What social media tools can be used to distribute messages to consumers and clients?

What are some of the best social media tools out on the market? What tools should you be using to distribute your messages and communication to your target market?

 

  • ObjectiveMarketer
  • SocialOomph
  • MarketMeTweet
  • HootSuite
  • TweetDeck
  • Ping.fm

Objectvie Marketer

A centralized campaign management system for Social Marketing. ObjectiveMarketer is a centralized marketing platform that helps you to manage and grow your business on social media. With ObjectiveMarketer, we help you seamlessly and as effectively, extend your traditional marketing to Social Media Channels. Powered with functionality that helps you be operationally efficient with your social media efforts, along with analytics and insights that justify your returns, ObjectiveMarketer Platform ensures you a sustainable success.

 

  • Campaigns
  • Scheduling of updates
  • Multiple social channels
  • Engagement reports
  • User management

SocialOomph

SocialOomph allows you to manage your Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and even Ping.fm accounts. There is a free version that is rather robust and the professional version contains just about every management feature you could look for in small scale social media engagement.

 

  • Scheduled Updates
  • track keywords
  • Drafts
  • Twitter, Facebook, Buzz
  • Unlimited Accounts
  • StatusNet Limits
  • Account Delegation

HootSuite

Save your time and save your sanity. Manage multiple social networks through one client: HootSuite! Have a company or organization with more than one contributor? HootSuite makes it easy to manage multiple users over various social network accounts. Impress your friends, your boss or just yourself with our improved visualizations link statistics. Graphs show not only a summary but also individual message statistics.

 

  • Multiple networks
  • Statistics
  • Mutl-stream view
  • manage followers
  • WordPress integration
  • Tabbed Layout
  • Scheduling and Custom URLs

TweetDeck

TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and more. With TweetDeck anyone can tweet like a Pro. Customise your Twitter experience with columns, groups, saved searches and automatic updates helping you to effortlessly stay updated with the people and topics you care about. See what people are saying about you and join the conversation by tweeting, sharing photos, videos or links directly from TweetDeck. We like to think of it as air traffic control for Twitter.

 

  • Multiple acccounts
  • Scheduling
  • Multi-column
  • keyword searches
  • Easy account management
  • Twitter lists
  • Preview short URLs

Ping.fm

Post from Anywhere to Anywhere. Post to all of your favorite services! Ping.fm is a simple and FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap!

 

  • Tons of accounts
  • Schedule of updates
  • Multiple accounts
  • Blogs, social networks, and other social sites
  • Must to keep in check with all networks