Welcome To Tools for Social

This is our "social lab" where we try, test and experiment with different social tools and practices.  Our goal is find the best resources and help you:

  • Get more out of your social efforts
  • Use less time and effort while producing better social results
  • Demonstrate a real return on investment (ROI) in your social programs

Or as we call it, "Social Media Judo" -- The Art of Minimum Effort and Maximum Efficiency for Social ROI.

The end result for you is a site that features what we find to help you use social tools, technology and information to run and grow your digital business or endeavor.  We have scoured the Web to find tools and information growing businesses and entrepreneurs can use to:

  • Manage your social media efforts
  • Build your business
  • Create your brand
  • Work with your team and/or clients and share information and documents
  • Build a community
  • Create a blog
  • Track and evaluate your marketing
  • And, much, much more

All the tools are located on the tabs and arraigned by category on the left side of the page and updated as needed.  We personally have used these tools for our own social media marketing business, Ivy Worldwide.com, and are using them to build and grow this site. 

Also, we receive no compensation from any of the companies/tools/information listed here.  This is simply our attempt to give back and help people use the resources out there to create better customer engagements and social programs.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any tool suggestions or examples of how you have used these to grow your business.  The way to share them with us is by using the comments tab also on the left of the screen.

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Blog Creation Tools - Posterous

Tool Name:  Posterous 

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Link To Tool: http://posterous.com 

Cost: Free for now

What is it in plain terms?  Posterous is the tool we used to create this site.  It allows custom URLs, custom themes, easy editing and posting and we were able to create this blog in about 5 minutes.

What do you use it for? Being that Ivy Worldwide maintains toolsforsocial.com, fixsed.com, and judosocialmedia.com, we need to be able to update our multiple blogs quickly and efficiently. Posterous makes this very easy.  New posts can be submitted simply by uploading a word document, and Posterous automatically formats it to be viewed online.  This allows us to allocate more time to the bigger game, and leave the more cumbersome tasks to the online tool.

How we used the tool:  Being that Ivy Worldwide maintains toolsforsocial.com, fixsed.com, and judosocialmedia.com, we need to be able to update our multiple blogs quickly and efficiently.  Posterous makes this very easy.  New posts can be submitted simply by uploading a word document, and Posterous automatically formats it to be viewed online.  This allows us to allocate more time to the bigger game, and leave the more cumbersome tasks to the online tool.

Full Tool Overview: 

 With it, you can create sites or groups to share messages and information.  With every Posterous Site:

  • Create your own customized site using dozens of themes to choose from to help make your site feel like your own. Want something even more custom? You've got the control to do it.
  • Send anything, Posterous will make it look great: Send a photo, it will resize and post it. Send a video, it will convert it for viewing on the web. Documents get embedded. All the hard work is done for you.
  • Autopost your content to social sites: Post once, post everywhere. If you like, it can automatically send your post to any number of popular sites like Twitter, Facebook, or Flickr.

With every Posterous Group:

  • Email lists just got a whole lot better: Forget the annoying things you hate about email lists. Get messages right away, get a gorgeous digest once a day, or use the web and bypass email altogether.
  • Avoid dodgy attachments: Posterous will resize, convert, and host your attachments for you, making sure everyone in your group can get it simply and easily. Send whatever you like!
  • Take control of your privacy: What's posted in your group stays in your group. Control who can post, read, and who can invite others.

Social Site Uses:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Flickr
  • Picasa
  • Vimeo
  • YouTube
  • RSS Feeds
  • Wordpress
  • Many others

 

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