Thursday, October 11, 2012

Automating Social Media

Breakout 5, uLearn 2012
D.K.

Social media post-101

What not to do

  • Need context with social media 
  • FB, twitter and blogs etc reach different audiences.  Don't share info on all. eg FB personal, twitter - global
  • Aggregation tools - daily digest - each has their own context, bringing 
  • auto-dm - turn off - treats people like an advertisement.
Tools

Text expander - short codes free version, just type in a small 'code' and will create a set sentence, email addresses.

RSS reader - automates the web, to cut through the noise, middle man serving us content on what we set it up for. google reader - organise the sites you want to see.
  • Short cuts - F(full screen), N (next), K (mark unread)
  • G+ icon  at bottom of page to send out to people you want
  • Send to icon 
google.com/blogsearch
google.com/alerts
  • can set it up for email and for feed
Twitter
  • search, can save searches (under the cog)
bufferapp.com 
  • set time when tweets will go out.  Can send things out when most followers are on twitter.
  • can edit them before they go out.
  • strategic tweeting.
  • analytics
tweriod - app tells you when your followers are on twitter.


chimpfeedr.com

  • takes several RSS feeds and mashes them into one.
  • like pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
ifttt.com !!! Check this out when I get home!
  • automates sending info/pics etc from one site.app etc to another.
dropbox

myhistro.com
hootsuite

1 comment:

  1. Hey Mr W - appreciate the feature here and hope you enjoyed my session - let me know how you get on with all these tools and share how you're using them... always interested to learn from others :-)

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