A completely non-comprehensive collection of resources, programs, and apps for social media managers. There is so much more out there, but this can help get you started.

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A completely non-comprehensive collection
of resources, programs, and apps for social
media managers.
!
There is so much more out there, but this
can help get you started.

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Content Discovery
Finding relevant content to discuss and share
■ Trending topics dashboards:
SlideShare ,Twitter, Facebook, YouTube,
Google Search
■ Reddit and Digg
■ Websta.me
(Trending Topics on Instagram)
■ Rebloggy
(Trending Topics on Tumblr)
■ Viral Video Chart
(viralvideochart.unrulymedia.com)
■ Social Mention
(when you need to find something on
social…and Google just won’t do.)
■ Daily (by buffer app)
News Aggregators, Custom News
Feeds, Targeted Discovery
■ Feedly
■ Paper.li
■ Flipboard
■ www.swayy.co
■ PopURLs
■ mention .com
■ Kyoo
■ Quora
■ scoop.it
■ Newsle
■ Curata
Brian’s Bag ‘O Tricks Brian Rudolph: www.linkedin.com/in/brianrudolph/

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Know When Fans Interact With Your
Owned Content
■ PinAlerts (notifications whenever someone pins something
from your website)
■ Tagboard.com (search on #hashtags you are using)
■ IFTTT (search for premade recipes)
■ Google Alerts
■ Twilert
■ ChatCatcher (finds Tweets about your blog posts)
Brian’s Bag ‘O Tricks Brian Rudolph: www.linkedin.com/in/brianrudolph/

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Photos and Visuals from Apps
(when you’re doin’ it on the fly)
■ Instagram, Hipstamatic (photos and
filters)
■ Photoshop Apps (editing)
■ Skitch (Photo editing now part of
evernote)
■ PicMonkey (editing, effects, etc..)
■ Phonto (text over photo in app)
■ Over (text over photo in app)
■ PicFrame (mosaic, frames, etc…)
■ PicStitch (mosaic, frames, etc…)
■ OverGram (Instagram Editing)
■ PicLab (editing, effects, etc..)
■ Phoster (poster style photo
manipulation)
■ VSCOcam (grids and multi-image)
■ Screenshot (screenshots)
■ GifBoom (animated gifs)
■ A Beautiful Mess (text
overlays, filters, borders, more)
Brian’s Bag ‘O Tricks Brian Rudolph: www.linkedin.com/in/brianrudolph/

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Video and Animation from Apps
(when you’re doin’ it on the fly)
■ iMovie (don’t knock the
original)
■ 8mm (old style video filter)
■ ChatterPix (makes photos talk)
■ Directr (video production just
bought by google – android
only?)
■ YouTube Capture (enhanced
video production)
■ Lapse It (timelapse)
■ TimeLapse (timelapse)
■ HyperLapse (New Instagram
timelapse)
■ Animoto (animated slide
shows)
■ Explain Everything
(whiteboarding, notations, )
■ ABCYa Animate (stop-motion
animation)
Brian’s Bag ‘O Tricks Brian Rudolph: www.linkedin.com/in/brianrudolph/

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Enhanced Content Creation and Editing
■ Screenr (web-based screen recorder)
■ LICEcap @ cockos.com (animated screen capture)
■ Canva (graphic design app)
■ Timetoast (shareable, embeddable timelines)
■ ThingLink (makes images interactive)
■ Piktochart (infographic creator)
■ Visual.ly (infographics and more)
■ Meme Generators (memegenerator.net, imgur.com/memegen, quickmeme.com,
memedad.com, MemeCrunch, keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk)
Brian’s Bag ‘O Tricks Brian Rudolph: www.linkedin.com/in/brianrudolph/

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Extra Photo Resources
Animated GIF search Engines
■ http://www.giphy.com
■ http://www.gifstache.com/
■ http://gifsoup.com/
■ Getty Images (embed for free)
■ PhotoRepost (reposts
community content)
■ Flickr Creative Commons
Search
■ Google Reverse Image Search
(determine attribution for any
photo you source from the web
and confirm the rights/license
for use)
Brian’s Bag ‘O Tricks Brian Rudolph: www.linkedin.com/in/brianrudolph/

