Super speedy, all you needy, social media cheat sheet. Everything you need to know about branding your social media channels.

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RebelMouse made significant strides this year and now offers small brands, domains, enterprises, and publishers a way to unleash content in a visual, social and mobile way.

Resources such as TekGroup and Pressfeed offer companies a content publishing solution to give brands a way to easily incorporate online newsrooms as part of a content strategy that hits all the 2014 marks of newsworthy, social, mobile, and visual.

Other bookmark and spin-worthy finds that blend the best of SEO, social media and public relations in 2014 include relationship and influence builder BuzzStream and Inkybee, a blogger outreach and relationship enhancing tool for communications and SEO pros, alike.

Others mentioned:

Hootsuite

WpLeadMagnet.com

Flare by Digital Telepathy

Digg Digg

Livefyre

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Here are the useful social media tools and technology tips you need to manage and improve your online marketing presence.

Introduction…

In this article, I outline a collection of technology tools and tips you’ll want to consider using to improve your presence across social media. By using some of these tips to strategically choose your tools, you can get more out of your social media marketing.

There are a range of of social media tools to identify influential bloggers. Here are 3 cool tools to assist you in your blogger outreach strategies.

Digest…

#1. Follower Wonk

Follower Wonk is a Twitter centric tool that allows you to.

• Compare Twitter accounts to find and target new influencers
• Breakout followers by location, bio, who they follow and more
• Contrast your relationships with competitors and friends

#2. BuzzStream

BuzzStream provides two core functions. 

1. Link building 
2. Managing influencers 

BuzzStream helps you manage word-of-mouth marketing campaigns that create buzz, build links, and increase traffic to your website by helping you “be found” via inbound marketing channels.

#3. MozBar

Mozbar tab available for Firefox and Chrome. MozBar gives significant insights about the search engine rankings and popularity of the blog or page. This will let you know quickly the importance of the blogger as SEO metrics provide a snapshot of influence.

Social Media Tools: Discover the tools social media pros are using today and get more out of your social media marketing.

The list of 14...

• Mention was developed as a user-friendly replacement for Google Alerts.
• My favorite new social media tool is Addvocate.
• The best new tool I’ve seen in many months is called Swayy.
• eGrabber Account-Researcher is so incredibly powerful for researching prospects that it’s absolutely worth the $80 a month fee.
• Enter Compfight.
• Tagboard is my new cool social media tool.
• A cool social media tool that has helped me get a better handle on effectively managing my Twitter account is ManageFlitter.
• Socialbakers has an effective tool called Analytics Pro, which provides an understanding of how your brand stacks up against your competitors.
• Post Planner is a content management tool that runs as an application within Facebook.
• That’s why it was refreshing to discover a new free Facebook page analytics tool from Komfo.
• An interesting tool I recently discovered is Rignite, which helps monitor several social media platforms.
• One of the coolest social media marketing tools that I’ve discovered and used is SocialOomph.
• Zapier has changed the social media marketing game for me in the most dramatic of ways.
• She recommended two tools: FixYourFunnel (an Infusionsoft-specific tool) and Mobivity.

A new analytics service from Informly is helping small business owners and bloggers optimize their content production.

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“A lot of our customers are embracing content marketing and producing regular blog posts on their sites. They all use Google Analytics but it doesn’t really give them the actionable information they need,” said Dan Norris, founder of Informly. “For example they are trying to build and engage an audience but Analytics doesn’t tell them who their audience is. Informly tells them exactly who is converting on their site, what content they consumed and lists their site, Klout score and social profiles to enable them to connect further."

In addition to the people-tracking features, Informly connects to users’ blogs, brings in all of their posts and displays key stats such as views, tweets, likes, backlinks, conversions and more. Users can also sort by any of these metrics to find the posts that are having the most impact.

Social Media Tools: Here are five social management tools to simplify the management of your social media marketing.

#1: Sprout Social Helps You Engage Followers and Respond in Real Time

#2: MarketMeSuite Provides an Easy-to-Use Dashboard That Works Like Email

#3: Sendible Provides Brand Monitoring and Sentiment Analysis for Businesses

#4: Socialbakers Provides Large Amounts of Data in a User-Friendly Interface

#5: Crowdbooster Does Much of the Thinking for You

How can you grow and maintain an active, relevant Twitter following? Be more productive there? Get retweeted more often? Find those answers and many more here.

Summary...

A) Twitter Tips and Guides

9 tips for managing Twitter in just 20 minutes a day by Nashville Business Journal

Twitter Rolls Out Cover Photos: How to Add Yours Today by HubSpot

50+ Creative Twitter Headers for Your Inspiration by Social @ Blogging Tracker

15 Reasons Why You’ve Just Been Unfollowed On Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC] by All Twitter

How the New Twitter Search Will Change the Way Brands Tweet by Ignite Social Media

Two new features for self-service advertisers by Twitter Advertising Blog

6 Tips to Get Retweeted More Often by Search Engine Journal

8 Twitter chats you should check out today! by Creative Ramblings

Twitter Cards: How Savvy Marketers Get More Out Of Twitter by Marketing Land

Optimizing Twitter for Lead Generation by Marketo B2B Marketing and Sales Blog

Twitter to be ‘hero’ social media channel for media brands in 2013 by The Wall Blog

B) Twitter Tools

6 Awesome Twitter Tools for Brands by DreamGrow Social Media

21 Amazing Twitter Tools for Brand Visibility and Time Management by Social @ Blogging Tracker

10 Tools for Managing Twitter Engagement by Practical eCommerce

Free Tools to Archive Twitter Search results by DoFollow.Net

7 Tools For Monitoring The Effectiveness Of Your Tweets by SocialMouths

Hashtag Discovery Tools by LunaMetrics

Getting Started With HootSuite by Social Media Sun

Social Recruiting – The Ultimate Twitter Strategy Tool by Social-Hire

Your Twitter Archive by Twitter Blog