Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends by Adam Sherk on October 1, 2009 This week Google started embedding a Hot Trends graph at the bottom of search results pages for queries that fall within their top 100 fastest-rising search terms, as seen in this example screenshot: While checking out search trends is interesting for users, it can also be valuable to publishers. Does this work? Sometimes. So how do you monitor these trends? Here are some free resources for identifying hot topics and search trends. MORE >>

There are as many social media tools as there are posts about these tools. At the beginning of this boom of social media tools lists, I’ve published my own version of tool kit which had over 20, 000 views and over 400 RT’s and to be honest wasn’t really worth that kind of attention, but today I wanted to share with you a special list which may not surprise you, but may validate your choice of the tools. It is a list of tools which has been used by top social media people generated from the interview series with Top Social Media Citizens. Delicious. MORE >>

But one way that Facebook could be used as a social bookmarking tool is through adding links. Delicious. Sending a Link on Delicious. Add Delicious members to your network. Delicious is known primarily as a social bookmarking site. There are many great ways to use Delicious for bookmarking, such as bookmarking posts with descriptive tags so you can find them later. Reasons to Use Delicious for Social Bookmarking. Tags: Social Media amplify delicious diigo facebook stumbleupon twitter Twitter. Favorite a Tweet on Twitter. Facebook. Diigo. MORE >>

A quick check has shown that I’ve been using Delicious since November 2006 , although my addiction to Google Reader means I’ve never used social bookmarking as heavily as some friends and colleagues. Around two years later, in October 2008, I started using Diigo as my primary social bookmarking tool – not only does it rival Delicious in terms of general features, but it has a handy auto-export for Delicious, meaning that I would always have a duplicate of the 600+ bookmarks I stored since (lately the majority have been saved to auto-feed out to 140char.com ). MORE >>

Skip to content The Cube Home About us Speaking/Training Contact us Pitch us Subscribe Survey results: The top Twitter tools and apps 06/10/2010 tags: Twitter tools and apps by Gemma Went This is the second in the series of results that came out of my tools and apps survey a few weeks ago. The first post covered general social media tools. This second installment looks at the best Twitter tools, something you guys have been asking a lot about recently. Twitter monitoring or listening tools Tweetdeck , again, came out on top with 58% of the votes. MORE >>