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Twitter announced Tuesday that it is discontinuing CoTweeting, a feature that let two users co-author a tweet. The company said that the feature will immediately cease to exist. Users will be able to view the set of co-tweets for a month. After that, they will be automatically converted to retweets on the co-author’s profile. “For the last several months we’ve been testing a new way to Tweet…

Twitter testira novu funkciju

Foto: Shutterstock Twitter eksperimentiše sa novom funkcijom, koja omogućava da dva naloga zajednički kreiraju tvit. Kompanija ovo naziva “CoTweet”, a funkcija je trenutno u fazi testiranja od strane selektovanih naloga u SAD-u, Kanadi i Koreji. Uz CoTweet, dva naloga mogu da se povežu kao autori jedinstvenog tvita, koji će se pojaviti u tajmlajnu oba naloga. Deluje da je funkcija više…

Introducing “Everlapse” – An Addictive New Collaborative Flipbook Sharing App

Video is beautiful but powerful. Photos are simple but boring. Everlapse is something brand-new in between. Built by the former CoTweet group, Everlapse launches today so you can compile photos into digital flipbooks, let friends add their own shots, and view the evolving creation as a rapid-fire slideshow. The free iOS app combines the visual communication of Snapchat with the stop-motion of…

So maybe we're a bit behind the times, but we recently found a study from Exact Target and CoTweet that further cements our commitment to the idea of Bread. The paper's called "The Social Break-Up," and dissects how consumers interact with brands. 

The social world is changing relationships. People aren't wearing just one letterman jacket anymore, they've got love affairs with brands, bands and even Pringles cans. These arrangements are often fleeting, though. Break-ups don't happen after hours of agonizing phone conversations -- fans and followers can dump your brand with the click of a button. 

The study starts with a number of salient points about email marketing, but what got us fired up was the discussion about Facebook break-ups. 44 percent of those surveyed said that they "unliked" a brand because they posted too frequently. Just below that number, at 43 percent, was "my wall was becoming too crowded with marketing posts and I needed to get rid of some of them." Thirty-eight percent of those surveyed were just simply bored of the shared content. 

Cue the theme music, because that's where Bread comes in! You don't want to fracture your fan base by asking people to buy things. And asking fans for likes on posts about products seems a little desperate. Instead, companies should share compelling content that engages their users. Unless you're Don Draper, there shouldn't be any place for marketing jargon on social media (we could listen to Don talk all day). Be real, be accessible. 

Leave the advertising up to us and create meaningful conversations with your followers. Bread links don't disturb your voice on social media, and they don't alter the content your sharing. We just let you show those big, beautiful billboards off.

By: Michael Sim

Michael is a social media and online marketing consultant, graphic designer and an avid blogger residing in Chicago, IL. Michael joined TheSocialSource blog in 2011 as a featured writer. He is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago, and has worked for a wide variety of web design and advertising firms across the city. Contact Michael on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, About.me and Quora.

 This article is composed of the top free social media management tool reviews. It is an unbiased look at the most popular engagement consoles available, the networks that they support, pricing, and a sourced review. All social networks are subject to have their reviews added to, revised, or removed as deemed necessary by the editor. This collection is an assembly of sourced reviews, consolidated into one article for reader convenience. The author of this article makes no claim that this is original work, but simply wishes to provide readers with a more convenient and less-biased viewpoint on their options when considering social media management applications.

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CoTweet http://cotweet.com Networks Supported: Price: Free (up to 5 social networks), Enterprise Plan $1,500/month

1. Like HootSuite, CoTweet is a free and easy tool for managing multiple Twitter accounts — up to five — with a single login. It also allows brand and keyword monitoring through Twitter search. This Twitter management tool’s true distinguishing feature is its workflow management capabilities (shown above). When an @ reply comes in to an account, you can assign it to a person on your CoTweet task to respond to. They’ll be notified via email and on their own CoTweet page. Plus, the tool allows you to take notes on Twitter users for your co-users to see. Full Article | Amp | Source |

