Tools For Engaging In Social Media

We all know Social Media Marketing can be pretty time consuming. There are numerous social media communities, each requiring you to sign up, make a profile, and participate, in order to have any success with them. So it is only natural that you would like to have some helpful tools to short cut the process […]

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We all know Social Media Marketing can be pretty time
consuming. There are numerous social media communities, each requiring you to sign
up, make a profile, and participate, in order to have any success with them. So
it is only natural that you would like to have some helpful tools to short cut
the process wherever possible.

Below we will go through each of the major social
communities that I use and outline some of the best tools to help
you manage and maintain your accounts.

  1. Digg
    A community driven social news site
    where users submit articles and the community votes them up or down. Articles
    are promoted to the main page at https://digg.com
    when they reach a certain threshold.

    Digg
    Alerter
    is an absolute must have for any user interested in keeping track
    of their submissions.

    Digg Alerter

    “Digg Alerter is a program that
    sits in your system tray and alerts you whenever your stories are dugg or
    promoted to the front page. Simply specify your Digg username and the program
    will automatically keep you updated.”

    Bury Recorder
    Another
    great tool that allows you to track buries on any given submission. This tool
    will display the type of bury, number of diggs at time of bury, and the time
    and date a bury was received.

    Bury Recorder

    Bury Recorder utilizes the Digg Spy API tool, which is reported to only
    show a small amount of the overall Digg activity and thus could be inaccurate. It
    is still a great tool and very helpful.  

    For additional Digg tools, check out this post by
    DoshDosh – 12 Must-Have
    Tools for Digg Users
    .

  2. Reddit
    A community driven social news
    site where users submit articles and the community votes them up or down.
    Unlike other social sites, Reddit doesn’t have a system that promotes stories
    to a front page. Reddit sorts all their submissions in numerical order, based
    on their current voting based score. The main page on https://reddit.com shows the top 25 ranked stories.

    Reddit
    River
    is a mobile version of reddit.com. It is 3 times as light (in size)
    and automatically discovers mobile versions of stories posted on Reddit. It
    also supports viewing the various SubReddits.

    Reddit River

    For a really good and complete article on how to
    succeed on Reddit, check out 10e20’s
    post on Reddit
    .

  3. StumbleUpon
    A browser guided
    social community where users can vote web content up or down from their
    installed tool bar. Each time you press the “Stumble!” button, you are shown a
    new page, based on the categories you have subscribed to in your options.

    StumbleUpon
    Alerter
    is another great tool from Adamant Solutions and provides a
    great view at your StumbleUpon account’s activity.

    StumbleUpon Alerter

    You can quickly see who is voting
    on your discoveries, and how many votes and comments each discovery has
    received. You can also analyze your friends’ activity and see which of your
    discovered domains performs better.

    Make sure to check out DoshDosh’s really
    comprehensive article on StumbleUpon.

  4. Propeller
    Very similar to Digg in
    that it is a community driven social news site where users submit articles and
    the community votes them up or down. Articles are promoted to the main page at https://propeller.com when they reach a certain
    threshold.

    PropellerTray
    is a tool that allows you to see the vote and comment count on each of the
    content pieces you submitted to Propeller.com.

    Propeller Traysmall

  5. Twitter
    Service for people
    to quickly communicate and stay connected with other users. You can follow
    specific people and see their Twitter messages.

    Twhirl
    is a great desktop tool for Twitter users. It allows you to do almost
    everything you can on Twitter but in a small window that resembles an IM chat
    window. In addition, the tool allows you to receive up to 3 recent Twitter
    messages in a quick view window similar to that of a new email in Outlook.

    Twirl

    TwitterAdder
    allows you to add up to 20 random friends at a time to your Twitter account.

    Twitter Adder

    TwitterFeed
    allows you to publish an RSS feed into your Twitter account.

    Twitter Feed

    You can find some other interesting Twitter
    tools in Barbara Boser’s post on Twitter
    tools
    .

  6. Facebook

    The StumbleUpon Application allows
    you to share any pages you have discovered or voted upon on your Facebook
    profile.

    Facebook StumbleUpon Application

    Digg has also released a Facebook
    application
    to display your Digg activity on your profile.

    Facebook Digg Application

  7. The
    Social Media tool
    for Firefox

    A
    must have additional to your social media tool arsenal. It
    allows you to single click buttons, at the bottom of your browser, for Digg,
    Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Delicious, to easily submit whatever page you are
    currently on.

    You can also switch the tool over
    to “automatic” and it will display the vote counts for the various social
    communities next to links on any website you are browsing.

    Reddit

The above tools have made my social media experience much
easier and more productive. There are many great tools out that can really help
improve your social media experience, so get out there, tool up, and Be Social!


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About the author

Brent Csutoras
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Brent Csutoras is a social media strategist and entrepreneur, who specializes in social media marketing, content marketing, and viral content creation - http://www.kairaymedia.com

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