+75 Very Useful Tools For Social Media & Content Creation

Here's a monster list of 101 social media marketing resources (the 2012 edition) to help expand your knowledge of this ever-changing ecosystem. These resources are useful for newbies and social media mavens alike, looking to learn about the field as well as to hone their business skills.

If you run a small business, one thing that you probably don't have a lot of is time. You don't want to spend a huge amount of time learning how to do what you want or find the best tools to achieve your goals.

Guest blog post by Lilach Bullock | With 48.7 million users, Pinterest is one of the top online social networks. Yet many business owners are still not sure about Pinterest; they are afraid to venture into more than one or two social networks, preferring instead to stick to the social media king and queen: Facebook and Twitter.

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There's no denying it, I'm a Twitter fanatic and have been since Twitter launched. One of the reasons that Twitter became so popular was due to the number of 3rd party apps that were created to help manage your Twitter account. Here are 20+ tools that will turn you into a Twitter power user.

What's web usability and as a marketer, why should you care? Content marketing and social media ROI may be the foundation of your marketing practice, but if your site has usability errors, no one will ever get to find out how great you are.

Content marketing is going to be bigger than ever this year. Ninety-two percent of marketers are already using content marketing. More than half of B2B and B2C marketers are increasing their content budgets in 2014. While the fundamentals of good content will never change, the tools and tactics — even the way people consume content — continue to evolve, and documenting your content strategy impacts your overall success. Check out this comprehensive guide to tools for creating and curating, promoting and distributing content — customer information included.

Are you looking to create content that engages? Does your content connect with people and encourage them to engage? In this article I'll show you 26 ways to make content that engages people , in an A-Z guide of tips. #1: Authors Matter Written content doesn't exist without authors, whether constructing 140-character posts or 1000-word articles.

A couple years ago, Jay Baer wrote a great blog post called 'The 39 social media tools I'll use today' which was an all-in-one toolkit for social media marketers (and still is). A lot has changed in the two years since that post was published so here is a 'remix' featuring 50 (mostly free) tools you can use on a daily basis.

Over 90 free Twitter tools and apps to help with analytics, scheduling, discovering, unfollowing, and anything else you may need.

Brands continue to leverage hashtag holidays whether it's something new like Pi Day or as traditional as a national day like Easter.

Brands continue to leverage hashtag holidays whether it's something new like Pi Day or as traditional as a national day like Easter.

OK, where to begin? These thoughts will sometimes race through my head when I'm sitting down to focus on social media time. I'll fire up Twitter and Facebook and Buffer and want really bad to ensure that I'm covering all my bases and spending time in the best way possible.

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“One of the simplest, most creative, most joyous apps ever written.” — David Pogue, Yahoo! Tech

Voice helps you create stunning animated videos in minutes. No filming — just talk to tell your story. Pick from over 25,000 beautiful iconic images to show your ideas and Voice automatically adds cinematic motion and a soundtrack. Persuade, inform and inspire anyone online. Make an impact.

“It’s one of the company’s most beautiful iPad apps to date, and it’s incredibly easy to use." — Macworld

“The end result is a polished, professional-looking job (seriously) suitable for your business, or just making all the others kids in class look like rank amateurs.” — Engadget

YOUR VOICE TELLS THE STORY.
• Fun, fast and super simple.
• Touch to record your voice, one line at a time.
• Voice automatically adds the perfect soundtrack. Play it back and hear yourself sound amazing.

TAP TO MAKE IT BEAUTIFUL.
• Pick from the stunning collection of over 25,000 icons and millions of images, or use your own.
• Choose a custom look with one tap: beautiful fonts, colors, and motion make every element memorable.

AMAZING RESULTS. IN MINUTES.
• Voice automatically adds cinema-quality animation so your story looks incredible. Effortlessly.
• Share your video on Facebook, Twitter, email, or your own web page for anyone to watch, on any device.

This app is currently available in English-only.

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All the Social Media Management Tools you'll ever need for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Content management, reports, contests and user ranking.

Whether you’re creating it, consuming it or curating it, content is hot business. With an estimated 27,000,000 (source) …

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In order to better understand how brands can drive consumer engagement with images, Curalate's data science team reviewed over a half million images on Pinterest, and examined 30 different visual characteristics- including textures, colors, and presence of faces - to learn how they impact social actions such as Pins, Repins and Likes.

Create topic pages with photos, videos, tweets and documents. Share them with everyone.

Find the most shared content and key online influencers.

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.

The CLIPZINE is a content curation platform that is able to create a Reusable Sharable Portable stylish zine page like beautiful magazine-style. Clipping -> Styling -> Sharing

Crowdbooster measures and optimizes your social media marketing by providing powerful, easy-to-use analytics and recommendations on Twitter and Facebook.

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