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7 Cool Twitter Tools for Multiple User & Group Tweeting


Clearly, Twitter is undoubtedly the topper when it comes to Social Media Marketing tools. Out of all the tools we use today for social media marketing, Twitter tools are the most versatile and obviously most sought after. One of the good feature about Twitter is that more than one person can use it at the same time. Multiple account tweeting is a reality today with big corporations or just about anyone with a peer team manages one single Twitter account collaboratively.

Who does group tweeting and why ?

Collaborative tweeting or group tweeting are done mainly when there is a team managing a single twitter account. Many people use Twitter for Customer Service, and there is often a team that works in shifts to manage a Twitter account 24/7. Social Media management requires 24/7 monitoring, therefore managing between multiple users becomes a necessity.

Here are some group tweeting/ collaborative shared Tweeting tools that should help you.

1.  Media Funnel

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A professional group tweeting tool that lets you manage your tweets among colleagues and peer team. Analytics and event tracking for tweets are possible with this tool making it the best among the lot.

2. Objective Marketer

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Really impressive tool that lets you schedule tweets, run campaigns and even measure them right inside the tool. Very promising tool, but costs a bit on the higher side.

3. Hootsuite

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Probably the most popular among all Hootsuite is the most reliable tool when it comes to scheduling tweets and multiple user management. Easy to manage, Hootsuite is undoubtedly the best tool out there.

4. People Browser

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This tool is more like a social media monitoring tool in itself, with excellent reports on social media mentions and sentiment reports. To add to it you can run campaigns with multiple users involved. Very impressive tool.

5. Split Tweet

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This is a multi user twitter management tool and an analytics tool combined together with no other distractions. You can use it for campaigns on brands and specifically target a social media channel. however, comparing it with other tools, you’ll miss some advanced features here.

6. Co Tweet

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An amazing social media dashboard tool created specifically for Twitter, it lets you do lot of advanced things like multiple user management, specific keyword monitoring etc. The best thing is that it has a very simple interface even with all the complexities.

If you know more such tools, do let me know in the comments.

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18 Website Speed and Performance Checking Tools

Google is taking site’s loading speed into consideration in determining its ranking. Even though this will not land a big impact, it is still something we (webmasters) should really look into. The reason is pretty simple – majority of visitors are usually in rush and no one is fond of waiting half a century before the website finally load its content or failed to load.

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In another words, if your site is slow, you are subjected to lose a lot of visitors. Visitors are traffic, traffic affects reputation and they can potentially generate revenue. It can be a domino effect if one ignore the consequences of a slow-loading site.

It is essential to identify what builds up your website before you jump into the codes trying to speed things up because it cannot be done without knowing the culprits that are slowing down your website. This article compile a collection of useful web service and tools that will help you to diagnose and analyze you site, allowing you to understand your site better.

Web Services

Pingdom

Test the load time of all Website objects (html, images, Javascript, css, iframes and others). You can also check how fast every element of your Website load and improve the slow-loading items. At the summary of test results, you see the report of the site loading time, loading time of each element, element sizes and the total number of elements.

Pingdom

GTmetrix

Combines two of the most popular Firefox performance add-ons – Yslow and Google Page Speed. Gtmetrix gives you suggestions what you need to improve your website. Although Yslow and Google page speed are recommended for Firefox, it can also be applicable to other browser.

Gtmetrix

Light Speed Now

Test your website speed performance, and get the report sent to your inbox.

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Load Impact

Loadimpact is a very important tool for large Website visited by tens of thousands visitors each day. A free account allows you to check the loading impact with 50 simulated users, anything more you’ll have to upgrade to a premium account.

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Site-Perf

Site-Perf fully emulates natural browser behavior downloading your page with all the images, CSS, JS and other files – just like a regular visitor and on the report you can see Website page loading what files start loading at first and how fast. It as very useful performance report to find elements that you need to improve your Website loading time.

Site-Perf

WebWait

Benchmark your website or test the speed of your web connection.

WebWait

Gomez Networks

Conduct a real-time Instant Test for an individual Web page to test its performance from an external node location.

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OctaGate

Allows you to monitor how long it takes for a user to download one or more of your web site pages.

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Webslug

Allows you to compare your website’s speed against your competitors.

