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. So we’ve taken their incredible list and have mashed it with a few favorites of our own.
25+ RANDOM, MUST-SEE SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS
Percolate – Turns brands into curators. Creates content for the social web.
awe.sm – Analytics for social media.
TweetReach – How far did your tweet travel?
Contaxio – Contact management for your social networks.
PostPost – Awesome stuff gets lost on Twitter. Strip-search your timeline.
SocialScope – A mobile inbox for your social networks.
NutshellMail - Delivers a social media summary to your email inbox.
Amplicate – Find out what people love and hate on social media.
Bottlenose - A smarter way to surf the stream.
AddShoppers – Reward sharing, measure results, add shoppers.
GroupTweet - Create a more dynamic Twitter account with multiple authors.
HowSociable - Measure your brand magnitude.
North Social - Quickly create and manage Facebook pages.
BrandMyMail - Include live social content in your Gmail emails.
Social Mention - Real-time social media search and analysis.
FeedMagnet - Social curation for websites and events.
TabJuice – Ultimate e-commerce solution for Facebook (100% free).
Conversocial – Deliver great customer service in Facebook and Twitter.
Bitly Enterprise – Short URL branding, real-time alerts, monitoring and more.
PeopleBrowsr – Social analytics for marketers.
Needium - Social media lead generation.
Crowdspoke – Find relevant content to share with customers, fans.
The Archivist – Save and analyze tweets.
MyLikes - Publishers promote your content through social networks.
Postling - Provides small businesses with social media tools.
MARKETING
Shoutlet - Enterprise social marketing platform.
Awareness, Inc. - Publish, manage, measure, engage. (Socialnomics Favorite!)
Unified – The world’s first social operating platform. Enterprise marketing.
Wildfire – Promotion, analytics, monitoring and more.
EngageSciences - The fastest growing European social marketing vendor.
LocalResponse – Helps marketers respond to real-time consumer intent.
GraphScience – Leverage the social graph. Optimize Facebook marketing.
GoChime – Reach the people who are a perfect fit for your products.
Adly – Celebrity endorsements in social media.
Hy.ly - From fans to leads. Facebook presence, contents and more.
SocMetrics – Engage influencers.
MarketMeSuite – Your free social inbox. End-to-end social marketing.
Fanplayr – Social game marketing.
memelabs - Branded Facebook contests and much more.
PowerVoice – Advertisers harness a consumer-to-consumer platform.
Lithium – Social community and marketing solutions.
Syncapse - Social media marketing, measurement and management.
Vitrue - Helps you utilize social communities for business.
Adotomi – Performance marketing for social media.
Zoniz – Full-service social marketing management platform.
Argyle Social - Data-driven social media marketing software.
Buddy Media - Offers a social enterprise marketing suite.
Extole – Consumer-to-consumer social marketing.
BuzzParadise - International network of social media advertising.
Zuberance - Energize your brand advocates.
Involver - A social marketing platform and more.
Silentale - Market and customer insights for Facebook page data.
SocialTwist - Acquire new customers using social referrals.
eCairn - Social media marketing solutions for marketing agencies.
MONITORING AND INTELLIGENCE
Netvibes - Social media monitoring, analytics and alerts dashboard.
Brandwatch - Social media monitoring tools.
ThinkUp - Free open source social media insights platform.
DataSift - Unlock insights from historical Twitter data.
Odimax - Actionable intelligence for social media marketing.
GlobalWebIndex - Provides data on users of your web presence.
Attentio - See what the world is saying about your brand.
Traackr - Find the influencers who matter to you.
Unmetric - The social benchmarking company.
LiveWorld - Moderation, community programming and actionable insight.
PeerIndex - Understand your influence across social media.
Jive - Social media monitoring and much more.
ethority – Social media intelligence.
CliMet - Maintain your brands reputation on Facebook and Youtube.
YourBuzz - Get the buzz on your business (American Express OPEN).
Eqentia - Enterprise content curation, monitoring and republishing.
Sentiment Metrics - Social media monitoring, measurement, engagement.
MutualMind - Intelligently monitor, analyze and engage.
Appinions - Discover and engage leading influencers on any topic.
Social Fixation - Apps. Automation. Awesomeness.
Digimind - Competitive intelligence and online reputation monitoring.
StepRep - Listen to what people are saying about your brand online.
Trackur - Social media monitoring made easy.
CustomScoop - Online news clipping and social media monitoring.
Beevolve - Comprehensive and affordable social media monitoring.
Visible - Social media monitoring, analytics and engagement.
Sysomos - Social media monitoring tools for business.
SOCIAL CRM
Radian6 - Social media monitoring and engagement, social CRM.
Sprout Social - Social media management, Twitter tools, social CRM.
Spredfast - Social CRM and enterprise marketing.
Nimble - Social CRM simplified. Turn communities into customers.
Sprinklr - Social CRM, enterprise social media dashboard.
MANAGEMENT
HootSuite - Dashboard for teams using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn.
SocialFlow – Optimized publisher for Facebook and Twitter.
uberVU - The intelligent social media dashboard.
tracx – An end-to-end social media management system.
thismoment - Engage everyone, everywhere, easily.
Hearsay Social - Enterprise social media software.
Sendible - Social media marketing, monitoring and management.
Pluck - Integrated social media solutions from Demand Media.
SocialVolt - Social media management software.
Engage121 - Social media management that enables customer relationships
Parature personalized approach to web-based customer service & help desk software
Tweetdeck Dashboard for teams using Twitter and Facebook
BLOGS AND WEBSITES
The Future Buzz – Digital marketing and social media blog.
SocialTimes.com – Your social media source.
Social Media Today – News, strategy, tools and techniques.
Mashable – Social media news and tips.
Socialnomics – insights from brands & experts on the why & how of social
Social Media Explorer – A blog about social media marketing.
Social Fresh – The business of social media.
The Social Media Marketing Blog – Marketing insights from Scott Monty.
Chris Brogan – Learn how human business works beyond social media.
Brian Solis – Defining the convergence of media and influence.
Britopian – Discussing the latest in social business.
AGENCIES
Likeable Media – Dave Kerpen’s agency – top clients (Neutrogena, Verizon)
Banyan Branch – Social media strategy, engagement, analysis and more.
Converseon – Social strategy and analytics agency.
Brickfish – viral map software – top clients (Redbox, Lemonhead)
Splashcube – Social media marketing and training.
WannaBeeSocial – Southwest Airlines of Social Agencies (cater small biz)
Webtrends – Social, mobile and web analytics and tools.
iStrategyLabs – Experimental social media marketing and more.
OTHER / MISCELLANEOUS
Klout - Measures social media influence.
Yammer – The enterprise social network.
Gigya - Social login, social plugins, analytics, gamifaction and more.
TrustYou – Social media monitoring for the hospitality industry.
Cyfe – All-in-one business dashboard and real-time monitoring.
Janrain – Social login, social profile storage, game mechanics, analytics.
BzzAgent – A word of mouth marketing company.
IZEA – Connects social media publishers with advertisers.
Lotame – Data and audience management platform.
OneDesk – Connect employees, partners and customers.
SocialVibe – Engagement marketing.
TwentyFeet - Social media monitoring and ego-tracking.
Timehop – What were you doing 1 year ago today?
Refollow – Discover, manage and protect your Twitter social circle.
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