As there is more and more content being pushed on increasing levels of social platforms, it gets difficult to filter all the good stuff out there. Thankfully, there are also new tools being created that help curate content.

In this article 5 Tools to Battle Social Media Content Overload, there are 5 tool presented:
Summify
Buffer
SocialBro
Bottlenose
Twylah

Are you familiar with them and do you use them? Any other tools you would recommend?

@fredericgonzalo  Summify is a great tool to send you interesting blog posts from those that you follow on Twitter. 

Buffer is a good tool if not over-used. Basically you should use it when you see a blog post you want to share on Twitter or Facebook – it basically simplifies the sharing process by spacing out your tweets throughout the day instead of posting them all at once. 

Twylah basically turns your Twitter into a webpage of sorts. Not sure how it can help you manage content overload. 

I haven’t used the others, although I am hearing some good things about SocialBro. 

Another great tool in Hootsuite, which lets you manage multiple accounts from one dashboard. And it’s free for up to 5 accounts!  

Cheers!Russ

@russellallert I also use Hootsuite to manage my various accounts, and absolutely love it.

In terms of tools, my personal favorite did not appear in this article, and it’s Zite. It’s an application for iPhone and iPad (I do believe it also works on Android platform) and it’s great to generate articles according to your fields of interest.

@morganbarnhart I agree with you about automation, Morgan. Which is why I am cautious of Buffer and only use it for sharing content I come across while surfing the web.

I also use the tools you mention and they are great!

One thing you have to remember about all this, is that these tools are about sharing content, not creating it. If you are not writing/delivering unique content as well as sharing others, you can only go so far.

I wrote a recent blog post on the 5 stages of Twitter use, but I think it translates well across social media in general too.

Cheers!
Russell Allert

thanks for starting this thread, I’ve never heard of any of these, I have used hootsuite also but isn’t that to manage the output of content not the intake? @fredericgonzalo @russellallert I went to your blog (and clipped it with evernote to go back more) and thanks so much for sharing your link. Your blog looks great and I can tell contains a lot of helpful information. Finally, I may get a handle on twitter!

@deairby Hootsuite can help you do both!

@deairby

Hey Dea

You can set up streams in various Tabs which save your searches, Lists, keywords, etc which you can use to sniff out content and keep track of favourite Tweeters, for example.

Start playing around with Hootsuite as it is a truly useful tool and they are adding new features all the time.

If you need to know how to do anything specifically, then let me know and I will try and help.

Russell Allert

Thanks, @deairby I am glad you have gotten so much out of my posts.