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Introduction

Social tools and social platforms are evolving at an incredible rate with new tools popping up all the time. "What's Hot In Social Tools" will be appearing as a regular event on #SWChat for the community to share what they are using, how they use them and what new social tools / platform are new to the market.

Event Question

Just one question.....

Q1) What social tools do you use for business use and why?

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Social Tools List

1. brat rapid annotation tool - online environment for collaborative text annotation
2. Yammer - collaborate securely across departments, geographies, content and business applications
3. Scoopit - Shares ideas that matter on beautiful topic pages
4. Twylah - brings your brand message into focus, extends the life of your tweets, and helps you get discovered beyond Twitter
5. RebelMouse - creates your social front page, building a dynamic site around what you share
6. Bufferapp - shares your great articles, pictures and videos automagically through the day
7. Triberr - website for bloggers interested in increasing their reach
8. IFTTT - a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement: IF This Then That
9. Connectedhq - contact management without the work
10. Nimble - solution to offer small businesses the best features of high-end CRM systems combined with the power of social media
11. eGrabber - automated list building tools for B2B sales & recruiting
12. Listly - help bloggers & brands curate, crowdsource, and engage readers via live embedded list content inside blog posts
13. Hootsuite - a social media management system for businesses and organizations to collaboratively execute campaigns across multiple social networks from one secure, web-based dashboard
14. LinkedIn - manages your professional identity and builds and engages with your professional network
15. Mylearningworx - crowd sourced hub for online learning covering everything from business skills to hobbies, lifestyle and leisure
16. XeeMee - a social presence management tool, helping you organize, grow and optimize yor social presence
17. Twitter - a real-time information network that connects you to the latest stories, ideas, opinions and news about what you find interesting
18. Oracle Social Network - a secure private network that provides a broad range of social tools designed to capture and preserve information flowing between people, enterprise applications, and business processes
19. IBM Connections - a social software platform that enables organizations to engage the right people, drive innovation, and deliver results
20. Tweetdeck - your personal browser for staying in touch with what's happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace ...
21. Facebook - a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them
22. Google+ - making sharing on the web more like sharing in real life
23. Sendgine - the missing link between email and project management
24. Basecamp - a web-based project management and collaboration tool
25. Bottlenoseapp - provides live social intelligence for marketers by analyzing activity across all the major social networks
26. Sproutsocial - a social media management tool created to help businesses find new customers & grow their social media presence
27. Socialbro - tool to manage and analyze your Twitter Community
28. Slideshare - an online slide hosting service
29. Yoono - is allows you to connect and share with all your social networks and instant messaging services in one place
30. Evernote - helps you remember and act upon ideas, projects and experiences across all the computers, phones and tablets you use
31. Springpad - a web app allowing users to save, organize, and share collected ideas and information
32. ManageFlitter - a web-based application that assists Twitter users with their unfollower and general account management
33. Commun.it - an online tool to manage your community, monitor engagement, track campaign and discover leads on Twitter
34. Pinterest - a content sharing service that allows members to "pin" images, videos and other objects to their pinboard
35. oneQube - a modular #cloud platform for the #social #enterprise
36. Klout - a tool that measures social influence across the web
37. Kred - a visual history of your Social Media Influence
38. Google+ Communities - an online community tool to talk about the stuff you’re into with people who love it too
39. TweetLevel - a Twitter measurement tool 
40. Storify - an online tool making sense of what people post on social media
41. Google Alerts - are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your queries
42. PeerIndex - an analytics tool measuring interactions across the web to help you understand your impact in social media
43. Awareness Social Marketing Hub - a tool letting serious marketing teams extend their brand messaging and campaigns to social networks
44. NutshellMail - tracks your brand's social media activity and delivers a summary to your email inbox on your schedule
45. Postling - a tool that makes it easy to manage all of your social media from a single interface
46. Tweetseeker - an advanced Twitter search tool designed with powerful filtering capabilities to remove less relevant or less-interesting Tweets
47. Topsy - a realtime search engine powered by the Social Web
48. Socialmention - a social media search engine that searches user-generated content 
49. Rapportive - shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox
50. Google Hangouts - a video chat service enabling both one-on-one chats and group chats with up to ten people at a time
51. Crowdbooster - offers social media analytics with suggestions and tools to help you improve your online presence
52. MarketMeSuite - a social media marketing dashboard that allows businesses and teams to manage their social media

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