Different kind of Social Media Tools: How does it work and How it helps us

News.me
-News.me is a small team based out of betaworks in New York City.
We build applications that improve the way people find and talk about the news.

How does it work?
News.me analyzes the links shared by your friends, and the links shared by
your friends’ friends, on both Twitter and Facebook,
then presents those links in a beautiful, news-friendly
reading experience on iPhone and iPad. it directly connects news feeds from your
social media account inbox.

Feedly
-Feedly is a news aggregator application for various web browsers
and mobile devices running iOS and Android, also available as a cloud-based service.
It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize a
nd share with others. Feedly was first released by DevHD in 2008.

How does it work?
There is an extension available for numerous web browsers including Google Chrome
and Mozilla Firefox. Feedly integrates into the web browser, appearing as a
clickable icon that redirects the user to their Feedly Page, where all of the
news feeds are found. The browser extension touts a minimalistic, yet customizable
interface that is stylized as an actual magazine. The user can also customize
the content aggregated by Feedly to include their own personal preference of RSS feeds.
The interface itself can be altered based on layout, colour, and categorization
of articles based on sources, likes, and those referred to by other users. Any article
can then be shared using E-mail, Facebook, Google+, Tumblr, Twitter,
and a variety of other services. As of June 19, 2013,
“Feedly Cloud” negated the requirement for a web browser extension, allowing all
browsers to access the site.
Paper.li
-Paper.li is a content curation service that let’s you turn socially shared
content into beautiful online newspapers and newsletters.
But more than that it’s an easy to use, powerful tool that helps
you save time by surfacing content (blogs, articles, sites, video,images)
and people who are interested in the same topics that you are.

How does it work?
You tell what what type of content or topics you would like
monitor and round it up daily, or weekly, and present it
in the form of an online newspaper. Then the app paper.li will send out email alerts,
tweets and social posts on your behlaf letting your community know when the
latest edition of fresh content is online. Paper.li saves your time and
makes it more hassle free from manually scouring the web to find the content
you’re looking for and deliver it to you automatically, daily or weekly.
Swayy
-Swayy lets you easily share the best content your audience wants to consume
based on their engagements, interests, and reaction. By curating a variety of news,
blogs, videos, infographics and more.
Swayy makes the task of sharing content easy, quick and efficient.

How does it work?
Swayy provides customisable options to suit a variety of different needs.
When signing up for the service, users have the opportunity to choose topics that are relevant
to them in order to get the most helpful analytics information.
Swayy helps provide users with the best information on current trends on social networking sites.
This content can then be instantly shared on a variety of social media interfaces.
Swayy also analyses your followers, likes, shares, and can tell you what type of content has been
the most popular in the past. This bit of the website can help you plan your future social media strategy.
In fact, Swayy currently targets three different social media sites: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

PinAlerts by Pinterest
Do you want to guest post on a popular blog?
Or do you want to know what products are a hit on your competitor’s site?
Set up a PinAlert and you’ll be able to see exactly what’s a hit. Products or
posts that are pinned repeatedly will give you an idea of what will work with a similar
audience or help you pitch a post that’s targeted.
How does it work
-In just seconds you can be notified whenever someone pins something that is from your website.
By knowing who has pinned your web site content you can tell them thank you and let them know when you have new content.
You can set PinAlerts to email you the moment your receive repins, once a day, or once a week.
By receiving pin alerts you can quickly discover those who are interested in your content and invite them to follow your other pin boards.
Add alerts for as many domains as you would like to follow. You can even follow your competition and see how often they are getting repins

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