2. CoTweet is an excellent tool for small businesses or divisions of larger businesses that spread social media duties among team members and have a customer-service approach to engagement. Like many SMM services, CoTweet allows updates and follow-up messages to be assigned to specific social media managers. This can make responses more relevant as team members with certain knowledge bases can handle appropriate questions and comments from followers. The responder’s initials are included at the end of the tweet, letting the follower know there’s a person behind the handle.  What’s different about CoTweet is its OnDuty status, which notes who is responsible for social streams at a certain time. Aside from organizing your SMM schedule, it allows for more passive monitoring. The person on duty can receive e-mails when something needs to be acted on, freeing him or her up to go to meetings or take calls while remaining aware of social media activity. CoTweet supports Twitter and Facebook and recently launched an iPhone app. The Standard edition is free and allows up to six Twitter accounts. The Enterprise version costs $1,500 a month but you can request a free demo. Full Article | Amp | Source |

EasyTweets http://easytweets.com Supported Networks: Twitter Price: Free

1. EasyTweets is a low-cost Twitter management tool for managing multiple Twitter accounts — the more you pay, the more continuous searches, feeds and accounts you can track. With this tool, you can automatically post RSS feed content and track RSS traffic in Google Analytics. That way, you can easily track traffic from Twitter and understand what users do when they get to your site. Another useful feature, the Twitter management tool lets you set up continuous searches for brand mentions (shown above), and auto follow some or all users who mention your brand. Plus, you can be set up to send SMS or email alerts when people mention your brand. So wherever you are, you won’t miss your chance to respond to a prospect. Full Article | Amp | Source |

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Hootsuite http://hootsuite.com Supported Networks: Twitter, Facebook, LInkedIn, Foursquare, WordPress, Ping.fm Price: Free (ad supported, up to 5 social networks), $5.99/month (Pro Plan); $1499/month (Enterprise Plan); Other Scalable Options Available

1. Overview: HootSuite is the Social Media Dashboard. HootSuite helps marketers manage social media campaigns, identify potential audience, and distribute targeted messages across multiple social channels. Using HootSuite’s social media dashboard, teams can collaboratively schedule updates to Twitter, Facebook (individual accounts and pages), Linkedin, WordPress and other social networks via web, desktop or mobile platforms. Hootsuite provides campaign tracking results as a summary or by individual message.

Benefits: HootSuite is one of the more popular dashboard applications, but many users may not be taking full advantage of its features. Over the past few months lots of new functions have been added that make HootSuite an option for nearly any level user. Some features that users should explore (if you haven’t already) include its ability to publish to multiple platforms, schedule updates, team collaboration tools, task assigning, real-time result tracking and web analytics integration.

Intended User: HootSuite has 3 price plans – a free Basic version (ad-supported) which provides up to 5 social networks, a Pro plan for $5.99/month that includes unlimited social networks, feeds, stats and Google Analytics integration, and an Enterprise level plan with a multitude of features for $1499/month. The basic plan is recommended for those looking to get started with a social media management system, and upgrading it to a Pro account will provide a lot of features at a very reasonable price. Power users will want to explore the Enterprise level and compare it to other top-tier SMMS options. Full Article | Amp | Source |

2. HootSuite is a great — and free — tool for managing multiple Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Ping.fm accounts. The Twitter and social media management tool allows you to personalize columns, so you can view multiple feeds from the same social networking account or multiple feeds from different social networking accounts. For example, with my personalized Twitter tab (shown above), I can view my Twitter home feed, Twitter mentions, sent Tweets and a saved search for “online marketing” — all from one screen. Plus, HootSuite allows you to create a message and choose which social accounts you want the message to be automatically posted to. Full Article | Amp | Source |

3. Like SocialOomph, Hootsuite will automate your tweets. But it’s most useful feature is how it juggles multiple social media accounts. Not only can you create a dashboard that gives lets you monitor your Twitter accounts, but you can add your Facebook (this includes Facebook pages), LinkedIn, Ping.fm, WordPress blog, MySpace and FourSquare accounts. This is so integrated that you can write one update that goes to any and all of those social media timelines/pages. I don’t want to do that, but I do use it to monitor and update accounts one at a time. It saves me time to round up all my social media activity onto one page. Full Article | Amp | Source |

MediaFunnel http://mediafunnel.com Supported Networks: Facebook, Twitter Price: Free (2 users/2 channels) or $4.95/month per user/channel

