Online Tools – Twitter Tools – Managing Your Twitter Network
February 17, 2012 by admin
Filed under Blog, tools, Uncategorized
Online Tools – Twitter Tools – Managing Your Twitter Network 
Twitter is a great tool, but sometimes it is a bit difficult to manage your network. Manage Filter is a handy tool that allows you to filter your Twitter Network on many levels.
This tool will allow you to find those in your network that aren’t following you back, haven’t tweeted in a while, who are inactive and you can also search on keywords in your network’s bio and other information.
We suggest periodically checking out your network and cleaning up those that are no longer active on Twitter.
You can find this tool at the link below:
Online Tools – Content Cu ration – Paper.li
Online Tools – Content Curation – Paper.li
In today’s fast paced world one challenge that many people encounter is how to find information and sort through what is important and relevant to them. There are several tools available to us now that will help with this. These tools are called Content Curation Tools and they do exactly that, curate content for you to read and review and report on in some cases.
One Content Cu ration tool that we really like and often use is called Paper.li . This is a very handy tool because it allows you to add many sources to check for your information. These sources can include RSS feeds, keywords being talked about on Facebook and Twitter, particular Twitter users, Particular Google Users and much more.
One other feature of this tool is you can browse other papers created by others that may have information you are interested in. It is a great way to find out what is being talked about right now and allows you to share and comment on this information.
Here is the link to this great tool: Paper.li
Online Tools – Your Own Research Assistant – Google Alerts
Online Tools – Your Own Research Assistant – Google Alerts
One online tool that I feel every business owner should have in place is Google Alerts. Google Alerts is a tool from Google that will search the web for you and when new content is found with the search term/keyword you are looking for Google will let you know. This tool can save you a lot of time. No longer do you need to perform searches on your own, Google will find the information and let you know when it is there.
This can allow you to stay on top of your field/niche because when new information is available you know!
There are many options available with Google Alerts that will allow you to set the time you search for information as well as how you receive it. Below you will find links to the Google Alert Tool and links to the Help and Getting Started Section for Google Alerts:
Google Alerts Help and Getting Started
Online Tools – Gain More Time and Productivity
Online Tools – Gain More Time and Productivity
One wonderful benefit that we have today as business owners is that there are several tools available to us to help us manage our business and become more productive. A lot of these tools have been developed to work with the Social Networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Many of these tools have been developed to help us find information and even organize our time better.
In the next several posts we will be covering a handful of tools that we have found useful in managing day to day tasks and think you will to.
If you have tools that you use daily in your business we would love to hear from you what they are and why you like them.
Customize your Facebook Profile
January 12, 2011 by admin
Filed under Blog, Cool Sites and Technical Tips, Social Media, tools
Customize your Facebook Profile for Branding
Facebook is a great tool to use for marketing and branding for both businesses and individuals. Depending on what your focus is you may opt to build your network with a personal Facebook profile verses a Business Facebook Page.
If you choose to use a personal profile there is a new application that you can use to tweak your profile and help strengthen your personal brand.
Schwepps the beverage company has created this application and made it available to you for use. It is called “Profile Yourself” and it gives you the ability to run a giant photo via multiple windows on your profile page.
Here is a video that show how this app works.
You can get the application at Schweppes Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/SchweppesFanPage
If you are looking for a few more examples of tweeks you can make to your page you can check out this article from Mashable: http://mashable.com/2010/12/14/new-facebook-profile-hacks/
Compare how your company is doing with others in Social Media
December 23, 2010 by admin
Filed under Cool Sites and Technical Tips, tools
Have you ever wondered how your Facebook Page or Twitter Account compares to your competitors or others in your industry?
There is now a great way to find out using a tool from WildFire called Social Media Monitor. This tool will allow you to put in your Facebook Page info and the information of the page you want to compare and show you where you stand. You can also do this with Twitter accounts.
This tool can be found at: http://monitor.wildfireapp.com/
Get a Social Media Policy for your Business
December 22, 2010 by admin
Filed under Cool Sites and Technical Tips, Social Media, tools
Social Media is something that your business can no longer ignore. This being the case many companies are begining to craft Social Media Policies to ensure that all expectations of Social Media activites and employee use of Social Media is covered.
Creating a policy can be a large task to tackle. We have found a tool that will help you get a jump start on this process. The tool is called Policy Tool and it will walk you through the process online of creating a policy.
This will give you a basic policy to start with. When you are ready to expand this policy we can assist you with our Social Media services here at SourceOne Technologies.
How can you discover pages on Facebook you want to follow?
December 8, 2010 by admin
Filed under Cool Sites and Technical Tips, tools
Facebook is a great resource for businesses to market on. In fact we encourage all businesses to create a Facebook Page for their business and start using this to engage current and prospective customers.
One question that we often here is how do we find the pages we want to follow? For our business customers that are creating Facebook Pages we work with them with strategies to let their target markets know about their page. These strategies include using email marketing, adding a link to their website, adding a link to their email signature as well as some targeted campaigns.
But what ways are there for an average user to locate pages they want to follow? Facebook heard this as a need and not too long ago launched a tool that allows you to browser for pages. This tool can be found at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/browser.php and is called the Facebook browser.
A search engine just for Facebook – FacePINCH
September 23, 2010 by admin
Filed under Social Media, tools
FacePINCH is a search engine that will search posts and status updates on Facebook of those that have thier privacy set to public. Once you enter a keyword or a phrase FacePINCH will return real time results.
In playing with this tool, it can be very useful in tracking a brand, watching keywords and finding new connections related to a specific niche
Tools for your business – Make a call directly to your client’s voicemail
Have you ever needed to reach a client or prospect and get them information, but for some reason you didn't want to talk to them? Maybe your were running late or had bad news? Well now there is a tool that you can use to get connected directly with thier voicemail on their mobile phone.
This tool is Sly Dial and is the perfect tool to help you out when you only want to leave a voicemail.