Webslug

WebToolHub

Gives you the option to understand how your page is loading with different visitor’s Internet connection speeds. With Webtoolhub you will get information about page size, loading time with different Internet connection speeds and will get information about all Css, Javascript and Images that are used on page. Nothing more nothing less: all that you need for basic page speed test.

Webtoolhub

IWebTool

Iwebtool gives you the option to compare up to ten pages in same time. You also can check homepage, categories or posts loading time with just one click.

Iwebtool

Searchmetrics

Shows the duration of a given website. This value can be used for showing how long a website take to load and if it is better to optimize the website or change a (slow) ISP.

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BrowserMob

Get performance data on any website on the fly without having to create a test script.

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Applications

Pylot

Open source tool for testing performance and scalability of web services. It runs HTTP load tests, which are useful for capacity planning, benchmarking, analysis, and system tuning.

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Google Page Speed

Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.

Google Page Speed

YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages.

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PageTest

Internet Explorer plugin that visually displays the underlying requests made by the browser for content. It also provides suggestions on how to improve the performance of the measured page.

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Multi-Mechanize

Multi-Mechanize is an open source framework for web performance and load testing. It allows you to run simultaneous python scripts to generate load (synthetic transactions) against a web site or web service.

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Power Tools for Networking Like Your Business Depends on it!

TweetDeck to get Android beta app this week
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6 Facebook Search Engine & Data Visualization Tools

Facebook SearchFacebook Marketing is a topic we’ve covered for several years and with the significant increase in Facebook users there’s even more interest in how to make sense of what people do there. I’ve seen a significant increase in referring traffic from Facebook to web pages over the past 6 months and while a lot of that lift comes from marketing activities, I don’t anticipate the trend in Facebook users leaving to visit websites slowing down any time soon.

Participation on Facebook has traditionally been behind the login or confined to your network. With increasing amounts of content available “to the entire internet”, it’s worth exploring. Here are a few tools that you can use to search and visualize what’s happening on Facebook.

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Booshaka - Facebook search. While there are a number of tools to search public Facebook updates, most notably openbook, I like the design of the search results on Booshaka the most. In the way that you might use search.twitter.com, you can use this search to uncover what people are saying about your brand on Facebook among other things. The difference of course, is that on Twitter you know what you post goes out to the world. On Facebook, I don’t think a lot of people have a handle on where their updates are visible. As a result, any outreach efforts must be carefully considered.

If you want to get creative with search and Facebook data, then check out the Facebook API Browser created by Google’s Ka-Ping Yee.

Facebook Like Search Engine
Like Button – This is a handy tool that shows you what people “Like” in Facebook terms. You can select pre-defined categories or you can add your own sites to track. When you identify a specific site, you can then drill down and see a longer list of all the popular items from that site that have been “Liked” or shared by your own Facebook network. If you want to see a “Like” vs. “Link” based search engine, this is a basic view.

Facebook Network Visualization
Touchgraph Facebook Browser – This is the OG of Facebook network visualization tools, at least in my experience, and does a pretty good job of showing smaller networks. You can filter by network like cities or Universities and make other aesthetic adjustments. Your network can be displayed as images on the left or in tabular format. Apparently I am blue network deficient.

Facebook Network Visualization
Social Graph – This Facebook application is is for visualization, not analysis. As with others, if you have a lot of connections, it will use a lot of processing power to render. You can modify the scale up and down and see profile pages of anyone you click on.

Facebook Friend Wheel Visualization
Friend Wheel
– This is all eyecandy. The circle shows part of a social network and around the edge of the circle are 400 or so of my Facebook friends. If two of them are connected by a line, it means that they are friends with each other. If you have over a few hundred friends on Facebook, this is basically useless for insight but damn, it looks good on a Powerpoint slide. :)

Facebook search
Facebook Search
– I think the internal search engine for Facebook has a ways to go, but it is getting more useful. The more information collected from external websites of Likes & shares on top of internal page use data, the more useful it should become. One question though, why does the Facebook search page need THREE search boxes? Why not have one search box and let the user pick what kind of search? I guess they have a ways to go on the search front, but you can be certain they’re working on it.

Some of these tools are certainly more interesting than others and if you know of any particularly useful Facebook data mining and search tools, please mention in the comments. As for the tools above, there’s entertainment and curiosity value in some of the visualization tools and the search tools can yield some very interesting information.