Offers a Business Social Media platform for Facebook and Twitter supporting multiple users per profile and editorial review. Includes monitoring and integrates with Salesforce.com. Full Article | Amp | Source |

PeopleBrowsr http://my.peoplebrowsr.com/ Supported Networks: Twitter, RSS Price: Free

This Twitter and social media management tool, currently in Beta version, offers a very simple, visual browser-based dashboard view of social activity. PeopleBrowsr uses an interface similar to email, with the Twitter or other social feeds appearing as a list in the center of the screen, and additional options in the left nav (see above). PeopleBrowsr allows you to create and manage groups by adding public or private tags to any users from any of your different social sites. Then you can view everyone in a group in a widget of their own. Full Article | Amp | Source |

Postling http://postling.com Supported Networks: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, WordPress, Blogger Price: Free

Use Postling to create content, stay organized and reach your customers. Link up your social media accounts and manage them all in one place. Full Article | Amp | Source |

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Seesmic http://seesmic.com Supported Networks: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, FourSquare and Google Buzz Price: Free

Web and desktop tools to manage social marketing activity on Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare, Google Buzz and Linkedin plus a plug-in marketplace for more social management options. Full Article | Amp | Source |

Sendible http://sendible.com Supported Networks: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Google Buzz, WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, and more Price: Free 30 Day Trial; $9.99/month (Solo Plan); $19.99/month (Marketer Plan); $49.99/month (Business Plan); $99.99/month (Enterprise Plan); Variety of other plans available

Overview: Sendible bills itself as a “one-stop-shop” for all your marketing needs. It allows you to manage multiple social channels, email, SMS and blog accounts all from one interface. Sendible supports Facebook status and page updates, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Google Buzz, WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and a bunch more. It provides the ability to share posts from your blogs and RSS feeds, schedule messages, respond to feedback, and provides reporting on clicks, views, shares and message reaction. Read full article here: http://chicagosocial.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/social-media-dashboard-systems/ Full Article | Amp | Source |

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TweetDeck http://tweetdeck.com Supported Networks: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Foursquare and Google Buzz Price: Free

1. This free desktop browser helps you keep track of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace activities from multiple accounts. Like the other tools mentioned here, you can update your accounts, follow topics with saved searches, and manage conversations with @ replies and direct messages from within TweetDeck. But the social media management tool offers some more advanced features as well. TweetDeck allows you to record, share or watch video clips, and view YouTube videos, from within the tool (shown above). Plus, you can share and view photos, as TweetDeck now supports Flickr, Twitgo and mobypicture. Full Article | Amp | Source |

2. TweetDeck is your best (and free) bet if you’re looking to manage all your personal social media profiles. TweetDeck allows you to connect across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Foursquare and Google Buzz. You can update all or just a few with the same status at one time. The design is clean, user friendly and even makes some networks more fun. For example, it integrates Google Maps into your Foursquare feed, visualizing your friends’ checkins. You can also view photos and videos from within the tool. As you might have guessed from the name, TweetDeck is best at managing Twitter accounts. It makes the experience more customizable by organizing feeds, mentions, messages and searches across columns. TweetDeck is probably best when dealing with four or five accounts at a time (whether that be all Twitter accounts or a mix of the other networks it supports). Though the dashboard is generally easy to use, it can get bogged down if your streams have a lot of activity, making it difficult to keep up with updates and engagement. Full Article | Amp | Source |

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An owl can save your life. For me, Hootsuite has - the social media geek in me absolutely loves this tool. Here's are three reasons why:

1. Bulk Scheduling of Posts - You can schedule posts far in advance for Hootsuite in 50 post batches, and I think this is the best aspect of Hootsuite. If you have a lot of information to share or want a bigger audience or just want your audience to see you at different hours, this is a great tool. 

2. Analytics - For the guy who loves to see social media metrics translated, this tool is perfect. You can see everything from Facebook Insights to Google Analytics. This really gives you the good top down view that your company, brand or client needs to know if they are succeeding or failing. 

3. Team Members - You can add members to your social media team. Tweetdeck is done by an individual, and CoTweet, while nice and given the ability to assign tweets, is not as robust because it slows down your computer overall while in use (by a long shot, in my experience).