Social Media Resources

Social Networks Facebook You know it. You love it. Facebook for Business Facebook Marketing Add a Like Button to a web page Add a Like Box to a web page Twitter Microblogging platform - Tweets are no more than 140 characters. Twitter 101 - Getting Started Twitter Guide Book (by Mashable) Embed a Tweet in a web page Add a Twitter button to a web page Add a Twitter Widget to a web page Linkedin A social network for professionals. New User Starter Guide LinkedIn for Students Linkedin Maps - Map your Linkedin social graph Visualize your LinkedIn Resume Google Plus Google's social network. Killer app = Hangouts. Instagram Photo sharing social network owned by Facebook. Pinterest A social network for collecting and sharing visuals How to Start Pinning Pinterest Analytics Other Social Networks YouTube - Video-driven social network. Reddit - Highly influential collaboratively filtered web content. Quora - Question-driven social network. Flickr - Photo-driven social network. about.me - Social media hub that creates a single landing page connecting all your profiles in one place. Blogging Software Blogger One of the first major blogging platforms.  Now owned by Google.  Considered a bit "old school" by some. Word Press Very popular open source blogging platform - highly customizable.  Some companies use Word Press as the content management system for their main website. Social Media Management HootSuite The world’s most widely used social relationship platform Buffer Helps manage your key social media accounts in one place with scheduling & analytics. Digital Anaytics Google Analytics The gold standard of free web analytics. Use to gather data on your website or blog traffic, visitors, and content. Kissmetrics A commercial analytics platform that integrates customer data with your Google Analytics Social Media Influence Klout Klout measures influence online. The Klout Score measures influence based on your ability to drive action. Every time you create content or engage you influence others. Kred A Klout lookalike. Peer Index The PeerIndex Score reflects the impact of your online activities, and the extent to which you have built up social and reputational capital on the web. Empire Avenue Empire Avenue is the Social Stock Market, where you can Grow your Social Capital online. Social Media Monitoring Google Alerts Set up a stream of content from Google (News, Blog posts, videos, etc) based on relevant keywords on a daily/weekly basis. Social Mention Excellent real-time social media search. Vizify Excellent personal infographics and social data visualization tool. Twitter Metrics Twitter Analytics Great Reach and Engagement stats from Twitter. Twitonomy Excellent tool to provide robust Twitter analytics on any public Twitter profile. Social Bro Twitter analytics platform.  Also available as a Chrome browser app. FollowerWonk Analyze your Twitter followers and those you follow. Tweet Stats Graph your Twitter Stats (a little slow) Tweet Grader Twitter Grader is a free tool that allows you to check the power of your twitter profile compared to millions of other users that have been graded. Twitalyzer Monitors Twitter stats plus Klout and PeerIndex scores - also gives metrics dashboard. Tweet-Powered Apps TrendsMap Shows trending words and hashtags by geographic location. GlobalTweets Shows tweets by geographic location Tweet Organization Storify Platform to create a "story" based on social media exchanges (Twitter back-n-forths, etc). Twylah Organizes and publishes your tweets into a user-friendly magazine format. paper.li Organizes and publishes the tweets of those you are following into a user-friendly readable magazine format. Tagboard Keeps track of hashtags across Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus, and Facebook.