Here’s an interesting poll question for you: Do you think Facebook search tools that leverage public data are an invasion of privacy for those Facebook users that don’t know how or haven’t bothered to update their settings?


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6 Tools For Better Blogging With An iPad

iPad blogging Like many others, I recently purchased an iPad out of curiosity. While my intentions were of discovery, I quickly found some productivity gains with blogging.

The upside to blogging with an iPad is that it’s portable and you can easily log your thoughts on a screen that is a lot more convenient than typing into an iPhone or other smartphone. Also, there are a number of apps to make it fairly easy.

The downside is that even though typing is easier on a much larger screen, typing on a screen vs. a tactile keyboard still takes some getting used to, even if you’re an iPhone owner. I also found some issues with copy/paste and for web based tools, anything that uses Flash is a no-go.

Here are several tips and tools that you can use to become productive more quickly when blogging using an iPad. Each icon links to the app store and this post was written entirely on an iPad.

Wordpress
WordPress App – The free app for WordPress is handy and is of course a very limited version of the web based version. The advantage of using the app is a simplified view and larger editing area. Basic functions like create, edit and delete of pages, comments and posts is available. If the limited nature of the app doesn’t work for you, the web based version works well too, albeit with smaller text and work area.

Bonus tip: Another handy blogging tool for iPad is BlogPress, which now supports updating Twitter & Facebook as well as upload & embedding of YouTube videos.

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Dragon Dictation – One very handy workaround awkward typing on the iPad is to use speech to text. I had pretty low expectations of Dragon speech to text software but it’s pretty easy to use. You just speak into the microphone on the iPad and then copy the text from Dragon software over into WordPress or wherever it is that you’re blogging with. There might be a few small edits to make, but I found it to be pretty efficient and pretty accurate. Speech to text saves a lot of time and it’s something you can do when typing isn’t convenient. In fact, most of this post was done with Dragon.

PhotoPad
PhotoPad & Built-In Screen Capture – With many blog posts, I capture images as screen grabs and then do some editing to customize for a particular blog post. iPhones and iPads can easily take a picture of whatever is displayed on your screen by holding down the top and bottom buttons at the same time. The image is automatically stored to your images folder.

Then I use the free PhotoPad app to open the image and do basic editing. Upload the image using WordPress and you’re all set. Editing options are very limited and I would love to get other recommendations.

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Disqus Pro App – We use Disqus to manage comments on Online Marketing Blog, so moderation duties can be handled in part with this app that is made for iPhone, but usable on the iPad.

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Echofon Pro – What good is writing a great blog post (or dictating one as in our case here) if no one knows you’ve published it? That’s where tools for Twitter and/or Facebook come in. I use Echofon for my Tweeting activities on my iPhone 4 and the iPad. In regards to blog promotion, it’s a quick way to share links to your best posts. There is a Tweetdeck app for iPad too, but I’ve had little luck getting it to work.

analytics app
Analytics App – If you need a quick fix for top level web stats for your blog and you use Google Analytics, then this app comes in handy. Like the other apps on this list, it’s limited, but can offer you info on the go.

Will the iPad server as a replacement device for blogging over the laptop?  For now I would say no. The limited features of the iPad apps over their web counterparts means too much switching back and forth between app and browser. However, I do see the iPad providing more convenient access to blogging than a cell phone. If you’re like me and manage a large number of draft posts at any given time, being able to finish off a post in between watching streaming movies on Netflix or HuluPro can add a slice of productivity to an otherwise all-entertainment device.

There are many other apps for iPad and if you have found some that are particularly useful for blogging, please share in the comments.


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Comparing Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools

Web Analytics TV with Nick & Avinash continues with episode #10. This time the hosts discuss:
  • Tracking un-subscriptions with negative values
  • Sources of keywords outside of Paid Search to help site optimization
  • Tracking form validation with Google Analytics
  • Why Exit Rate is 0% in the Google Analytics navigation summary report
  • Comparing Google Analytics and Webmaster tools
  • Best practices for tracking PDF downloads
  • Getting the full referring URL in Google Analytics
  • Sharing custom reports with advanced segments
  • Best way to find keywords from mobile traffic


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10 Reasons Why Your Analytics Are Failing & 13 Tools To Help

Fail Whale AnalyticsWeb Analytics are a key indicator to the health and performance of any website, but online marketers often get lost in the complexities and details, forgetting how important analytics actually are and why.

