How Twitter is Empowering Businesses
In this video I interview Laura Fitton, founder of Oneforty, inbound marketing evangelist at HubSpot and co-author of Twitter for Dummies.
In this video, you’ll find the best Twitter tools for your business needs. Laura also gives some great insights into how you can use Twitter to connect with your audience, even offline.
Be sure to check out the takeaways below after you watch the video.
Social Media Monitoring Tools: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What’s New This Week?
Oneforty and KISSmetrics Publish Cool Infographic on Social Media Monitoring: Their infographic is based on a survey of 150 social media professionals. It provides a list of popular social media monitoring tools and insights into how marketers use them. Check out the useful data below. 
22 Hot New Social Media Tools Worth Exploring
Are you looking for the hottest new social media tools and services? We asked our team of Social Media Examiner writers to share their best new social media discoveries.
What follows is an amazing list of social media tools you’ve likely never heard of—covering a wide range of categories:
- Tools for pictures, video, audio and screen capture
- Tools to measure and track results
- Tools to manage content
- Blogging tools
- Twitter tools
- Other social media tools
Try them out. And be sure to report back here with your thoughts.
5 Ways to Kill Twitter Spam
Are you sick and tired of Twitter spam?
Direct messages on Twitter are a great way to take that next step in social networking. But too many direct messages can waste your time.
Are all of your direct messages from people you really want to network with? Do you find yourself spending too much time listening to unwanted noise and managing spam?
Here are five ways to control of your Twitter direct message inbox. 
How to Make Twitter More Useful for Your Business
If you’ve been using Twitter, you’ve likely checked out an app or two to make your Twitter experience more robust, or even just a bit easier. TweetDeck, Twitpic and Tweetie are all examples of Twitter apps.
What if I told you there was a magical place that could easily be your one-stop shop for all your Twitter needs? Yes, this place really does exist. It’s called OneForty.com, the Twitter equivalent of the Apple App Store.
Twitter Still Rocks for Businesses
Before I jump in to tell you about all the benefits of OneForty, I want to point out that in recent months two reports have surfaced that show Twitter being the #1 choice of all social sites for professionals. 
5 Simple Steps to Getting Your Business on Twitter
According to the 2010 Social Media Marketing Industry Report, Twitter is one of the social media tools most businesses want to learn more about.
If your business is not yet on Twitter, this article is for you. Creating a Twitter profile is quick and easy to do; however, you want to make sure you take the right steps when setting up your Twitter accounts.
This is the first of a two-part series of tips for creating Twitter profiles to both facilitate engagement with your Twitter audience and build a strong brand online. 









