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8 MUST HAVE Social Media Tools

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:

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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