Magnify.net, a real-time video curation engine for publishers, brands, and websites. His book Curation Nation is slated to be published this spring by McGrawHill Business. As the volume of content swirling around the web continues to grow, we're finding ourselves drowning in a deluge of data.

Where is the relevant material? Where are the best columns and content offerings? The solution on the horizon is curation. In the past 90 days alone, there has been an explosion of new software offerings that are the early leaders in the curation tools category. 1. Storify co-founder Burt Herman worked as a reporter for the Associated Press during a 12-year career, six of those in news management as a bureau chief and supervising correspondent. At the AP, editors sending messages to reporters asking them to do a story would regularly write, “Can u pls storify?”

Storify is currently invite only. 2. 3. 4. Conclusion. Tweetdoc: Document your twitter event. Syndication Done Right | Repost.Us. Screencasting Tools Comparison | SocialCompare - Comparisons community. Webdoc beta - For rich expression. Collaborative Comparison Engine about everything to make decisions easier. HootSuite - Social Media Dashboard for Teams using Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin.