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Quick toolbox for new social media tools, apps, tips, technology of interest to bloggers, content producers, storytellers, marketing & PR pros. Emphasis on practical not techhy, usable not confusable! ;-)
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Top 52 Social Media Platforms Every Marketer Should Know

Top 52 Social Media Platforms Every Marketer Should Know | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it

Whether you’re using social media to build awareness for your business, to drive leads to your sales force or anything else in between, it’s important to be familiar with all of the social media platforms at your disposal.

With that in mind, below is a list of the top 52 social media platforms. They’re broken into 3 categories — social media platforms that help you network (like LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.); social media platforms that help you promote (like YouTube, blogs, etc.); and social media platforms that help you share (like Buffer, Hootsuite, etc.).

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Comprehensive, all-in-one list of social media platforms.

Jeff Domansky's curator insight, February 12, 2016 11:20 PM

Comprehensive, all-in-one list of social media platforms.

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The 12 Best Free WordPress Pinterest Plugins on the Market

The 12 Best Free WordPress Pinterest Plugins on the Market | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it
These plugins do everything you need to integrate your WordPress with Pinterest.

Via Kimberly Castleberry, Alison D. Gilbert
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Useful Pinterest tools for your WordPress blog, site.

Kimberly Castleberry's curator insight, January 25, 2014 5:18 PM

Pinterest is an incredibly powerful site - especially for those in visual markets. There's a lot of plugins for WordPress that connect to Pinterest - but which one is right for you? This is a useful collection that will help you discover what your options are!

Rim Riahi's curator insight, February 9, 2014 11:09 PM

These plugins do everything you need to integrate your WordPress with Pinterest.

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AdamVincenzini.com: 10 Google products you (probably) never knew existed

AdamVincenzini.com: 10 Google products you (probably) never knew existed | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it

I don't know about you, but it feels like Google launches a new product every time I turn my laptop on.

And these tend to fit into two distinct categories:

1. Incredibly useful

2. Incredibly bizarre

Fortunately, most of these products are free so we're really not in a position to complain!

After some lengthy research, I was surprised by how many tools Google has either developed or acquired over the years.

So much so, that I thought it was a good idea to compile a list of the secrets of the Google product empire.

Here they are...in no particular order......

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15 Essential Twitter Chats for Social Media Marketers

15 Essential Twitter Chats for Social Media Marketers | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it
If you want a few tips on how to best create a great chat on Twitter, here are 15 hashtags that fit the bill.
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12 incredibly useful digital tools for PR | Articles

12 incredibly useful digital tools for PR | Articles | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it

What are the key social media tools that PR professionals need to go from bumbling amateur to results-driven superstar?

 

Here are 12 of them.

 

And all but one of them are free...

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Nimble Streamlines Your Company's Communication Over Social Media

Nimble Streamlines Your Company's Communication Over Social Media | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it
Nimble allows you to import your contacts from email and social media and connect contact information for individual people in your network...

 

Where day-to-day communications used to take place in the form of handwritten notes and meetings scribbled in a DayPlanner, today businesses communicate with clients everywhere from email to tweets and Facebook wall posts. One service, Nimble, is attempting to streamline all of those communication channels into one, and help businesses and individuals create better connections with the people they’re trying to reach....

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Best social media tools for journalists « Teaching Online Journalism

Best social media tools for journalists « Teaching Online Journalism | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it

What are today’s most popular social media tools? I proposed a short list on the Social Journalism Educators group on Facebook: Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Storify, Instagram, YouTube, WordPress.

 

You’ll note (if you roll over and read the tooltip) that none of the links above go to the home page for that tool — instead, I have linked to useful articles that can help us understand how journalists use (or can use) each one of these particular tools.

 

Then others in the Facebook group recommended the following sites and tools...

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41 little-known social media features

41 little-known social media features | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it
When I go to Disneyland, I race to the famous rides first: Splash Mountain, Matterhorn Bobsleds, and Indiana Jones. They're the biggest and best. But there are many attractions I miss in my sprint for the headliners.

Social networks are like the rides at Disneyland. There are so many social media sites and features that some are bound to slip through the cracks.

Which Facebook, Twitter and the other major social network features have slipped under our noses? Here are 41 tricks and tools for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest and Instagram.
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A must-read for these cool tips.

Cate Ferguson's curator insight, September 20, 2014 4:04 PM

Every little tip you can gather will be useful... to someone.  In the fast pace of change on some social networks it's useful to revisit some of the little details that can help make things easier, faster, more fun. 

Mike Allen's curator insight, October 25, 2014 5:47 PM

Well worth a look

AndySernovitz's curator insight, July 31, 2015 3:56 AM

A must-read for these cool tips.

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Five Top Social Media Management Dashboards For 2014 Reviewed

Five Top Social Media Management Dashboards For 2014 Reviewed | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it

Whether you’re an Internet Marketer or the owner of a business with an online presence, you probably know how tedious and time-consuming it is to manage all of your social media accounts as well as networks.


That’s where social media management dashboards come in. With such a dashboard, one can manage all of their social media accounts simultaneously. Here are reviews of the five top social media management dashboards for 2014....

Jeff Domansky's curator insight, January 5, 2014 10:32 AM

5 great social media tools reviewed. Pick one to help you work more efficiently in 2014.

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10 Free Tools to Help You Organize the Internet | Twitter Tips from Buffer

10 Free Tools to Help You Organize the Internet | Twitter Tips from Buffer | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it

The internet is a big place. For a long time, I found the task of organizing and remembering all the articles, images, videos, posts, tweets, and sites to be formidable. The mass of information only continues to grow, but I have latched on to 10 free tools that help me organize my online journey. 5 are common, and 5 are just getting big on the scene. I hope you can find some that help you as well....

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38+ Cool Social Media and Web Tools and Reviews | Webbiquity | B2B Marketing Blog

38+ Cool Social Media and Web Tools and Reviews | Webbiquity | B2B Marketing Blog | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it
Managing social media, making public WiFi secure, backing up Gmail - there's probably an app for that, or a cool web tool, and you'll probably find it here.

 

...There’s an app for that—or cool web tool. Find tools to do all of the above and much more in this collection of helpful business, online and social media tools, apps and reviews....

 

[Just a terrific resource from the awesome Tom Pick - JD]

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9 Hot Social Networks to Watch

9 Hot Social Networks to Watch | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it
We've gathered a list of nine social services to keep an eye on as the location and taste graph spaces heat up.

 

Few social services have enjoyed as much success as sites like Foursquare and Pinterest. However, companies are achieving recognition by applying similar social principles to their own niche networks.

 

We’ve gathered a list of nine social services to keep an eye on. Like Foursquare, many incorporate location-based functionality, with the goal to connect people beyond the digital space — in real life. Other sites remind us of Pinterest, bringing users together around taste graphs and like-minded consumer habits.

 

Whatever your preference, take a look at these nine buzzworthy social platforms. Do they represent the future of social?...

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12 (of the) Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Techniques of 2011 | Business 2 Community

12 (of the) Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Techniques of 2011 | Business 2 Community | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it
What is the distinction between “traditional” public relations (PR) and online / interactive / social PR?

 

...Regardless, while the “art” of PR retains some constants, the “science” has clearly evolved. What are the best practices for pitching journalists in this new environment? What are the (current) best practices for pitching bloggers? How can PR pros optimize their use of social media tools? How can you make a press release more friendly to blogs, Twitter and search engines?

 

Find the answers to these questions and more here in a dozen of the best social PR guides of the past year....

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Tips and Trends for Tech PR - PRNewser

Tips and Trends for Tech PR - PRNewser | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it

“Tech is really mainstream,” said TJ Snyder, partner at The OutCast Agency, during a conversation with us this week. “Tech is now part of every story.”

 

From HP to Facebook to Apple, the doings at tech and digital companies is filling up the news cycle. We spoke with Snyder to get a sense of how this is impacting the tech PR sector. On top of his list of tips and trends is finding a way to stand out now that the news is overflowing with tech items.

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