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Ask The Experts Digital Toolbox
Sponsored by Colleague Software and Tru Europe’. Contributions from Louis Welcomme and Bill Boorman
The internet is full of useful free tools that can assist you with your digital strategy.
Here, in the ATE toolbox, we will provide you with a short description for any useful tools that we come across, along with links to their registration pages.
We will be continously adding new tools to this section and will welcome any of your own recommendations that we can share with our members.
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JobGram - 'Send visually engaging job opportunity straight to the people' |
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'Jobgraphics' |
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'Create short, beautiful, looping videos.' |
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Social Recruiting Referral Tool. |
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(Internet Explorer add-on) - Recruiter search tool for Internet Explorer and page parser. |
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'IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement, if this then that.' |
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'Crowdbooster offers social media analytics with suggestions and tools to help you improve your online presence.' |
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'Customer Engagement Bar and Analytics with Each Shared Link.' |
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'With SocialBro you can manage and analyze your Twitter Community.' |
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In Google+ you can add candidates and clients to focused ‘circles’ to create groups which you can then target with specific content and messages. You can also target specific individuals. ' Read the review here |
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'Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.), based on your queries |
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Bottlenose provides 'live social intelligence' and analytics for marketers. But it could be just as useful for recruiters - enabling you to easily monitor and analyse the popular online content and influencers in your market. Read the Review here |
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'Offers to tweet the last posts published in a blog via the RSS feed.' |
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(Chrome Add-on) - 'Rich contact details within your browser.' |
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'Rich contact profiles right inside gmail.' |
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'With the all-new Outlook Social Connector, you can expand your social networks and stay up to date without leaving Outlook.' |
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(Apple app) - 'Quickly and easily look up professional and social information about friends, colleagues, and business contacts with this intuitive people search engine.' |
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Real-time social media search and analysis. |
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(Chrome add-on) - 'Quickly and easily assign Tweets and Facebook messages to team members within your organization by using Assignments (by HootSuite).' |
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'Engage, Publish & Analyze' |
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'Easily add great articles, pictures and videos to your Buffer and we automatically share them for you through the day.' |
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-'Discover your connections while you browse the web.' |
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-'Instagram client online: Great web viewer, social analytics, tools for contests & brand community management.' |
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Another Instagram web viewer. |
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Search over LinkedIn updates. |
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'Get an email alert whenever any of your LinkedIn connections gets a new job, leaves their current one, or gets promoted. |
| Browsers |
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Popular web browser Mozilla Firefox provides stablity and plenty of addon''s for navigating the web |
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Popular web browser Google Chrome provides stablity and plenty of addon''s for navigating the web |
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Popular web browser Internet Explorer provides stablity and plenty of addon''s for navigating the web |
| Online Surveys |
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QuickSurveys is a self-serve market research tool that delivers high-quality, actionable insights. Whether you want to poll your existing users or need to survey your untapped market, QuickSurveys can get you the answers you need in real-time, at a fraction of the cost of other solutions. |
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A wiki is a database of pages which visitors can edit live. The building blocks of wikis are the "comments" from visitors. |
| Discount Codes |
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Free Voucher Codes and Exclusive Discounts... |
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A great location based, discount app for your smart phone |
| Downloadable Programs |
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BSR Screen Recorder is a handy piece of software for recording the content of your desktop screen. Very useful for making tutorials or demonstrating software. |
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GIMP is a free open source graphics program, very useful for creating and editing images. Includes all the tools expected from expensive graphics programs! |
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All the power of map websites on your desktop, useful for finding directions, identifying locations and keeping up to date with new road systems! |
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A powerful piece of software that can allows you, or a friend to connect to a specific PC and solve problems that the PC''s user cannot. |
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Improving zip folders with more options and abilities, a vital program for growing internet technologies. |
| Security |
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The Last password you''ll have to remembr. The Last pass manager will rememebr all your passwords, saving them securely in this fully encrypted service. |
| SEO |
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Use this keyword tool to get a better understanding of what keywords and phrases are being searched for in search engines. |
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Broken links are bad, it''s no secret. All they'll do is drive your visitors away and cause your search ranking to plummit. Why not stay up to date with your links by using the |
| Valid Link Checker tool |
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Have you optimised your page content for the keywords that you want to be found for? |
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How does your site stack up to your competitors? |
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Find out why competitors outrank you. Uncover simple mistakes on your website, then fix them! Build quality links with ease. |
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If you're looking for a tool that really digs deep into the finest of details regarding your websites' SEO, then try using screaming frog. This tools allows you to break a page down, providing data in tabs, even allowing you to import the data into an Excel document. |
| Toolbars |
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Download our toolbar with loads of unique features and then customise it with a choice of over1 million apps from the Conduit apps store |
| Translators |
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Bing Translator - a useful translator provided by Microsoft search engine Bing |
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Google Translator - a useful translator provided by search engine Google |
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WorldLingo - a translator offering both computer and profession translations. |
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Monitor keywords, manage multiple Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Ping.fm and WordPress profiles |
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Find out what the world is talking about on Twitter |
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personal browser for staying in touch with what''s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace |
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A search directory of people by area of expertise, profession or other attribute listed in personal profiles on Twitter |
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Meet THE Ferrari of Twitter Friend Adder and Promotion Software!...BUY NOW |
| URLs |
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Shorten any URL with this tool. Ideal for email campaign and Twitter conversations |
| Video's |
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Simple to install and use, multi functional video player. |
| Web |
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Get flash applications for your site -from games to drawing tools |
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Extensive tutorials and thousands of references makes this site one of the best for learning web languages. |
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Build Websites and blog sites with the industry's leading Opensource technology |
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