Analytics can provide a wealth of information but marketers often look at high level indicators such as: top content, bounce rates, entrance sources and keywords without tying it all together. In most cases, there is a tremendous amount of insight that can be used to make smarter marketing decisions, but most companies barley scratch the surface. At the OMS Minneapolis event last week  Adam Proehl gave an excellent presentation on analytics failures and successes. I’ve taken my notes from that presentation and combined them with my own opinions to create this list.

10 reasons why your web analytics are failing:

You speak numbers to non-number people.

wha wha whaIt takes a numbers person to dig though large amounts of analytics data, figure things out, and draw conclusions. However, most people aren’t “numbers” people.

Many marketers like charts and clear, action orientated data. Charts are good, numbers in red and green help, and so does simplification. Don’t present tabular data just because it make sense to you. Try and think about who you’re presenting the information to and how they like to consume information. Some people like tables, others like graphs. As online marketers make an effort to understand the audience on the web they’re trying to reach, so should they understand the internal audiences that they report results to.

The statistics are fuzzy.

Michael JordanIt’s easy to combine different pieces of data and come out with a great conclusion, even if they don’t go together.

For example, did you know that Michael Jordan and I have a combined total of 6 NBA championships?

While that statement is true, the conclusion is a bit skewed. Yes, Michale’s 6 plus my 0 do equal 6, the fact is that that I didn’t do any of the work for those championships, but I’m still getting the credit as I was included in the statement.

In analytics it’s important to break out the data so that it makes sense, not just so it looks good. It’s easy to combine two pieces of information in ways that make things look really good, but in reality, is something being hidden?

The averages are flawed.

Averages are great unless there is a major spike or dip. Then they have a tendency to skew the data a bit too much.

Analytics Chart

Based on the graph above, you could say that we’re averaging 1652 people from StumbleUpon a day. But in reality, most days there were less than 50. The big spike just screwed up the average.  As quickly as that spike came, it can also disappear and making decisions based on the daily average isn’t a best practice.

Sometimes things just don’t work.

FailThere are lots of things that can go wrong with the analytics from a website and that has to be taken into account. The tracking code could be implemented incorrectly, maybe some special tagging was setup improperly, there could be issues with site architecture or maybe there are just things that are out of our control.

Analytics isn’t perfect and the reporting is never going to be 100% accurate, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the numbers are wrong.

The important thing is to fix the issues you can and work with the numbers you have.

You don’t understand the customer.

UserWhy are people visiting our site? What are they doing while they are here? What stage of the buying cycle are they in?

Thinking that you know your customers is one thing, but you really need to watch their behavior and see what they are actually doing.

Maybe visitors are focused on research or maybe they can’t find what they’re looking for when they get to your site. These are things analytics can tell you if you look and once you know what your customer is doing, you can modify your site to fulfill their needs.

You don’t connect the conversion dots.

Connect The DotsGetting visitors to the site is one step. The next step is making sure you have content that is going to satisfy their need. As stated above, analytics can help with this, but once prospects fill out the contact form, what happens next?

How many decisions are made by looking at top level analytics alone? Someone has to tie leads back to the website to determine what is working and what isn’t.

For example, in a B2B situation, a whitepaper download may be bringing in lots of leads, but none are qualified. Maybe there is a CTA (call to action) form that is bringing in few leads, but they convert very well. Analytics can’t tell you what happens with a lead after filling out a form, and connecting that data is very important.

You don’t dig deep enough.

Magnifying GlassLooking at one metric in analytics and making a decision seems like a good idea unless you’re not seeing the whole picture.

A good example would be bounce rates to a landing page. Just because the bounce rates are high, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad. You need to dig into the data and find out the conversion rate as well.  Changing a landing page because the bounce rate is higher than normal but that also has a higher than normal conversion rate may result in lost sales.

You don’t tie in outside data.

External DataMarketers should be looking at other online and offline marketing efforts and tie them into web analytics wherever they can.  Ideally, an online marketing program should track different sources for different outcomes such as: people from Twitter to conversion, knowing which conversions came from email campaigns and what offsite marketing tactics are working.

You don’t take the time.

