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Social Media Tools for Fighting Crime [by Derek
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ORM Search / Monitoring Tools

Backtype (backtype.com)

Boardtracker.com (boardtracker.com)

Comments (co.mments.com)

Google Alerts (google.com/alerts)

Google Blog Search (blogsearch.google.com)

Keotag (keotag.com)

Moreover (moreover.com/rss)

Social Mention (socialmention.com)

Steprep (steprep.com)

Trackur (trackur.com)

Versionista (versionista.com)

Yacktrack (yacktrack.com)

Yahoo Answers (answers.yahoo.com)

Resources | Other:

Bit.ly (http://www.bit.ly/)
URL-shortening services that allow you to crunch web addresses so
they can be posted in areas with limited space (like SMS messages
and Twitter)

Bulk Rename Utility (bulkrenameutility.co.uk/) A tool that allows you
to rename large quantities of files at once.

Check Usernames (checkusernames.com) allows you to search dozens
of social media platforms to see if a particular username is in
use already (so you can plan before committing to one)

Cotweet (cotweet.com)
service that allows multiple users to contribute to a single
Twitter account

Digsby (digsby.com) a tool
for managing multiple social media presences through one
interface.

Exif Watermark Tool (visualwatermark.com/) a tool that allows you to
resize and add watermarks to large quantities of images
automatically.

Facebook
Advertising Quick Reference Guide - Explains the
features/options for advertising with Facebook.

Hootsuite (hootsuite.com) a
tool for managing multiple social media presences through one
interface.

Pew Research Center's Internet
& American Life Project (pewinternet.org/) solid research on the emerging
impact of technology on society.

Pitchengine (pitchengine.com) free social media press release
service; allows one to create a centralized location for all
information about a story that is also formatted in discrete
chunks so that it's easily syndicated via social media

Social Media
Governance (socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php) site that
collects and links to over 100 social media policies by respected
institutions in various industries.

Socialtarget “Guide to Social
Media Analysis” (socialtarget.com/research/): comprehensive
profile of online reputation management providers.

TSR Watermark Utility (watermark-image.com) a tool that allows you to
resize and add watermarks (including images like logos) en masse
to large quantities of images automatically.

Tweetdeck (tweetdeck.com)
an application for managing multiple social media profiles in one
place; allows for using Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Foursquare,
Linkedin and others. Also allows for scheduling posts, automatic
shortening, and a variety of other features. Available as a
Desktop client, iPad, iPod, and Android.

Tweetgrid (tweetgrid.com)
allows one to follow multiple Twitter searches in frames on a
single screen

Websmart TV (websmart.tv)
explains web / tech concepts briefly and succinctly in 1 minute
videos

Wikipedia List of Social
Networking Sites (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites).

Resources |
Twitter:

Twitter Analytics Tools (for better
understanding the use of Twitter – bear in mind that their analysis
can be dodgy depending on how much of a user's history of tweets
they're able to access at the time)

Klout (klout.com): a tool that provides
comprehensive analysis about a user using a variety of
metrics.

Trendistic (trendistic.com): a tool that
organizes and graphs tweets over time (though the time frame is
limited).

Trendrr (trendrr.com): a service (fee-based
after 16 profiles) that tracks and analyzes and graphs a variety
of search tools (news sites like Google News, blog sites like
IceRocket and Google BlogSearch, and other sites like Flickr,
YouTube and Ebay).

TweetPsych (tweetpsych.com): builds a
profile of a particular Twitterer based on the content in their
Twitter feed.   (Also has a companion tool for
websites:  tweetpsych.com/site.php ).

TweetStats (tweetstats.com): graphs stats
about a given Twitter account such as tweets over time, what
interface was used to post the tweets, and who a user most
commonly replied to.

TweetStream (tweetstreamapp.com): this
service provides very limited analytics (basically a series of
counts) – however it also allows you to automatically archive all
of your tweets from a variety of Twitter profiles (and it gives
you combined stats for your multiple profiles) .  It's also a
low-cost annual service.

Twends (twendz.waggeneredstrom.com/):
A tool that not only tracks mentions of a particular keyword over
time, but graphs and analyzes that data a variety of ways
(including by using an algorithm to guess at whether or not
mentions are positive or negative).

Twitaholic (twitaholic.com): a tool that
counts a user's tweets and ranks them in comparison to other
users.

Twitalyzer (twitalyzer.com): an interesting
analytical tool that uses a different set of categories to analyze
a Twitterer's presence.  They include influence (a composite
that includes # of followers), signal (how much of your tweets are
info vs. anecdote), generosity (how much you retweet), velocity
(how frequently you post) and clout (how often people cite your
posts).

Twitority (twitority.com): Ranks Twitter
users by authority on terms/keywords.

Twitter
Charts (xefer.com/twitter/): an aggregator that uses
Yahoo Pipes to create an interesting visual display of a specified
Twitterer's posts over time.

Twitter
Counter (twittercounter.com): a tool that provides
comprehensive analytics as well as a few other features that
grease the skids for you to promote yourself and find others to
follow.

Twitter
Grader (twitter.grader.com): applies an algorithm to rate
how influential a particular Twitterer is based on factors like
their number of tweets, how recently they've posted, and how many
followers they have (and how powerful those followers
are).

Xefer (xefer.com/twitter/): Maps the days of
the week and times of the day that a user tweets, in addition to
listing/ranking the other users that person has contact
with.

Twitter Follower Management (for
visualizing/managing relationships)

FollowCost (followcost.com): a great tool
that shows you a comparison how how much it “costs” you to follow
a particular person (ie what their proportion of tweets is to
yours) .  Warning – doesn't always work.

