Other Social Media Networks and Tools
Day 55: 
Set up your Flickr Account (5 minutes)
Take the 5 Minute Leap
Day 56:
Set Up a Co-Tweets Account (15 minutes)
Co-Tweets allow multiple people to Tweet on behalf of your organization. This allows you to more easily delegate Twitter responsibilities.
- Go To www.cotweet.com
- Hit “Sign Up” and fill in your relevant information.
- Press “Continue” to be taken to Twitter’s authorization screen.
- Enter your Twitter account information and select “Allow.”
- You have just uploaded your first account.
- Select the “People and Permissions” tab and invite someone to tweet under your account.
- Click on the “Co-tweet” icon in the top left corner of the screen. This will allow you to start interacting with your Twitter profile.
Day 57:
Learn How to Set Up Co-Tags on Co-Tweets (10 minutes)
Co-Tags gives your readers a more personal interaction with you as you Tweet. Co-tags gives the ability for company users to sign the end of their Tweets to let followers know who is saying what. Although this is not a necessary step, and not all tweets need to be signed, it creates a more intimate connection with your readers, which is what social media is all about.
- Login to your Co-Tweet account.
- Select “Settings” in the top right corner of your screen.
- Select the “General” tab.
- Select Co-Tags on the left side of your screen.
- Enter your Co-Tag and press “Save.”
- We suggest making your co-tag no more than three characters long. The best thing to use is your initials and a character such as ^KB.
- Return to the Co-Tweet home page.
- Select “Post an Update” on the right side of your screen.
- Your Co-Tag will appear in the popup box.
Day 58:
Go Mobile with Social Media (10 minutes)
Day 59:
Shrink a URL with bit.ly and tiny.cc (3 minutes)
- There are two common ways to shrink a URL so it fits in your twitter update without using so many characters.
- For bit.ly, go to http://bit.ly/
- Copy and paste a URL into the text box. It will produce a new, shorter URL.
- Post your new, shortened URL to Twitter.
- For tiny.cc, go to www.tiny.cc
- Copy a long URL and enter it into the text box.
- Press “Tiny It!”
- Your new URL will appear below the text box. This service not only shortens your old url it also tells you exactly how many characters the new one is.
- Post your shortened URL to Twitter.
Day 60:
Learn About Time Saving Convergence Tools (15 minutes)
A convergence tool allows you to update all of your social media sites from one location. There are two main sites that allow you to converge your social media sites.
- To access the first one, go to www.ping.fm
- Fill in the sign up information.
- Add all of the networks to which you belong.
- Fill in account information for each one of the networks that you select.
- When you are finished selecting networks, click on the dashboard tab in the upper left corner of your screen.
- Type in a brief status update into the text box in the middle of your screen.
- Now login to the networks you selected to see your new status update.
- For the second one, Go to www.google.com.
- Select iGoogle in the top right hand of your screen.
- Create a Google account for yourself if you don’t have one.
- Sign in to iGoogle.
- On the right side of your screen below the search bar choose “Add Stuff”.
- Add the Facebook gadget by entering Facebook into the gadget search bar on the right.
- Select “Add it now.”
- You can rearrange gadgets on your iGoogle home page by clicking on the top portion of each gadget box and dragging it to the place you want it.
Additional Reading
Crowdsourced Content Aggregators: Learn about Web sites where communities of people vote on and discuss the most popular Web content.
Social Media Measurement: This section is designed to help you measure the return on investment for your social media marketing and contains links to articles on measurement best practices.
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