3 Tools To Manage Your Social Networks While You Are On The Go

Posted: 7/23/2013

I know how hectic a social media marketer's schedule can get, busy with all the planning, framing strategies, getting things done, evaluating the done things, working on promotion campaigns and what not. There always comes a 'that's it!' moment, in fact many of us already have but I guess it's the love of what we do and the fun part of it is what keeps us going. In this tight schedule we forget the fact that we all are entitled to take a break once in a while otherwise work would not be fun after a point of time.

Most of us work 24/7 and as time passes by we get so accustomed to our daily routine that we forget the need to take a break. That's maybe because of the fact that a social media marketer's work never ends. Your audience is not restricted to any geographical location, the whole world is your audience and so most of the time you have to be online doing things, the rest busy making plans and yay! you do get to sleep in between.

Some of us are able to take out time and go out, do stuff and some of us are busy working, feeling jealous of the fact how other people are enjoying the summer, people like me. Yesterday, I had my 'that's it!' moment. A friend's recent hiking photographs made me realize that I need to take a break and have some fun and that too before the summer ends. I know I can't take a no-gadget vacation but one thing that I can do is to connect with people over the phone or the laptop. So I started looking out for some handy tools that can help me and all my fellow social media marketers manage the companies' social network from anywhere.

There are many apps that you can use to efficiently manage social media while you're busy travelling. Here are my top 3 favorite tools, have a look:

1. HootSuite

HootSuite is one of leading social media management dashboard available with over 7 million global users and over 4 million messages send over everyday using HootSuite.

HootSuite makes it easy to manage and measure one's social networks with ease and also helps in scheduling messages and tweets, track brand mentions and analyze social media traffic.

HootSuite is available both as a desktop version and mobile app (both Android and iOS).

2. Alternion

Alternion is a social aggregation and communication center that allows you to combine and manage all of your web activities, news, photos, videos, contacts and emails. It also emphasizes on user privacy.

Alternion is a user friendly tool, you can signup using either Facebook or Twitter. So if you want to manage all your social accounts from one place, then you must try Alternion.

Alternion is available as a desktop version only but the company is planning to move to other platforms as well.

3. Netvibes

Instead of just posting updates across all your social networks, you're also looking for a monitoring dashboard then Netvibes is just for you. You can add all your social networking platforms and your various email accounts and manage everything like a boss.

With Netvibes, you can do everything from brand monitoring to tracking clients, customers and competitors across your social media accounts and even manage your e-reputation.

No matter who you're an agency, enterprise or a just a normal user, Netvibes will help you combine your RSS feeds and social media accounts along with n-number of tools and services to manage them.

Netvibes is available for both desktop and mobile (both Android and iOS).

So what are you waiting for take a small break from work, let these apps do the work and enjoy the summer before it's gone.

Well, these three are my top favorite apps. What are yours? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.

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