Social Media tools, What are the tools? .2

Second posting in my long journey to review over 350 different social media tools.  I have the list categorized here

I will keep that sheet updated as I make changes, delete sites I'm not planning to review, etc.  I'll try to have a link to the site on each blog post I write related to this subject.


More tools that can help you in this Social Media Jungle...

http://blogtrottr.com/ - Blogtrottr
Taken directly from the website "Blogtrottr delivers updates from all of your favourite news, feeds, and blogs directly to your email inbox, giving you the flexibility to stay updated whilst on the go. Yummy!"
If you read RSS, and by the way RSS is a fabulous source for information, having those feeds sent to your email is a pretty decent idea.  Lots of people have smartphones, smartphones can receive email, so you could read your RSS feeds whenever you have a few minutes.  Very nice idea.

http://joliprint.com/ - joliprint
Sometimes it's really nice to be able to print a webpage you are reading.  Maybe you need it as a resource for a presentation, maybe it's your own work and you want to frame it, maybe 100 different reasons.  The problem with printing webpages is that they don't format well for a printer.  All the different spaces and frames and pictures, and word boxes, just doesn't print nicely on a piece of paper.  Joliprint to the rescue!  Just enter the URL of the page you want to print and Joliprint will reformat to something a printer likes to work with.  I didn't test it for this review but they have been around for awhile, I used them many years ago and I'm sure they are better now than they were then.

http://www.printfriendly.com/ - PrintFriendly.com
Same as Joliprint above but also offers to let you add a "PrintFriendly" button to your site.

http://www.pdfonline.com/ - Create PDF Online Free
Very nice resource.  .DOC (MS Word) to PDF; PDF to (MS)Word; PDF to HTML (webpage) & Web to PDF.  Straightforward service that offers PDF conversion w/out having to purchase a copy of Adobe.  Not a lot to say here but I'm sure someone reading this is thinking "Hey..! I NEED that!"

http://pdfmyurl.com/ - PDFmyURL
Same as www.pdfonline.com pick the one that suits you best.

http://tweetmeme.com/ - TweetMeme
More of an information source than a tool.  TweetMeme aggregates the most popular Tweets and turns them into news feeds.  It's all categorized "Comedy", "Entertainment", "Gaming", "iPhone" etc etc.  Nice way to take advantage of Twitter for information.

 http://www.twitthis.com/ - Twit this
Nice service that gives you the option to put a button on your blog.  The "Twit this" button will let the reader tweet about your blog (offering a link to the blog, I'm sure but haven't verified).

http://www.quantcast.com/ - Quantcast
Taken directly from the website: "Quantcast provides direct, accurate audience measurement of your web site traffic".  This is for people serious about their blog or website.  Measures traffic to your site, offers analytics.  Beyond what I am interested in doing.

http://www.instapaper.com/  - Instapaper
Lets you save web pages for reading later.  I (did not test but) assume keeps a record on its server and lets you sync devices for offline reading.  Works with computer, iPhone/iPad & Kindle.

http://readitlaterlist.com/ - Read It Later
Same as Instapaper but gets better reviews from the guys at Lifehacker (www.lifehacker.com).  Also works with computer, iPhone/iPad and quite a few more.  Android, BlackBerry, Palm(WebOS) has add-ins for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.  I have been considering an application of this type for some time, will probably get one after picking up a tablet; when I do odds are it will be Read It later.

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp - WhoIS
Not really a tool to help you with Social Media but still such a powerful tool that it gets a mention on the list.  Sometimes its necessary to find out who is behind a site or perhaps an email.  WhoIS will find that information for you.  Simply enter the top level URL (for example, "www.androidcentral.com" from the URL "http://www.androidcentral.com/android-central-rom-review-serendipity-61-samsung-captivate") or the IP address (IE 192.168.0.1) and WhoIS will tell you who owns that domain plus a lot of other interesting information.  Give it a try and see what you find.

That concludes my review of tools.  I've replaced the spreadsheet that keeps track of what I have / have not reviewed.  My next subject will probably be "other"; the list covers a few miscellaneous items that should only take a few posts.

Please share your thoughts, opinions, rants, raves, incoherent babbling  or anything else in the comments.  I always read every one and if you ask me questions, I promise to answer them.









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