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Tools to Boost Your Productivity on Twitter » TweetLater.com

Tools to Boost Your Productivity on Twitter » TweetLater.com.

This was recommended to me by Rob Bailey, in some follow-up after a teleseminar with Juliette Powell, social marketing expert.  Juliette, of course, had recommended using appropriate social networking to boost marketing, sales, market research, inter-office communication, and build community.  She mentioned using 3rd party apps (applications) to speed up the process, since it can be mundane and time-consuming, by using Twitter via mobile phone to generate info, which the 3rd party apps disseminate to Facebook, blogs, etc.

Social Marketing Security and Control Tips

Many people and companies are using social networking as an integral part of their marketing strategy.  But if you’re new to it, it may seem overwhelming, especially the part about setting up safeguards.  HoneyBeeBuzz Internet Marketing will do a series on how to secure your privacy while social networking.

Here is Control Tip #1 for Facebook:

Control Who Can See You:

Go to Settings
>Privacy settings (more global): profile, search, news feed/wall, and applications (this is different from the Application settings below. It contains their overview and global settings for applications in general.)
and
>Application settings (application specific)

In order to see your FB, people must be your FB friends. Then certain elements of my profile are limited even further.

Great Viral Videos That Just Make You Crave What They Offer

Can I just say that Honda has the best viral ads?  From the Element crab’s “I peench, I peench!!” to the CR-V ad of chocolate-covered strawberries, they’re the best.  Short, simple, funny, memorable — the things you want to share with your friends.  Which is why we bring you these examples of fine viral video marketing from 2 different ad campaigns:

Why are these viral videos so, well, viral?

Because you just More »

Meebo Chat Center – Time Saver

Making good use of social marketing and their chat features but tired of scanning through multiple sites and trying to keep up?  Try Meebo.  It’s what  we would call a chat condenser application.  You register all your chat sites, for instance from Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, AIM, etc., and then go to the centralized Meebo location to chat with all of them.

Here’s a screenshot to give you an idea of how it works:

Meebo.com screenshot

As Meebo says, it’s free, there are no More »

VoxOx.com | Take Control

Looks like a centralizing tool for VOIP (like Vonnage or Skype (which we highly recommend), email, social networking (like Facebook, etc.), video calling, etc.

VoxOx.com | Take Control.

What do you think?  Have you tried VoxOx?

These types of online tools are great time and money savers and are extremely effective marketing and sales tools.  They are also great for intra-company communications, and for running a virtual team.

What do you use them for?  Which tools do you use?