Now, This is One Haven of Social Tools

Today, I stumbled on this lovely site and I thought I should share it with all my folks. SocialBrite: Social Tools for social change is the website. According to the site: "The Socialbrite team is here to help nonprofits, NGOs, foundations, social enterprises, universities, and cause organizations use social media to advance your organization’s mission."  There are tabs on Tutotials, Videos, Free Reports, Conferences.. However, there a link to tons of Web 2.0 productivity tools which have been reviewed. They suggested that you should "begin with this directory of Web 2.0 productivity tools or the Social Actions toolset." Then read the posts written on various topics of interest below. They requested you to "visit their Sharing Center for additional resources."

• 27 ways to increase engagement on your Facebook page
• 6 creative ways to use photos to increase engagement on your Facebook page
• 8 tips on how to write awesome blog posts
• 10 secrets to video storytelling success
• 7 tips & cheat sheets to help you implement the new Timeline
• 5 steps to set up your measurement program
• 5 advocacy lessons from the Kony 2012 video
• 11 ways Facebook Timeline changes your content strategy
• 7 ways to drive Facebook visitors to your site
• 6 ways to tell your stories with data
• 17 ways to revive your organization's Facebook Page
• 45 hashtags for social change
• 14 surefire ways to engage Facebook users
• 5 tips on writing knockout social media content
• 5 essential Facebook applications for nonprofits
• 6 reasons to use Flickr for your next media campaign
• 10 great get-down-to-business Twitter apps for nonprofits
• 12 ways Facebook users can 'like' your nonprofit Facebook Page
• 14 ways to improve your email open rate
• 12 ways to develop a loyal community for your blog
• 24 best practices for nonprofits using Twitter
• 12-step guide on how to live-tweet an event

Read This Article on "Monitoring Tools on The 'Net"

You know me, I work round the clock to fish out great resources for you. Today, I got this beautiful article titled: 20 free, awesome social media monitoring tools by JD Lasica on SocialBrite. You could download the one for 10 tools pdf file for here. The list include:

• Wildfire
• Social Mention
• Google Reader
• BlogPulse
• Alltop
• Hootsuite
• Google Alerts
• Addict-o-matic
• MonitorThis
• Comment Sniper
• coComment
• BoardReader
• Google Trends

Dig for Resources with Digg

According to the website, "Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our community." It is more like other social bookmarks. This is ideal starting point for your research especially if you do not have a clue of where to go. 


To test this out, I did a search for resources on Research and Ph.D and got 3,970 in the result. Yet another one of tutorials and education (2177).


Digg is also a good channel for news. I did a search on Nigeria and see what I got.

Found a Beautiful Lounge for Tutorials

Are you looking for tutorials on critical tools needed for 'ruling' the web? Yes I have found one for you. It is Tutorial Lounge. From the site, it says, "Tutorial Lounge [Learn Step by Step] is a Tutorial Blog site made to house and showcase some of the best tutorials around most famous designing and development tools are Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign, After Effect, 3D Max, Maya, Illustrator, Vector, Video Tutorials, Corel Draw, Audio Tutorials, Flex, jQuery, ajax, PHP, JavaScript, ASP, HTML, xHTML, CSS, Typography, Print Media and wallpapers. We publish and make roundup tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain the techniques behind them in a friendly, approachable manner." In addition, the site also teaches how to use Social Media tools like Twitter. Other resources available include tutorials on Blogging, Open Source i.e. Joomla, WordPress..., Videos  e.t.c. Ofcourse with lots of freebies!