Social media management tools can help businesses listen to, manage, measure and respond to conversations about their brand on the social web. With more and more social media management tools springing up on the market, it’s hard to keep track of what’s out there. We hope it will eventually become a useful social media management tool resource. Awareness : On-demand social marketing software  to help brands publish, manage and measure across social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, foursquare, and WordPress. MORE >>

Discover how to accomplish all of the tasks above and more using some of the coolest free and modestly priced social media and web tools released in the past year or so. Cool Social Media Tools. slick tool with free and fee-based options for creating graphical email signatures, adding interactive buttons and even tracking click-throughs from the different elements of your email signature. This tool makes unfollowing non-followers easy. free tool for finding the relative influence of any Twitter user. powerful people search tool. Other Cool Web Tools. MORE >>

Tired of social media experts answering Hootsuite and Radian6 when asked about social media tools? Well dailytekk.com does an incredible job of keeping a social media tools list. 25+ RANDOM, MUST-SEE SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS. MyLikes  - Publishers promote your content through social networks. Postling  - Provides small businesses with social media tools. Awareness, Inc.  - Publish, manage, measure, engage. Brandwatch  - Social media monitoring tools. Sysomos  - Social media monitoring tools for business. Social Tool List social media tools MORE >>

For most publishers social media has earned itself a prominent seat at the audience development table. To provide a strategic overview and set a framework for the discussion I came up with a list of questions that summarizes the types of issues we frequently encounter in helping publishers with social media. Here are eight social media questions that publishers should be asking themselves: 1. This seems like a very basic thing but I audit websites for a living and I see publishers making mistakes with their social sharing buttons all the time. AddThis). Social Medi MORE >>

With the amount of input coming at us from all ends of the social universe, tools are being developed that can help our brains quickly sort through this information. Tickr is a visual monitoring tool that helps process information and makes it easy to understand. They're powerful tools, but they are also very complicated. Many brands and agencies use tools like Radian6 , BrandWatch and Pulse for social media monitoring purposes, but adding Tickr makes the process smoother and easier to understand. This post was originally written and published on Huffington Post. MORE >>