Tumblr, bitly, Buffer: 3 tools for social media magic
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You can read the full blogpost here: http://blog.mention.net/my-top-3-social-media-tools As mention's Community Manager, I go over three of the tools I use to find and share great content with our community: tumblr, bitly, and Buffer. Mixing these services and tracking the results with mention is a great way of engaging with users and finding that perfect social media "voice" that just works, no matter when you're posting.
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Tumblr, bitly, Buffer:3 tools for social media magic
1) Tumblr
Yes, tumblr.
You mean the one full of food porn and - well, just porn, only kids and hipsters use?
The one that Yahoo! - Yahoo!? - just bought?
Yup.And tumblr's where the
content's happening right now.
Happening = Created, shared, modified,
recontextualized, made into a gif, mashed up with another gif, then
shared, modified, and recontextualized all over again.
I love the sense of space and humorthat the platform has:
Gifs like these take advantage of tumblr's creative community and iconic feed UI
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‘Tumblrspace’
The tumblr feed is a creative testing ground. You can tell narratives and bring a sense of context to otherwise disorganized
content from other networks:
There’s a reason why Yahoo bought it.
Tumblr's where community is finding voice right now – hence, where Yahoo wants to put its ads.
A few of my all-time favorite CM-related tumblrs:
How Do I Put This Gently?What Should We Call Social Media
Running a Startup Twitter: The Comic
Now it’s time to share some of this tumblr gold, which brings me to…
2) bitly
And your second reaction
is: woah, wait, what…it’s
free?!
Bitly is one of those services where your first
reaction is like:
- Like us, they have an insanely robust free plan
- Their statistics are great, but for me, it’s about the innovative way you can organize and share links
- Bitly has hints of an emergent social network, letting you bundle stacks, discover content from your network, and see who else has
shared the same links
This is a great way to contact and
create relationships with influencers interested in the
same things. We’ve often found great advocates for our service based on
the “Who Shared a bitly Link to This Content” section.
And last but not least,the magic of...
3) Buffer
mention’s based in Paris, not a bad place to spend your weekends not worrying about
posting to social networks.
- They've got a great Chrome extension
- Quick and easy stats (love those
follow buttons too)
-But it's all about scheduling posts to
go exactly at the right time...
From the Buffer blog:Buffer is all about the weekend.
Pro tip: one of my favorite ways
of discovering and directly sharing new content is
through Y Combinator's
Hacker News via Buffer.
Have any other tools you use every day?
Let us know how you combine services and use mention to track the results.
@xoalexo@mention
