9 Free Social Media Monitoring And Analysis Tools

There are many tools free and otherwise currently competing for your attention when it comes to monitoring, measuring and analyzing your social media data. I have compiled a list of 9 free tools that I currently use on a near daily basis to monitor my social media activities and for each have given a quick rundown on what to expect when using them. Google Alerts is a free service provided by Google that allows you...

Will You Reclaim Your Facebook Privacy?

The recent launch of the Facebook open graph and their suite of social plugins many users, websites, news agencies and internet celebrities have been extremely vocal about the eroding state of user privacy within the Facebook platform. Many of the over 400 million Facebook users have found the privacy controls to be far too complex with a vast array of options and setting to be tweaked and adjusted but leave users...

Tweetdeck I’m Breaking Up With You Or 10 Reasons Why You Should Be Using Hootsuite

I use many social networks including Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn on a regular basis but I don’t always have time or don’t like (I’m looking at you Twitter) going to those sites to update my status or engage with others in my network and so I became a dedicated and vocal supporter of Tweetdeck as it allowed me to update my Twitter status, Facebook status, update Fan Pages and my LinkedIn network. I used...

6 WordPress Plugins That Help Your Content Be More Social

If you are looking for an easy way to give your visitors to quickly and easily share your content with their friends and followers here are six WordPress plugins you can install on your blog that take less than five minutes to install and configure. The more options you give your users to share your content with their network of followers and friends the higher the chances are they will actually do so meaning your...