Before starting the new cycle of posts discussing the startups’ which may affect the lives of Social Media Citizens, I decided to share this “Must-have” list of social media tools which have already found their place in our daily routines.

Blogging tools – Desktop publishers for quicker and easier Blogging

Word2007.com/blogging

Windows Live Writer

Zoundry Raven

Blog It! – a Facebook application

Scribefire – Firefox add-on

Promo tools – Help to promote your content on social webs and submit your stories to multiple bookmarking sites for consumers’ evaluation

Onlywire.com

Pressitt.com

But don’t forget to use the old ones – Digg.com , Technorati.com , Del.icio.us, Buzz.yahoo.com , Propeller.com , Reddit.com , Stumbleupon.com

Tracking tools – Help to keep the track of conversations about your brand or your personal brand on Social Media Sites

http://www.google.com/alerts

http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/

http://www.jodange.com/

http://www.cocomment.com/tools/extension

http://backtweets.com/

Social desktop aggregator – Help to mange your social networks in one single place

http://www.sobees.com/

http://tweetdeck.com

http://seesmic.com/

https://destroytwitter.com/

Synchronized status updating tools – Help to change your status at one or more social networking websites at once

Ping.fm – To most of the Social Networking sites.

TweetSync – Twitter – to – Facebook.

Twitterfeed.com – Facebook – to – Twitter – Explanation how to setup it (Post-your-facebook-status-to-twitter)

Hootsuite.com

Video distribution tools – Help publishers to upload and deliver online videos to multiple video-sharing sites

http://www.tubemogul.com/
http://heyspread.com/
http://www.vidmetrix.com/

Content Aggregators – Help to mange your RSS feeds and saves a lot of time dedicated for reading the news or researching

http://www.netvibes.com – Personal favorite!

http://www.pageflakes.com

http://www.google.com/reader/

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