You can read the full blogpost here: http://blog.mention.net/my-top-3-social-media-tools As mention's Community Manager, I go over three of the tools I use to find and share great content with our community: tumblr, bitly, and Buffer. Mixing these services and tracking the results with mention is a great way of engaging with users and finding that perfect social media "voice" that just works, no matter when you're posting.

1. Tumblr, bitly, Buffer:
3 tools for social media magic

2. 1) Tumblr
Yes, tumblr.
You mean the one full of food porn and well, just porn, only kids and hipsters use?
The one that Yahoo! - Yahoo!? - just
bought?

3. Yup.
And tumblr's where the
content's happening right now.

4. Happening =
Created, shared, modified,
recontextualized, made into a gif,
mashed up with another gif, then
shared, modified, and
recontextualized all over again.

5. I love the sense of space and humor
that the platform has:
Gifs like these take advantage of tumblr's
creative community and iconic feed UI

6. ‘Tumblrspace’
6

7. The tumblr feed is a creative testing ground. You can tell
narratives and bring a sense of context to otherwise disorganized
content from other networks:

8. There’s a reason why Yahoo bought it.
Tumblr's where community is finding voice right
now – hence, where Yahoo wants to put its ads.

9. A few of my all-time favorite
CM-related tumblrs:
How Do I Put This Gently?
What Should We Call Social Media
Running a Startup
Twitter: The Comic

10. Now it’s time to share some of this tumblr
gold, which brings me to…
2) bitly

11. Bitly is one of those
services where your first
reaction is like:
And your
second
reaction
is: woah, wait,
what…it’s
free?!

12. - Like us, they have an insanely robust free plan
- Their statistics are great, but for me, it’s about the innovative way
you can organize and share links
- Bitly has hints of an emergent social network, letting you bundle
stacks, discover content from your network, and see who else has
shared the same links

13. This is a great way
to contact and
create relationships
with influencers
interested in the
same things. We’ve
often found great
advocates for our
service based on
the “Who Shared a
bitly Link to This
Content” section.

14. And last but not least,the magic of...
3) Buffer

15. mention’s based in Paris, not a bad place to
spend your weekends not worrying about
posting to social networks.

16. - They've got a great Chrome extension
- Quick and easy
stats (love those
follow buttons too)
-But it's all about
scheduling posts to
go exactly at the
right time...

17. From the Buffer blog:
Buffer is all about the weekend.

18. Pro tip: one of
my favorite ways
of discovering and
directly sharing
new content is
through Y
Combinator's
Hacker News via
Buffer.

19. Have any other tools you use every day?
Let us know how you combine services and use
mention to track the results.
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