Social media kitbag

I have just signed up and put up a test post from my iPad and I was impressed. It's fairly intuitive and fast. I needed to log on from my computer to do some fine edits to the site's look and feel, and I have still not figured everything out, but my first impressions are good.

Not sure how and why I would use it, but I will keep testing it. It links to social networks as expected.

From the site: "Jux is the ultimate place to share your photos, videos, words and more. It's like the IMAX of blogs. 100% immersive content."

Another free tool for collecting data, organising and displaying it, then sharing and embedding.

From the site: "Junar is a platform that allows users to track and search for data all around the internet in one place. Go to www.junar.com and give it a try, its for free. Change they way you search, track and use data forever."

From the site: "Use ZeeMaps to create,
make, and publish interactive, customized maps.
Make a map of places you have visited, your customers, friends, or relatives."

Group/as is a site to help share groups of interesting people to add to your circles on Google+. Explore existing groups and add people to them, or simply create your own.

Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network. From the site "Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community"

Has similarities to Goozy but also enables you to capture and store webpages in the cloud, so if they disappear you still have a record.

Also, you can add notes to those pages and highlight them as well as sharing. Looks neat.

Have signed up and will test. Please add thoughts, experiences below.

Another curation tool. KBucket creates pages with links and descriptions. Suggested by @KBucketeer in a post on Media Helping Media. 

From the site: "KBucket is a user indexed search site. A place where experts “content curators” organize, comment, tag and publish their research. All KBucket pages are organized in multiple related lists of links."

I have yet to try this. Please add any experiences below.

I wonder whether this could ever come in useful for court artists who need to sketch, upload, share and embed?  Perhaps not, but adding it to the Social Media Kitbag For Journalists just in case anyone can think of a use. Even if not, it's great fun.

From the site: "Odosketch is a flash drawing application created by Odopod, a digital agency in San Francisco. Create sketches, watch sketches replay, or simply view recent and our favorite featured illustrations."

If you like Storify and Storyful you might want to try slidestaxx which is another social media asset aggregator. Also free. 

Put the internet to work for you....

A great way to link your social media and online activity for sending reminders, logging, and information dissemination.  Trying it out myself and impressed with the tasks, triggers and actions.

This could be a useful tool for journalists and media managers to understand changing audience behaviour and respond accordingly.  Many are writing about this as a marketing tool, but I see it of value to those producing content, too.

Not really a social media tool for journalists, but a useful free (with limitations) product for creating newsletters.

I have added it following a request to Media Helping Media from a journalist in Africa for advice on newsletters and templates, so I figured others might value knowing that this exists.

I have just signed up for the Guardian's n0tice (the 0 is a zero) - it's free. It's a community noticeboard for news and events and I saw it demonstrated by the Guardian's Sarah Hartley @foodiesarah at the MediaFabric event in Prague last week.

First impressions are that it could be useful. It allows readers to rate articles and say whether they are important or trivial etc.  My first post was extremely trivial. I've added a few events, too.

At I write (27 Oct 2011) it's beta invite only - but mine arrived really fast.  Give it a try.

From the site: "Livefyre is changing the way people interact with publisher content. Designed for the social web, Livefyre replaces static comment sections with dynamic, real-time conversations that empower users and help build hyper-active communities."

Looks a bit like Flipboard when used on the iPad.

From the site: HeyStaks is the new one-stop mobile social search solution, combining the best community and search engine recommendations to get you more personalized and relevant results, fast.

From the site: Truthy is a system to analyze and visualize the diffusion of information on Twitter. The Truthy system evaluates thousands of tweets an hour to identify new and emerging bursts of activity around memes of various flavors. The data and statistics provided by Truthy are designed to aid in the study of social epidemics: How do memes propagate through the Twittersphere? What causes a burst of popularity?

WhoTweetedMe.com will analyze a URL and show you its most influential retweeters, potential reach and timeline. Due to Twitter API limitations, It works best on blog post URLs that are between 1 day and 2 weeks old.

This could be useful for UK business journalists or any journalists covering UK business stories.   I've just signed up and had a play. It's fast and has a neat interface.

From the site:  "The best way to search for Companies House information, Directors Search, Companies House UK, and Company Credit Check."

I am testing this, but still can't figure out the instructions for embedding. They need to be simplified. However the interface is clean and simple and it looks a useful tool. 

From the site: "That's up to you, actually. People are using it to liveblog conferences, press releases, awards ceremonies, sports, wars and disasters; even as a public address system for teachers and a website status board. What will you do with it?"