Social tools for the Restaurant Do-It-Yourselfer

If you missed my tweets about this OneForty.com “Essential tools for the Restaurant Do-It-Yourselfer”, I’ve corralled them all here. Add these social marketing and analyzing applications to your Twitter toolbox. Use any number of these tools to help track, schedule, share and analyze your social efforts.

Twitter Grader “FREE! A snapshot of your (or anyone’s) Twitter account, including engagement levels, number and power of followers, update frequency and quality, ratios, rankings, and status.”

Twitalyzer 2.0 “FREE! The market leading social media analytics application focusing on short-messaging media. Interactive graphics, rich visualizations, integrated analytics.”

Tweetdeck “FREE! Desktop application for viewing all the folks you follow on Twitter. Create groups, follow hashtags, post photos, share on Facebook and MySpace, etc.”

Social Mention “FREE! Social Media Alerts. Like Google Alerts but for social media. Receive free daily email alerts of your brand, company, CEO, marketing campaign, or on a developing news story, a competitor, or the latest on a celebrity.”

Tweetdeck for iPhone “FREE! Tweet on the go with all your favorite TweetDeck features, including the ability to view and update Facebook, create groups, search, Retweet, post photos and links, direct from your iPhone.”

YouTube “FREE! Create a branded YouTube Channel to share how-to, event, interview and general interest videos. You can also ‘favorite’ videos from around the web and add them to your channel. Tag, embed, share.”

TweetMeme “FREE! Add the Tweetmeme button to your blog posts and web pages, making it easy to share information and content. Trackable with analytical tools.”

BackTweets “FREE! See who’s Retweeting you, talking about you, linking to your website and blog.”

Flickr “FREE! Upload, organize and tag photos. Search engine friendly, sharable, and you can create groups to engage your community.”

Bit.ly “FREE! Not only a Twitter URL shortener, Bit.ly lets you track link clicks and conversations, and see where clickers are coming from across various channels.”

Listorous “FREE! Listorious is excellent for quickly finding individuals and organizations in your community and field by categories and checking social graph indicators. It’s also helpful for organizing and indexing Twitter lists in a variety of ways such as tags.”

Hootsuite “FREE! Excellent Twitter dashboard for managing Twitter. You can schedule tweets, create groups, follow hashtags, post photos, manage multiple accounts and view stats for all.”

Twit Cleaner “Analyzes the people you follow, identifies the time wasters, spammers, bots & those who’ve quit Twitter, etc. Allows you to easily clean out the garbage (& save those you want to keep following).”

Foursquare “Smart Phone app that let’s your customers find you, check in, and take advantage of special offers.”

TweetStats “Graph your Twitter Stats including – tweets per hour, tweets per month, tweet timeline and reply statistics.”

Tweetbook “Generate a pdf e-book of your latest tweets and favorites. Great for getting a snapshot of a special event and saving indefinitely because Twitter archives a maximum of 30 days.”

Vitrue for Facebook Vitrue aggregates how much your Facebook Fan Page is “worth”. Compare your fan page to others, like your competition and fan engagers you admire.

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