TimeAnalytics isn’t easy. It’s not something anyone can do in an hour a day (except maybe those that read this book of course). If website marketers really want to get valuable information out of analytics, they need to invest time and resources into talent that can make that happen.

Analytics can seem complex and yes, it takes time and talent to make sense of them, but in the end analytics can paint a picture of how users are interacting with a site, what the user behavior is, and point out ways to make your site more successful and profitable.

Bonus: 13 analytics tools to help you out.

  • ShareThis – Social sharing button that can tie data into Goggle Analytics.
  • Snip and Tag – Firefox extension that allows you to easily copy a URL and tag it with Google Analytics code.
  • GA? – Firefox extension that quickly shows if Google Analytics is installed on the page or not.
  • Better Google Analytics – Firefox extension that enhances Google Analytics.
  • Enhanced Google Analytics – Another Firefox extension that enhances Google Analytics.
  • Twitalyzer – Analytics for social relationships.
  • Bit.ly – URL shortening with analytics.
  • Google URL Builder – A way of tagging URLs with Google Analytics code so they can be tracked on external sites.
  • Excellent Analytics – Microsoft Excel plugin to pull Google Analytics data directly into Excel.
  • Site Scan GA – Scans a website to find out what pages have analytics installed and which ones don’t.
  • Web Analytics Solution Profiler/Debugger (WASP) – Firefox plugin that debugs analytics.
  • Crazy Egg – Heat mapping tools that allow you to visually understand user behavior.
  • ClickTail – Heat mapping tools that also track where uses are when they bail on a form.

What are some of your favorite web analytics tools?


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6 Free Tools for Advanced Affiliate Marketers

When it comes to advanced affiliate marketing there are some tools and services you can use without having to shell out big bucks. If you want to do things like check how many backlinks you have, find out what page rank your site is or see if that new article you wrote is enough characters for a directory submission then you might be glad to know there are a lot of great free online tools to help you. Advanced affiliate marketing doesn’t mean you have to shell out a lot of money to use premium tools and online services. There are plenty of great free tools available that make analyzing, optimizing and marketing all much easier and more efficient. Let’s take a look at the top 10 free tools for advanced affiliate marketing.

1. Pingler.com and Pingomatic.com – These two websites are great for getting your content or new websites indexed quickly. Just made a new blog post or launch a new site? Ping it! Using both of these ping services you can alert blogs and the search engines of recently updated or released content which will not only speed up your index time but possibly give you a chance at drawing in some additional traffic.

2. SEO Toolbar – This toolbar is actually a plug-in for the popular internet browser Firefox. It only takes a few minutes to install and get up running but using this tool you can easily and accurately judge your competition and see what you’re really up against by analyzing their backlinks, PR and many other factors including dmoz listings. This utility is completely free and has a huge following amongst SEOs.

3. Tracking202.com – For any advanced affiliate marketer who does pay per click advertising or wants to track his or her traffic and conversions, this is the way to go. This service is completely free to use and it is extremely powerful. You can track PPC campaigns on a wide array of networks and easily track conversions and ROI with a just a short amount of set-up time. There are great free videos on the website on how to get started and setting up your account to track your sales.

4. Google Alerts – This is a great free tool that many people don’t take advantage of. If you’re a product creator or market under your own name setting up daily, weekly or monthly Google alerts is a great way to find out what people are saying about you. If you’ve got a product you launched you can monitor what people are saying about it and see if it gets posted to any pirating sites. If you’re trying to brand your own name or distribute content keep a Google alert set up to see when new content gets indexed.

5. Affilorama Free Tools – Affilorama’s Free Affiliate Marketing Tools include a portfolio of unrestricted, free-to-use affiliate marketing tools to research, and automate tasks. This suite includes a URL Redirect tool, Domain Locator, Clickbank Earnings Calculator and a Word to PDF convertor.

6. Traffic Travis – A great free SEO tool to use is Traffic Travis. This free tool was rated on Cnet.com with 4.5 out of 5 stars and is an excellent free alternative to other expensive SEO programs. This software will give you a good idea of the search volume certain keywords get in each search engine (Google, Yahoo!, MSN) and will generate as many keywords as you like from your “seed keyword.” The software is completely free to download and use and is one of the better free keyword research tools online.

This guest post was written by Jason Acidre, a Marketing Consultant for Affilorama, an affiliate marketing portal. They provide affiliate marketing education and advanced affiliate marketing tools for beginning and advance affiliates. 

