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Snapguide is a free iOS app and web service for passionate, creative people and DIY enthusiasts. Share and discover beautiful, step-by-step how to guides. Robin Good: Snapguide is a new free iOS app which allows anyone to create a step-by-step visual guide on just about any topic.
Guides can include text, images and video clips and everything can be authored directly on your iPhone but can be viewed on the web, tablets and phones. Finished guides can be easily shared on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and an integrated chat functionality lets you chat with people who share your interests. Free to use. Examples: http://snapguide.com/guides/ ; More info: http://snapguide.com/ ;
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If you want a few tips on how to best create a great chat on Twitter, here are 15 hashtags that fit the bill.
Robin Good: Here is a handy short guide to nine free infographic creation tools that can be utilized to create enticing visuals, word charts and data-based infographics without having special technical skills. Useful. 8/10 Check them all out: http://www.infographicsarchive.com/create-infographics-and-data-visualization/ ; (Unearthed by Andres Taborga) Hey All -- sometimes in business we need to display/convey data with our storytelling. So how do you display data in engaging ways? I love this article because it shares 6 free tools to use, plus there's a little tutorial on how to make infographics. We all know how important it is to have the right tool for the job at hand. Bookmark this article so when you need the tools you have them. Enjoy playing with your numbers and showing them in different ways! Thank you Robin Good for curating this article.
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You've been working really hard at that goal of becoming a YouTube sensation. But every time you show your hilarious video to friends, they ask, "wait, what'd you say? Here to save your punch line from the crackling background noise of iPhone videos, The iPhone Boom Mic!
It's a small microphone that gives your iPhone videos big, professional style sound. Think, your subject amplified and background noise dulled....
[Gadget lovers take note - JD]
Save time creating content using these must-have tools for video, images and content creation. When most people think of creating content they default to a written blog post. But, more and more that should not be the case with infographics, images and video now playing a more important role in the kind of content that users expect. So, with the different content formats, what content creation tools are out there to help you create link worthy content?...
We've gathered a list of nine social services to keep an eye on as the location and taste graph spaces heat up. Few social services have enjoyed as much success as sites like Foursquare and Pinterest. However, companies are achieving recognition by applying similar social principles to their own niche networks. We’ve gathered a list of nine social services to keep an eye on. Like Foursquare, many incorporate location-based functionality, with the goal to connect people beyond the digital space — in real life. Other sites remind us of Pinterest, bringing users together around taste graphs and like-minded consumer habits. Whatever your preference, take a look at these nine buzzworthy social platforms. Do they represent the future of social?...
Capture and share. I like the sound of that better than Point and Shoot. You probably own a video camera in the form of a smartphone, an iPad, or one of a hundred video cameras that do, gasp, only video. This post is for the small business owner who has the creative tools, but wonders how to move that video from camera to the web....
Here are some of the latest free online tools for accounting, social sharing, online portfolios, collaboration and content management. [A couple of new ones suggested by Kim Phillips - JD]
From a site that tracks your competitors’ social media activity to a platform that enables group tweeting, here are the week’s most buzz-worthy social media tools.
Zurich-based startup Kooaba is out to replace QR Codes with a mobile app called Shortcut, an updated of an app it formerly called Paperboy. Why should marketers consider a shortcut to quick response codes? “We believe QR codes are belonging to an intermediate technology used for things it was never meant for," wrote Tom Desmet in a company blog post. "Despite the enormous media attention QR is getting, it still is not at a level where people are really using it.”...
Learn how to create an editorial style guide that helps streamline your company's content creation efforts. Content creation is central to your inbound marketing success, but as your volume of written content increases, inconsistencies are also bound to arise. Whether due to lack of clarity in your own head about the style with which you want to write, or disjointed communication across the content creators in your organization, failure to decide upon and document accepted editorial guidelinesis a recipe for inconsistent messaging and an incoherent brand experience....
Vimeo today announced that the video sharing site has undergone a major revamp. The blog entry that announced the revamp revealed that the work had been ongoing for the past year, and that staff “tore Vimeo down, thought hard about every aspect of it, and created the new Vimeo from scratch.” There are dozens of new features on Vimeo, but the main changes were made in order to make the site faster and easier, with the focus being on the videos uploaded by users, while taking users’ feedback into account when creating the new features....
Ah analytics, I love them. I take all numbers with a grain of salt but it is nice to see if your efforts are paying off and what things people share or inspire a click. For example, a recent popular tweet, based on number of clicks, was a tweet about Klout with 177 clicks – clearly my followers are interested in Klout. Some tools allow you to see who has unfollowed you and who your new followers are or even help you find new people to follow. I also find it nice to know who my biggest retweeters or mentioners were for the week and acknowledge them. I am glad I picked this question, because I have some seriously smart friends answering and they had a few surprises for me....
