Social Media Tools & Applications Recommendations
Social Media Tools Recommendations from Neal Schaffer & Windmill Networking
Over the course of the years, many social media tools and applications for businesses have been reviewed on this site or been used by myself or one of the contributors, so now it’s time to compile these into a resource to help you make an informed decision as to what you should use for your business. I am actually in the process of creating my own social media application to add to this list, but until that time, please use this as a resource to help find the best tools and applications to help you maximize your social business.
If you are the creator of a tool or application that you would like to be considered to add to this list, please contact Neal.
Recent revisions:
- 10/15/2012 Added 1 Social Media Management Dashboard
- 10/14/2012 Added 1 Social Media Management Dashboard, 1 Social Media Influence Analysis Application, and 9 Facebook Applications
Social Media Management Dashboards
There are many tools that you can use to help you manage all of your social media accounts at once without having to log in to each social media website separately:
- Argyle Social
- Buffer (Buffer review)
- BuildChatter
- CoTweet (CoTweet review)
- HootSuite (HootSuite Pro review)
- MarketMeSuite (MarketMeSuite review)
- Sendible
- SocialMotus
- Social Oomph (Social Oomph review)
- SourceMetrics
- Spredfast
- Sprout Social (Sprout Social review)
- StatusPeople
- TweetDeck (TweetDeck review)
- TweetTwain
- ViralHeat
- Vitrue
Social Media Monitoring Applications
While social media management dashboards also give you the ability to monitor mentions, these social media monitoring applications usually go much deeper to give you access to more data as well as more analytical capabilities regarding mentions of your brand throughout social media and the blogosphere:
- Actionly
- Alterian SM2
- Attensity
- BrandWatch
- Collective Intellect
- Crimson Hexagon
- Infegy
- Omllion
- Radian6
- Sysomos
- Trackur
- VenueLabs
- Visible Technologies
Social Media Influence Analysis
These tools are used by companies to segment social media users as well as potentially consumers into those who have social media “influence”:
Social Media Analytical Applications
Social CRM
Social Media Compliance Platforms
Coming soon!
Social Media Enterprise Internal Communication Platforms
Facebook Applications
- EdgeRankChecker
- FaceItPages
- FanBridge
- FanPageEngine
- Heyo
- Involver
- Post Planner (PostPlanner Review)
- Strutta
- TabSite
- Wildfire
Google Plus Applications
Coming soon!
Instagram Applications
Coming soon!
Pinterest Applications
Coming soon!
Twitter Applications
- Fake Follower Check
- FollowerWonk (FollowerWonk review)
- Paper.li (Paper.li review)
- SocialBro
- SocialPing
- Tweepi (Tweepi review)
- Tweepz (Tweepz review)
- TweetGrid (TweetGrid review)
- TweetSpinner (TweetSpinner review)
- Twellow (Twellow review)
- Twitter Counter
- Twylah (Twylah review)
- WeFollow (WeFollow review)
WordPress Plugins
- All in One SEO Pack (All in One SEO Pack review)
- bbPress (bbPress review)
- BWP Google XML Sitemaps (BWP Google XML Sitemaps review)
- cbnet Ping Optimizer (cbnet Ping Optimizer review)
- Comment Redirect (Comment Redirect review)
- Dagon Design Sitemap Generator (Dagon Design Sitemap Generator review)
- DiggDigg (DiggDigg review)
- Disqus (Disqus review)
- FeedBlitz FeedSmart (Feedblitz FeedSmart review)
- Hello Bar (Hello Bar review)
- My Recent YouTube Widget (My Recent YouTube Widget review)
- MyTweetLinks (MyTweetLinks review)
- Outbrain (Outbrain review)
- PollDaddy Polls (PollDaddy Polls review)
- Premise (Premise review)
- Scribe SEO (Scribe SEO review)
- SEO Facebook Comment (SEO Facebook Comment review)
- SEO Friendly Images (SEO Friendly Images review)
- SEO Rank Reporter (SEO Rank Reporter review)
- SEO Smart Links (SEO Smart Links review)
- Sharebar (Sharebar review)
- Social Media Widget (Social Media Widget review)
- The Slide (The Slide review)
- Tweet Old Post (Tweet Old Post review)
- Tweetily (Tweetily review)
- WP Greetbox (WP Greetbox review)
- WP Smush.it (WP Smush.it review)
- WPtouch (WPtouch review)
- Zemanta (Zemanta review)
Here is the list compiled of the best WordPress plugins for SEO and social media.