Tweet Lanyrd: Lanyrd is a social conference directory that allows you to track conferences, speaker information and gather reports on past conference coverage by sorting through presentation slides, videos and podcasts according to conference category. By signing in with your Twitter account, Lanyrd provides you with the most up-to-date information on everything conference related. In [...]
Tweet Social Strategy 1: Social Strategy 1 is an online media monitoring intelligence service that analyzes blogs and other forms of social media outlets to help bring insight to those who execute social media in various disciplines. Why is Social Strategy 1 important? Now, more than ever, more and more companies are turning to social [...]
Tweet LiveGO: LiveGO is a web dashboard that incorporates email, instant messaging and social media in one easy-to-use platform. After connecting LiveGO to your Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail/Yahoo!/AOL email accounts, users can get a combined view of all messages and updates in the dashboard screen, or they can choose each account individually to obtain the [...]
Tweet ifttt: This simple acronym is a very unique and useful tool for the social media user trying to synergize. ifttt stands for “if this then that,” and this free tool allows users to create certain scenarios within their online presence. For example, “If a friend tags me in a photo on Facebook, add that [...]
Tweet Chaptur: Chaptur is a simple, easy-to-use real-time search engine for staying up on the latest breaking news or simply following a news outlet. From the front page, all a user needs to do is type in his/her search term, and instantly real-time results appear that have been instantly indexed from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, RSS [...]
Tweet 2012 is here! And that can only mean one thing—time for resolutions. Aside from resolving to become better-looking, healthier, richer and more successful over the next 12 months—while also knocking off a few bucket-list items—January is also a good time to focus on goals for your professional growth. 1. Become more familiar with the [...]
Tweet SOPA: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a bill that was introduced late last year in the House of Representatives that is aimed at protecting intellectual property on the Internet. Supporters of the bill cite its ability to improve the enforcement of copyright laws as well as protect Internet users against scams aimed [...]
Tweet Social Television: Social TV, simply put, is the combination of watching television while simultaneously engaging in conversations via social media. Tweeting or Facebooking about the shows we are watching was a trend on the rise during 2011 and is expected to continue to thrive as we move into 2012. Twitter has already begun to [...]
Tweet Flipboard: Flipboard is a social news app that integrates all of your social networks with the news that you want to follow. Released last year for the iPad and just last week for the iPhone, Flipboard provides a simple yet unique way to keep up with your social life and your news while seamlessly [...]
Tweet Social Commerce: Predicted to be one of the hottest trends in social media for 2012, social commerce can be defined as the use of social media to assist in the online purchasing of products or services. Many companies have integrated a store app into their Facebook fan pages, allowing users to purchase products without [...]