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Raven Tools to Sponsor BlueGlass LA

Great news today coming out of the BlueGlass and Raven Internet Marketing Tools camp ~ Raven Tools will be a premier sponsor of the BlueGlass LA conference on July 19th and 20th in West LA.

Raven Tools has been a long term supporter of SEJ and our conference series, as they have sponsored the Search & Social Summits and also power SEJ Tools, our cobranded SEO & social media tool suite. It’s hard to think of a more supportive company than the team over at Raven, and on behalf of the BlueGlass team I’d like to express our ongoing gratitude.

BlueGlass LA has only four total exclusive sponsorship spots, and with Raven on board, we will only have two spots left (the other sponsor will be announced later).

Exclusive to only 300 attendees, and just around $500 (use discount code seobook for 15% off!), BlueGlass will be bringing you top notch knowledge and education and best in class networking. You’ll go home with ready to implement strategies and the contacts to make business happen! Plus, the BlueGlass conference is in West Los Angeles, located within walking distance of Venice Beach and only 15 minutes from LAX. BlueGlass LA is a must attend event.

BlueGlass LA

The speaker lineup for BlueGlass LA reads like a list of top quality Keynotes, and includes leading technologists and entrepreneurs like :

Ben Huh from ICanHasCheezburger
Rand Fishkin from SEOmoz
Neil Patel from KISSMetrics
Tony Adam from MySpace
Marshall Simmonds from The New York Times
Greg Boser of 3Dog Media
Dave McClure from FF Angel
Vanessa Fox from NinebyBlue
… and many more!

I really encourage you to visit our agenda and speaker list .

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6 Useful tools to access Facebook at Office (without letting your colleagues know)


Facebook has now overtaken Google as the most visited site on a daily basis. Though I believe that it doesn’t make sense to block or prohibit the use of facebook/other social networking tools at work, we know that many offices do. That’s fair on their part but there are several tools available that will help you access facebook in many ways other than the browser. If you’re embarrassed loading up the facebook page all the time on your browser, these tools are for you.

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Though many of us are facebook addicts, not many of us know that you don’t necessarily have to logon to facebook every time to do everything. Of course, everyone prefers the straight way out logon to facebook, get updates, upload photos etc, that’s what we were taught. But there are several gems of free software available that will help us do almost all the things on facebook without actually logging in to the facebook page. Quite handy if you want to save time and most importantly, don’t get distracted. Let’s take a look.

1. Scrap Boy

Scrap boy is a one stop application for many social networking sites such as facebook/myspace or even orkut. It lets you access the site and do all the regular stuff such as facebook chat/ commenting / status updates etc. Basically everything you do on facebook through a different application.

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2. The Facebook Toolbar

This guy sits in your browser, however gives you updates on the go. You don’t have to keep refreshing or clicking on your homepage link to see what the updates are. Save loading the facebook page itself, if that saves you from some embarrassment at the office, and get updates on the toolbar.

3. Bubbles – Facebook Desktop Application

Bubbles turns Facebook into a desktop application with easy access and notification features, without having to change your browser, or the way you interact on Facebook. A tray icon and minimize to tray for Facebook as any other application, tray notifications on all your Facebook news feed events, such as photos, invitations, friends status changes and more.

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4. Seesmic for Facebook

I love all seesmic apps, they’re awesome in all respects ! And Seesmic for facebook is no different. It uses Facebook Connect to let you update your status and view friend status updates without surfing to the Facebook site itself. Very handy and useful !

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5. FB Look

So you’re in office  and the software you spend most of your time with is Outlook. Okay, then FB Look is for you. It sits right in Outlook and gives you updates on your friends status updates and also lets you update yours right from Outlook. Did I mention that your boss would never figure this out ?

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Screenshot via – Techhit.com

6. Facebook Quick – Desktop Application

This guy does four things precisely. And that’s all we ask really. :)

  1. Receive instant profile notifications on your desktop
  2. Stay connected with your friends, groups, and events
  3. Monitor your Facebook profile without a web browser
  4. Enjoy all the fun facebook has to offer plus more!

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Now having said that, watch out for that geek at your office, he probably knows all these stuff. As for the others you’re safe, your boss will never know that you’re a facebook addict.