Category Archives: tools

Expand Your Twitter Network With Two New Services

April 9, 2008 – 10:16 pm

Finding interesting people to follow is one of the biggest challenges for new Twitter users. It really helps to have people there whenever you log on, to answer questions, solve problems and generally communicate with. Without a community to participate in, posting to Twitter can be like a tree falling in a forest.
Two tools came [...]

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in Twitter | Comments (1)

Website Grader: One-Stop Search Engine Optimization Analysis

April 8, 2008 – 11:04 pm

Website Grader is a free search engine optimization tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of your website.
Provided by Hubspot, the service looks at over 50 factors and provides you with a score that ranks your site alongside all of the other sites it has assessed.
Just input your website’s address and (optionally) a few keywords for [...]

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in 301, search | Comments (0)

M.Utterz.com Takes You All The Way… Almost

April 5, 2008 – 5:17 pm

Utterz, the multimedia service that lets you post video, audio, pictures and text to your blogs and social networks, has just launched a mobile site, m.utterz.com.
According to the announcement, the mobile site “…really completes the circle of mobile Utterz features: you can now create, view, share and manage your multi-media posts all from your mobile [...]

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in utterz | Comments (0)

43 More Top Social Media Tips And Tools

April 1, 2008 – 11:25 pm

Back in January I posted a list of the 42 top social media tips and tools I came across over a six-month period.
This is an update with 43 more I’ve found over the last few months.
Analytics/Measurement
Tools: 13 Tools For Tracking Discussions in the Blogosphere
Your RSS reader may give you information, but it probably won’t [...]

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in social media | Comments (7)

Beyond The Bubble - Real-World Uses For LifeStreams?

March 24, 2008 – 12:16 pm

FriendFeed, Profilactic and SocialThing! target people with a heavy online presence. For now, that means people inside ‘the bubble.’

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in 201, social media | Tagged , , , | Comments (4)

Why SocialThing Trumps FriendFeed… And The Rest

March 21, 2008 – 10:07 pm

Lately, I’ve noticed a growth in aggregation tools. For me, SocialThing leads the way.

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in 101, Twitter, event planning, social networks | Tagged , , , , | Comments (6)

First Impressions of PRX Builder Social Media Release Plugin

March 10, 2008 – 10:58 pm

There’s lots of interesting stuff going on with social media releases right now. First, we have the news from last week that IABC is sponsoring development of standards for this new format. Business Wire and PR Web have already jumped on-board.
Today, on a different scale, we have a new tool to help practitioners implement social [...]

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in 301, how to, smnr | Comments (4)

What Is RSS?

March 1, 2008 – 12:06 pm

You can find definitions for “RSS” everywhere. Feedburner has a page on it; What Is RSS? is all about it; Wikipedia has a detailed page about it. The list goes on and on. They’re all way too complicated.

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in 101, how to | Tagged , , | Comments (4)

Access CNW: A Good Step Forward

February 29, 2008 – 8:01 am

I have to give CNW Group credit for trying (if you don’t know, CNW Group is Canada’s largest news wire service). In the last little while they’ve repeatedly impressed me with their efforts in the social media space.
With the help of clued-in employees like Parker Mason, CNW keeps cropping up in my social media activities:

I [...]

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in news release, pr | Comments (0)

How Online Tools Enable My Cancer Fundraising

February 25, 2008 – 3:17 pm

PodCamp Toronto helped me to step back and acknowledge the importance of the online tools I use. I’ve written about the tools I use in general before but today I’m writing about the tools I’m using for one project - my effort to fight cancer using online tools.
This project revolves around using a series [...]

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in social media | Comments (1)