Tweet Within the world of social media, we talk a lot about which tools that might be good to use when monitoring an online presence, since it can be tough to keep up with the stream of new tools. However, I think this infographic does a good job in providing an overview of different social media monitoring tools and the questions related that can be relevant for your business. Oneforty is the social business software hub that came up with this infographic after having surveyed 150 social media professionals to gain insight into their main concerns in relation to social media monitoring. MORE >>

Tweet It is always important to draw up guidelines for how to manage your social media channels – both for the everyday community management and if your brand changes community manager. An example could be guidelines for editorial planning to strengthen the identity of your community, to create and plan content and to monitor feedback. However, a community manager must always consider thoroughly every piece of content before posting – using his own judgement and the guidelines. quick and easy-to-use guide to stay on track in social media. Similar Posts: Become an EdgeRank Ninja. MORE >>

Tweet With the increasing number of businesses using social media, there’s now great focus on the role of being a social strategist. But who are the persons in this type of job and what does it take? That is what the infographic below tries to answer. found the infographic on Mashable. It’s called “Social Media for the Career Minded”, and it portrays the personality, education, career paths and responsibilities of today’s successful social media strategists. What it takes for a strategist. What do you look for in a social strategist? MORE >>

Tweet 2011 was a great year for social media where we saw true integration of “social” to our lives. To demonstrate the growth of social channels in the last one year, here is an interesting infographic designed by Internet marketing firm Dream Systems Media based on the data provided by AdAge. It is pretty impressive to see that Facebook has grown to more than 800 million active users, adding more than 200 million (that is one fourth of the total number of users) in last year. Twitter now has 100 million active users and LinkedIn has over 64 million users in North America alone. MORE >>

In my blog post How to Boost Your Number of Followers on Instagram , I wrote about the importance of monitoring your activity on photo-sharing application Instagram at the same level as  you monitor your other social media presences. Simply Measured just made that task easier with the launch of a new Instagram reporting tool. This tool will help your brand to better understand how to get the most out of the photo sharing gold mine by optimising your Instagram activity – and consequently to better reach your potential community within the mobile app’s 80 million users. MORE >>