Atom : Web feeds are used by the blogging community to share recent entries’ headlines, full text, and even attached multimedia files. Crowdsourcing : A combination of the words crowd and outsourcing, it refers to asking a question via social media and collecting answers from your various communities and users. It enables  next-gen community management and social Web integrations to any site on any platform. Hashtag : Because Twitter provided no easy way to group tweets or add extra data, the Twitter community came up with their own way: hashtags. Bit.ly : Bit.ly MORE >>

These procedures can be manual or computer-based and enable the manager to listen, aggregate, publish, and manage multiple social media channels from one tool. 2) Allow the manager to quickly publish from one location to each of those channels, some provide ability to customize to each channel 3) Aggregate and Manage social data. The system allows the manager to see an aggregated view of what’s happening (from views to comments) and may offer some form of analytics and conversion metrics. There is also comment aggregation as well as workflow between teams. MORE >>

To succeed in today’s connected world, you need to build a community around your company, brand, and products. MarketMeSuite ($) | A dashboard similar to Hootsuite and TweetDeck, it can be used to manage and market on multiple social profiles, schedule messages, use geotargeting, and more. Shoutlet ($) | A community management and moderation platform for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare, and YouTube. TweetDeck (Free) | Very similar to HootSuite, only without all the bells and whistles, this client enables you to tweet and track mentions, people, and keywords. MORE >>

and Inbound Marketing Harnessing social & new media to amplify your brand, sustain your community and make you stand out from the rest! We need to aggregate or suffocate. Communities are the new News-Outlets: Like my physics teacher in high-school said, “nothing is lost, everything transforms&#. Communities, organized or informal, will dictate trends like old media used to. If your company doesn’t have or belong to a community, your influence is vanishing. They now need more than ever their community to innovate. Extanz – PR 2.0 MORE >>

and Inbound Marketing Harnessing social & new media to amplify your brand, sustain your community and make you stand out from the rest! preface this post by saying that some brands have entered social media with “cool equity&# giving them an advantage but not necessarily maximizing their community potential. It’s easy to under-serve the community and having a high number of fans does not a supportive community make. Influence & dissemination :  Influence is tribal; communities are led by subsets of people who are more tribal. Promotion? MORE >>