Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

The “Must-Have” Tool Kit of Social Media Citizen

June 25th, 2009

Before starting the new cycle of posts discussing the startups’ which may affect the lives of Social Media Citizens, I decided to share this “Must-have” list of social media tools which have already found their place in our daily routines.

Blogging tools – Desktop publishers for quicker and easier Blogging

Word2007.com/blogging

Windows Live Writer

Zoundry Raven

Blog It! – a Facebook application

Scribefire – Firefox add-on

Promo tools Help to promote your content on social webs and submit your stories to multiple bookmarking sites for consumers’ evaluation

Onlywire.com

Pressitt.com

But don’t forget to use the old ones – Digg.com, Technorati.com, Del.icio.us , Buzz.yahoo.com , Propeller.com , Reddit.com , Stumbleupon.com

Tracking tools – Help to keep the track of conversations about your brand or you (personal beand) on Social Media Sites

http://www.google.com/alerts

http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/

http://www.jodange.com/

http://www.cocomment.com/tools/extension

Social desktop aggregatorHelp to mange your social networks in one single place

http://www.sobees.com/

http://tweetdeck.com

http://seesmic.com/

Synchronized status updating tools – Help to change your status at one or more social networking websites at once

Ping.fm – To most of the Social Networking sites.

TweetSync – Twitter – to – Facebook.

Twitterfeed.com – Facebook – to – Twitter – Explanation how to setup it (Post-your-facebook-status-to-twitter)

Video distribution toolsHelp publishers to upload and deliver online videos to multiple video-sharing sites

http://www.tubemogul.com/
http://heyspread.com/
http://www.vidmetrix.com/

Content Aggregators – Help to mange your RSS feeds and saves a lot of time dedicated for reading the news or researching

http://www.netvibes.com – Personal favorite!

http://www.pageflakes.com

http://www.google.com/reader/

Twitter, Twitter, Twitter

March 19th, 2009

This year is definitely a year of Twitter. The blogosphere has been obsessed by this powerful micro–blogging platform for the last couple of months and it seems there is no end for the discussions. Almost every major media blog or portal has expressed its views about the challenges and opportunities created by Twitter. The opinions differ, but it’s quite clear that Twitter is here to stay and there is not much left to do but to embrace its powers and use it for your own goals. To be honest I’m not the biggest fan of Twitter, because sometimes I find it difficult to follow the conversations on it, nevertheless, I can not ignore the fact that the amazing growth of Twitter makes it a brilliant place to catch new ideas and trends floating around in the ocean of tweets. Anyways, as I mentioned earlier, I’ve been following the conversations about the twitter for a while now and have gathered some really interesting ideas and useful lists of best tools and apps on the twitter so just though I’m going to share them with you:

Tools and Apps on Twitter:

99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications

Twitter Toolbox: 60+ Twitter Tools

Twitter Apps wiki

Twitter Tools

47 Top Twitter sites, services, software and tips

7 Best Twitter blogs and apps

The top 20 Twitter applications

About Twitter:

What’s Twitter good for, anyway?

Twitter’s Analytical Business Plan

Taking risks with Twitter

Twitter-is-peaking

BTW if you have some more interesting links to add pls leave them as the comment and I will modify the post accordingly. Cheers!

Bloggers' motivations and behaviors

December 1st, 2008

While collecting some data for my research i approached this interesting article by Chun-Yao Huang (Bloggers’ motivations and behaviors: a model). His research identifies the main blogging motivations and suggests particular moves to enhance these motivations in the favor of  your brand. Nothing entirely new , but quite good  and systematized information for those who interested in engaging their consumers through blogs.

brand-comms

It would be really interesting to find out your opinion though, how micro-blogging fits in this motivations’ table and are they any different from the list above.