Friend or
Follow (friendorfollow.com): a way to find out who you
follow that doesn't follow you back (I hesitate to post this – the
whole idea that one should follow a follower as a courtesy gesture
is idiotic) .

Qwitter (useqwitter.com): primarily used for
monitoring who unfollows you on Twitter, but also provides
analytics data and alerts you to spambots/users.

UnTweeps (untweeps.com): allows you to
organize all of the people you follow by their last tweet so you
can unfollow the dead accounts or people who don't regularly use
Twitter (which, ostensibly, would improve your ‘influence'
ranking).

Twitter Clients (software/apps for More
Effectively Using Twitter – you don't have to take my word for it
though; Mashable did a great comparison of 19 of these tools
here )

CoTweet (cotweet.com): CoTweet actually
offers a variety of services, but for Twitter they provide the
ability to have multiple users manage a single Twitter account
(including a workflow process for people to respond to messages
that have been assigned to them).

Destroy
Twitter (destroytwitter.com): A simple, stripped-down
Twitter client for your desktop.  It gets the job done in a
clean interface, but it has some limitations (the navigation is a
bit clunky, and you can't be logged into multiple accounts
simultaneously and toggle between them).

Digby (digby.com): Like TweetDeck and
Hootsuite, Digby lets you manage not only Twitter, but many other
social media presences as well.  There have been security
concerns raised about it in the past, but it doesn't appear to be
impeding its use/adoption. This service also allows you to
syndicate a single message to a variety of social media platforms
with one click.

Echofon (echofon.com): formerly Twitterfon
and Twitterfox, this is a superb client that is available as an
app for smartphones, or as an add-on for Firefox.  I use it
every day.  Literally.

GroupTweet (grouptweet.com):  clever
utility that allows a group of people to communicate in private by
syndicating Direct Messages that are only visible to specified
users.

Hootsuite (hootsuite.com): A
web-based application that allows you to manage multiple social
media presences (including Twitter).  It allows for things
like scheduling, tracking, etc.  I have had trouble with
Hootsuite screwing up scheduled posts before – so fair warning.
This service also allows you to syndicate a single message
to a variety of social media platforms with one click.

TweetDeck (tweetdeck.com): the
grand-daddy of all Twitter clients, Tweetdeck has a rich feature
set and allows you to manage multiple social media platforms in
one interface.  It can also be a bit overwhelming –
especially if you're doing something simple.  It allows for
scheduling, tracking, etc.  This service also allows you to
syndicate a single message to a variety of social media platforms
with one click.

TweetGrid (tweetgrid.com) a browser-based
client that allows you to display a variety of Twitter streams on
a single page (in grid form).

TwitToaster (twitoaster.com): a service that
aggregates tweets that are all part of a single conversation
(nesting them visually like a discussion board) as well as
providing statistical analysis.

UberTwitter (ubertwitter.com): by far the
best Twitter client for Blackberry phones.  Rich feature set,
easy navigation, lots of customization, and it's very inexpensive
– only $5/year.

Twitter Search Tools (for mining
information):

Monitter (monitter.com): a Twitter search
tool that provides an interface for managing multiple
searches.

TweetAlarm (tweetalarm.com): search tool
that alerts you when keywords are tweeted – allows real-time
updates (however I've had problems with it missing a lot of tweets
and not consistently notifying me) .

TweetBeep (tweetbeep.com): a search tool
that will alert you when keywords are tweeted (limited in that it
doesn't allow real-time notifications – only once per day)
.

TweetMeme (tweetmeme.com): tracks, sorts and
organizes mentions of a particular keyword (limited to the past
week).

ViralHeat (viralheat.com): a fee-based
service that searches for, tracks and graphs keyword mentions
about a particular keyword or username.

Twitter Directories / Indexes: (for finding
like-minded people and promoting yourself)

Just Tweet
It (justtweetit.com): a directory of Tweeters sorted by
category.

Twellow (twellow.com): a yellow pages
directory of Twitterers.

TwitterCounter (twittercounter.com):
provides a count of your followers, and also serves as a
directory for listing oneself by
keywords/categories.

Twitter
Chat Schedule : a fantastic use of the cloud; it's a
Google Docs spreadsheet with detailed information about over 300
different Twitter chats going on (for the uninitiated, you
participate in a Twitter chat by following a particular
moderator  and responding/watching a hashtag which allows
you to see and be seen by everyone else following the chat) .
There's also a profile on Twitter that tracks and tweets
about upcoming chats @ChatSchedule – but their list isn't
nearly as comprehensive as the Twitter Chat
Schedule.

WeFollow (mashable.com/tag/wefollow/): a
directory of Twitterers; probably one of the most popular.
It also provides some level of analytics in that it
compares you to people in other categories by two metrics –
sheer number of followers and influence.

Recommended
Reading for Keeping up on Social Media

BoingBoing (boingboing.com)

Buzzmachine (buzzmachine.com)

Clay Shirky's Internet
Writings (shirky.com)

Collision Detection (www.collisiondetection.net/)

Gizmodo (gizmodo.com)

Groundswell Blog (forrester.typepad.com/groundswell/)

Mashable (mashable.com)

Lifehacker : (lifehacker.com)

Pew Research – Internet &
Technology (pewresearch.org)

ReadWriteWeb (readwriteweb.com)

Slashdot : (slashdot.org)

Smartbrief on Social
Media (smartbrief.com)

The Social Media Guide (thesocialmediaguide.com)

Trendwatching (trendwatching.com)

Wired Magazine : (wired.com)

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