It's easy enough to set up a competition or a vote on your Twitter account. it's not quite so easy to gather up and analyze your data and return tweets to judge the results. Interactwive is a contest and game tool for Twitter that gets you creating in seconds and analyzing the results as soon as they start to come in. If you want to run a competition or a vote on Twitter but Interactwive gets you set up to go in seconds. It’s your contest, and you can set it up how you want. Just input the specifications ... Read more
Good website owners and managers will keep a constant eye on their online performance. Great ones will find an analytical tool that will transform the confusing stuff into valuable business insights. DashThis! is a business stats management tool for your domain that will create executive dashboards from any Google Analytics account. It delivers a wealth of analytics to help even the most Luddite of business managers make sense of it. DashThis! Wants to change the way you've been dealing with web analytics. The goal is to transform confusing analytics into valuable business insights for small and medium business managers, ... Read more
To keep up with the current music scene you really have to know what's going on overseas as much as you do domestically. What's big in the US, UK and on the iTunes music charts is probably going to be the next big thing where you are too. MPlayr is an innovative music streamer that let's you hear exactly what is big in music all around the world. And it's completely free. MPlayr is an internationally available music share streaming tool for popular music charts that you can easily share with your social networking sites. You can listen to ... Read more
It's all well and good to monitor your website performance by eye but sometimes a little deeper analysis is required if you really want to be on your game. Userlook is a web monitoring platform that enables you to see what's happening with your website right now so you can react immediately and optimize it's frontline to engage customers more readily. Userlook provides a lot of features for real-time monitoring of your website. You can see what is happening on site right now and react fast on site events and empower your frontline to engage customers. After a quick ... Read more
One of the more complex pieces of information when analyzing yours or your competitor's website is understanding the keywords by which it is located through Google search. Webstatedomain is a free online domain seo stats tool that collects and analyzes domains and the keywords for which those domains were optimized. Webstatsdomain collects detailed information about keywords by which sites are located in search results. However, it's not just your information you are seeking. It also notes the keywords and plenty of other statistics from your potential rivals and similar sites so you can see where you are going right ... Read more
If you manually update your tweets on specific holidays and special events over the year you will know what a pain it is. You feel such a fool when you forget one. eggtweeter is a Twitter tool that is truly an egg-timer for your tweets. If you have to send a time sensitive tweet or want to set up your greeting tweet for all the national holidays for the year - you can do it with eggtweeter. eggtweeter is a scheduled tweet web app that currently is in a free open beta. It enables you to set up all ... Read more
The theory isn’t rocket science, if you buy something at well below its real value then you not only have a bargain but the potential to make a hefty profit when the rest of the world catches up. The theory may well not be rocket science but the number crunching required to analyze the treasure locked away in a business’s financial statements could be viewed by some as such. Read more
Well it used to be called Pingvine but it's now known as PowerShell from PowerFM but that's beside the point. We'll call it Pingvine for convenience sake. It's a free service that takes an RSS feed from your website or blog and posts it on your Twitter account easily and error free. PingVine is a free Twitter and RSS tool that takes an Atom or RSS feed from your blog, lifestream or favorite website and posts it to Twitter, Ping.fm or Identi.ca. It does this with a simple drag and drop technique and manages to reduce any errors (human ... Read more
Now here's a social networking tool that takes the spirit of the community quite seriously. LocalHero is an iPhone tool that connects you with friends and local people who have the skills you may need to help you out in a crisis. Or maybe you are just looking for people around you who have similar interests to you. LocalHero can put you together with them too. We live such busy lives these days that you can often overlook a friend who has a special skill. Maybe one is a wallpaperer...one might own a horse. Maybe you need someone to ... Read more
While it looks and sounds like just a bit of fun, Piktochart really does have a place as a design share tool in the business and blogging community. It manages to find a way of turning the story you are trying to tell into an infographic picture. It is said that viewers comprehend and remember six times more information from an infographic picture than they do from a printed word version...something to think about. Piktochart is a stress free way of getting your message across to an audience that has sat through thousands of boring presentations littered with graphs ... Read more