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Audience engagement
■Wedgies (social polling)
■ Rafflecopter (giveaway and sweepstakes)
■ Givver (donate via tweets)
■ Sharedby (engagement bar via short link)
■ bit.ly (short links and analytics)
■ Nurph (twitter chats)
■What Would Seth Godin Do (plug in that adds messaging to
posts)
Brian’s Bag ‘O Tricks Brian Rudolph: www.linkedin.com/in/brianrudolph/

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Project Management, Productivity, and Collaboration
■ Asana
■ Basecamp
■ Divvy
■ Do.com
■ coschedule.com
■ Trello
■ Wunderlist
■ Excel, Google Docs (shared
calendars and spreadsheets)
■ Evernote, Google Keep, One Note
■ Triberr (finding blogger
influencers for collaboration)
■ RoundTeam (trusted twitter
contribution/collaboration)
■ fiverr (find assistance)
■ HelloSociety (Pinterest
collaboration community)
Brian’s Bag ‘O Tricks Brian Rudolph: www.linkedin.com/in/brianrudolph/

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Publishing and Management Tools
(Free or low cost)
■ Hootsuite
■ Postling
■ Buffer
■ Sprout Social
■ Tweetdeck
■ Tweepi
■ Pagemodo
■ SocialBro
■ Tweetie
■ Objective Marketer
■ Latergramme – Instagram
■ Statigr.am - Instagram
■ Viralwoot – Pinterest
■ ViralTag – Pinterest
■ DoShare – G+
■ RoundTeam – trusted twitter
contribution
■ Tweetbot - Twitter
■ TubeMogul - YouTube
Brian’s Bag ‘O Tricks Brian Rudolph: www.linkedin.com/in/brianrudolph/

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Social Media Management Tools
(Enterprise)
■ Expion
■ SproutSocial
■ Spredfast
■ Percolate
■ Sprinklr
■ Adobe Social
■ ExactTarget
Marketing Cloud
(Salesforce)
■ Shoutlet
■ Hootsuite
Enterprise
Brian’s Bag ‘O Tricks Brian Rudolph: www.linkedin.com/in/brianrudolph/

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Automation
Triggers and Marketing Automation
Vendor Examples
■ Marketo
■ SilverPop
■ HubSpot
Home Grown Recipes
■ IFTTT
■ Zapier
■ Twibble (checks your blog
via RSS and publishes to
Twitter)
Brian’s Bag ‘O Tricks Brian Rudolph: www.linkedin.com/in/brianrudolph/

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Web Integration and Live Sharing
When you need to publish ongoing content live and real-time as
events unfold
■ Storify: Collate and Publish social content and media live
■ Livefyre: With Storify, blogging comments, Sidenotes and chat and blog
management. Paid service that takes Storify concept even further, and adds
management
■ ScribbleLive: Real-time content creation, real-time website updates, live
coverage
■ RebelMouse: manage content live across social channels, apps, website
or blog. Update in real-time and moderate contributors
■ Shareaholic: Web Integration and Conversion
■ Bundlr: Create bundles of content and then share or embed
■ TumbleCloud: Collaborative Digital Storytelling
Brian’s Bag ‘O Tricks Brian Rudolph: www.linkedin.com/in/brianrudolph/

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Analytics and Listening
■ Google Analytics
■ Twitter Showdown
■ Edgerankchecker
■ Social Bakers
■ Facebook Insights
■ TalkWalker
■ Social.co
■ Simply Measured
■ Bottlenose
■ Brandwatch
■ Social Searcher
■ Twtrlnd
■ Socialmention
■ UberVU (owned by Hootsuite)
■ BrandWatch
■ Sumall
■ BuzzSumo
■ NetVibes
■ Topsy
■ Cyfe
■ Synthesio
■ All My Plus
■ Swix
Brian’s Bag ‘O Tricks Brian Rudolph: www.linkedin.com/in/brianrudolph/

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Thank you
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