My favorite Social Tools!!
1. IBM Connections. Yes, I am an IBMer and I love IBM Connections. I love the blogs and the microblogging that I use with my team, and with my clients. It is the new ‘social inbox’ of my life! I don’t think I could live without it!
2. Twitter. I am addicted. I have to tweet. I use this tool because I love succinct statements. I need the wisdom of the crowds.
3. Foursquare. Checking in whereever I am — and posting it in multiple places. I like the badges as a gamification addition.
4. Klout.com. I am not sure it is the perfect way to measure influence, but I like to see the influencers in a variety of areas. It helps me to see and understand more and more about my virtual friends.
5. Facebook. I love the new frictionless social gestures and the way Facebook allows us to keep in touch wtih our friends and families.
6. Tweetdeck. I know I already listed Twitter but Tweetdeck enables me to monitor key words and to see the best conversations. Without this tool, I wouldn’t be as effective on Twitter.
7. Cognos Consumer Insight. This tool enables me to track sentiment, affinity, and has predictive capability. All great social media-ist should listen and study at all times!
8. WordPress blogs. WordPress has made blogging so simple and easy and hsa the tracking I need to see how my readers like what I am writing.
9. YouTube. I love video and the power that it brings. Video envokes trust and personalization that is not possible in other medias.
10. Delicious. I love the easy bookmarketing and tagging, which makes for quick searching later.
11. LinkedIn. LinkedIn is for my business contacts and groups. It is a great way to get linkedin to great groups – like those for authors or social media enthusiasts.
12. Hash Tracking. A great tool to track campaigns on twitter. It tracks the level of engagement of the conversations around a topic.
What are your favorite tools?!
I like when we connect these social outlets and easily reach so many readers.
Thanks for teaching me Sandy!!!
Pinterest is very interesting. In 2012 it may become more mainstream. What do you think?
Good list! I have a lot of crossover with you. Twitter is my favorite major social media channel, and I manage my various accounts with Tweetdeck (@socialcap my main work related one). I switched to Diigo when it came out Yahoo wasn’t going to continue w the Delicious service, and have liked it.
I’m a regular Twitter user and I use Buffer (bufferapp.com), SocialOomph, and SocialBro (great for mining Twitter data) to support my Twitter habit. Also, WordPress blogs supported by RSS feeds are great. I just recently started using Delicious for my social bookmarking.
Did you change your Foursquare ID? The last one I see for you is Galeries Lafayette HQ – Paris, Ile-de-France – 3 weeks ago. Trying to make sure my list is up-to-date for Lotusphere 2012…
Nice top 10!
On my personal list I have include SlideShare. I love to scroll through presentations on certain topics. Lots of inspiration.
Instagram
Great list. Thanks for sharing. Some other additions to check out.. Trendrr, Instagram for photo sharing and Tour for video’s. Easy to post video to fb and twitter.
I will for sure! I love new tools!
Hmm. Klout is a pretty offensive service if you ask me – http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/evil-social-networks.html and http://loudmouthman.com/2011/08/16/lacking-in-klout/ and http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/26/sing-now-the-praises-of-klout/ – I’ve opted out of it (although it appears they haven’t actually deleted my information – awful data policies). I really would rather genuinely engage and discover whether an individual is of value than just measure some simplistic number before deciding whether I have time for them. I’m surprised and saddened that companies like Microsoft and other large corporates openly admit to using it.
Tweetdeck is no longer of much value to me. The new version has stripped it of most of the useful function. Delicious is barely useful anymore.
Services I’m liking at the moment include Pinterest (although it is early days and seems flaky, the visual aspect is appealing and powerful); Buffer http://bufferapp.com (which I’m now paying for, as it really is proving to be great for increasing engagement around my content); Instagram for quickly posting images (although I’m sad it is still single platform limited to iOS); IFTTT (now the useful “glue” between social apps); and Google Analytics, which I’ve added to just about every WordPress and other site I’ve been able to – the mobile access and ways in which data can be sliced, diced and tracked is amazing – just a shame it can’t be used with WordPress.com. The WordPress Jetpack plugin is fabulous, too.