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Robin Good: Google Search Stories Video Creator is a free web service which allows you to specify up to seven queries that utilize one among Google search engines, and which then creates a video clip of those searches. Each one of the searches can be run against a specific Google search engine between Google News, Google Web Search, Google Blog Search, Google Maps, News, Products and Books. Once the video is ready and you are fine with it you can upload directly to your YouTube channel. Free to use. Examples: https://searchstories-intl.appspot.com/en-us/ ; Try it out now: https://searchstories-intl.appspot.com/en-us/creator/ ;
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Managing social media, making public WiFi secure, backing up Gmail - there's probably an app for that, or a cool web tool, and you'll probably find it here. ...There’s an app for that—or cool web tool. Find tools to do all of the above and much more in this collection of helpful business, online and social media tools, apps and reviews.... [Just a terrific resource from the awesome Tom Pick - JD]
What are the key social media tools that PR professionals need to go from bumbling amateur to results-driven superstar? Here are 12 of them. And all but one of them are free...
Visual content, curation and storytelling are the three emerging trends for 2012 when it comes to emerging niche social networks. Our recent Guide to Pinterest for Brands met with such a warm welcome that we're doing the same now for Tumblr. In this first part we're outlining what it is, how it differs from other sharing networks and how brands are already using it....
Review 13 examples of brands using LinkedIn company page features effectively. ...We recently reported that, in a study of the over 5,000 inbound marketers where we pitted LinkedIn against Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn proved to be the most effective social media channel for lead generation -- 277% more effective, in fact. As a marketer, particularly if you're in the B2B game, how could you not leverage that awesome lead generation potential? Well, it's been several months now, and I wanted to give you LinkedIn marketers out there another chance. While it was still difficult to find examples of businesses effectively using all of the company page features at their disposal, it was a bit easier to find some great examples of individual feature use....
Nimble allows you to import your contacts from email and social media and connect contact information for individual people in your network... Where day-to-day communications used to take place in the form of handwritten notes and meetings scribbled in a DayPlanner, today businesses communicate with clients everywhere from email to tweets and Facebook wall posts. One service, Nimble, is attempting to streamline all of those communication channels into one, and help businesses and individuals create better connections with the people they’re trying to reach....
Newswhip, a site that tracks what news stories the world is talking about, has published a new infographic showing which are the most viral news sources on Twitter and Facebook. The BBC is tops on Twitter and The Huffington Post on Facebook....
...there are other search engines out there, even if Google is pretty much the king, with ‘Google’ having becoming a commonly used verb- “I’ll Google it”. Of course there’s Yahoo!, Bing, Firefox, but a little bit of research has revealed many lesser known search engines. Here’s some of the most interesting ones, which are designed for specific purposes, such as increased privacy, safer searching, videos, maths and music....
What are today’s most popular social media tools? I proposed a short list on the Social Journalism Educators group on Facebook: Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Storify, Instagram, YouTube, WordPress. You’ll note (if you roll over and read the tooltip) that none of the links above go to the home page for that tool — instead, I have linked to useful articles that can help us understand how journalists use (or can use) each one of these particular tools. Then others in the Facebook group recommended the following sites and tools...
If you are a standard CoTweet user, you have probably heard that on February 15, 2012, ExactTarget will be replacing the free service CoTweet ... Below you’ll find a comparison of features and functionality across SocialEngage and other popular social media management tools in the interest of deciding which alternative is best for standard CoTweet users. The factors considered in this comparison include the ability to pre schedule posts, view messages and replies, as well as multiple user and team members support, and of course, pricing.... [Really valuable analysis - JD]
A startup is hoping to combine two hot web trends, crowd sourcing and microearning, into a single savior for cash-strapped, broadcast newsrooms. Rawporter, an iPhone app that will soon be rolled out for Android, turns almost anyone into a local news cameraman or camerawoman. Instead of dispatching a camera crew to a fire during rush hour and risk they won't get there until after the flame is out, a television news reporter can create an assignment from Rawporter's Web interface and send it to anyone with the app who may be in the area of the fire.... [Interesting development - JD]
The wealth of multimedia or social media storytelling tools available can be bewildering for journalists. Often seasoned pros asked me, what is the one thing I should learn and add to my reporting toolkit? To my mind, that’s the right attitude but the wrong question. Journalists need to be open to new ways of telling stories and engaging with audiences. But it is not about adding a new tool to your reporting repertoire. Instead it is about figuring out how to rethink reporting to ensure it remains compelling, relevant and impactful....
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