Posts Tagged ‘tools’

At Social Times, one of our favorite tools of choice for managing our social media presence is HootSuite.  The service is an essential time-saver with an attractive user interface and an even more attractive owl icon.  What can be said about that owl that hasn’t been said before — big brown eyes, beautiful plumage and [...]

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Peoplebrowsr’s Viral Analytics facilitates the searching and filtering of online conversations in real time, over an extended period of time, across events, global social media stats, keywords and brands. The service is fed by a custom database with millions of social media conversations already stored and indexed. After the jump – what you need to [...]

Success as a freelancer requires more than just initiative and good business sense – it also takes the right tools. From managing your time to finding just the right photo, here are 9 of the best Websites for keeping your personal business afloat.

JobPile

The ability to drum up work is essential, but who has time to search job boards? JobPile takes listings from a several job sites – Indeed, Simply Hired, Yahoo!, HotJobs and Jobster – and funnels them into one easily-searchable location. Project seekers find at-a-glance freelance job listings in major cities across the country.

Backpack

The hardworking Backpack app helps you create an intranet online, where you can create task lists, share files and images, manage production calendars, and collaborate. Backpack also lets you create a secure e-mail system and message board. Signup is seamless, and the site offers a 30-day free trial. Read more