Getting started is easy, just create a new Twitter account and input all of your chosen searches and trends. Once you have done that, follow that new account in your regular Twitter account. That’s it!

Features:

• Track twitter searches and trends in your Twitter account.
• Track as many subjects as you like.
• Easy to use and free.
• Similar tools: Twilert and TweetAlarm.

Check out TweetAlert @ www.code-or-die.com/tweetalert (by Dean Sherwin)

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• TweetAlarm: Get Custom Twitter Alerts Via Email
• TweetVolume: Compare Popularity of Words on Twitter
• Listiti: Email Alerts For Twitter Lists
• ConvoMonitor: Track Twitter Conversations
• byTagg: Get Alerts On New Search Results

To get started, first sign up on the site. Next add the keywords you want to track and you are all set. There is also an option to ignore tweets from users of your choice.

Features:

• Receive custom Twitter alerts via email.
• Track as many keywords as you like.
• Option to ignore tweets from users of your choice.
• Free and easy to use.
• Similar tools: Twilert.

Check out TweetAlarm @ www.tweetalarm.com

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• TweetAlert: Track Twitter Searches & Trends
• TweetVolume: Compare Popularity of Words on Twitter
• Listiti: Email Alerts For Twitter Lists
• ConvoMonitor: Track Twitter Conversations
• byTagg: Get Alerts On New Search Results

1. By phone – Call provided number and speak to record.
2. Text-to-speech – Enter your text and let the app convert it to audio.
3. via Mic – Use your computer microphone.
4. upload file – Upload an existing audio file.

When the audio is ready, AudioPal will send the link to your email address. Just follow that link to get the embed code for your site.

Features:

• Create embeddable audio greetings and alerts for your site or web profile.
• Create as many audio alerts as you like.
• Set your audio alert to auto-play on every page load or new visitor.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar tools: ProfileGreeting.

Check out AudioPal @ www.audiopal.com

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• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player
• ProfileGreeting: Add Audio Greetings to Your Webpage
• WagWire: Enable your Visitors to Leave you Audio Comments
• VisitorContact: Create Custom Contact Forms and Buttons
• SplashCast: Create Your Own Online TV Channels

Using basic account you can create unlimited surveys with up to 30 questions in each survey. Most of the other services restrict this to 10 questions. Zoomerang also allows you to send the survey to up to 100 people and view the results online in real-time. However, the most important feature is the variety of templates ranging from educational to business to personal templates. Each template comes with pre-filled questions that you can choose to keep, edit or delete.

Main features:

• Create and conduct unlimited number of surveys.
• Choose from over 15 types of questions.
• Choose up to 30 questions.
• Send out your survey to 100 people.
• Create your survey in one of the 40 languages.
• Collect responses via email or a website.
• Design survey from scratch or from the templates.
• Free online support and user forum to answer your questions.
• Similar website: KwikSurveys.

Check out Zoomerang @ www.zoomerang.com (by Tehseen from RechargeYourMind.com)

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• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software
• Quibblo: Create & Take Fun Quizzes And Surveys
• Poll Everywhere: Easily Create Live Polls and Track Them
• KwikSurveys: Quickly Make Online Surveys for Free
• dPolls: Free Polls for Blogs and Websites

Features:

• Tool for creating flyers online.
• Create as many flyers as you like.
• Add image and text.
• Customize border, color, font and layout.
• Print flyers, send to others via email, publish online by embedding on you site.
• Easy to use and free.

Check out Band-Flyers @ www.band-flyers.com

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• SimplyChecklists: Free Checklists for Everyday Life
• PrintableCheckList: Web Based Printable Checklist Maker
• MyBrochureMaker: Online Brochure and Flyer Maker
• ListaMania: Create And Print To Do Lists
• GroceryWiz: Create Grocery Shopping List

From the page: “if your business or organisation requires clients to print and fill-in PDF or Word forms and documents, Doculicious can simplify the form completion for your clients, and give you the tools to track and process completed forms.

Doculicious lets you create online PDF documents that have a web form you can embed on your website or co-brand and access from doculicious.com. When someone completes the web-based form, they receive the completed PDF download, and we store the entered data into your secure account.”

Everytime someone fills out one of these forms they are also able to download and save a printable PDF copy of all entered data. The form also securely stored on your Doculicious account for further processing.

You can either create your own form using provided online form builder or optionally customize and use one of the forms provided in the site’s template library.

Moreover, your Doculicious account also lets you easily process, track and manage all filled forms. Note that free account lets you create up to 20 embeddable PDF’s with only one being active at any given time.

Features:

• Provides you with fillable PDF forms that can be embedded onto your site.
• Customize forms from template library or create one yourself.
• Get alerts when someone completes your online form.
• Easily track, manage and process form entries.
• Export user entered data from your forms as PDF or CSV.
• Free account allows up to 20 PDF’s with only one being active at a time.
• Active forms are free up to 50 submissions per month.
• Premium account with more options also available.

Check out Doculicious @ www.doculicious.com

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• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software
• Wufoo
• SampleWords: Free Business Document Templates & Forms
• PDFVue: Tool For Editing PDF Files Online
• JotForm: Easy Form Creation Tool

Spy is a simple and sleek web application that allows you to search and monitor social media conversations across platforms like Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, Yahoo News, and even blog comments. The application searches for conversations by specified keyword and shows you results by social network and time. It even updates the results in real time.

Features:

• Social media conversation tracker.
• See who said what and where in real time.
• Get 10, 25, 50, 75 or 100 results.
• Click on the user to go directly to his profile.
• See trends for recent searches on Spy.
• Chose between a light and dark theme.
• Get updates through RSS feeds.
• Similar websites: ConvoMonitor and Twilert.

Check out Spy @ spy.appspot.com (Contributed by Tehseen Baweja from Ijaar.com)

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• SiteVolume: Keyword Popularity Check Tool for Digg, Youtube, Twitter, Flickr & MySpace
• ConvoMonitor: Track Twitter Conversations
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• TwitterGram: Automatically Post Flickr Photos to Twitter

Additionally to easy conversation tracking it also lets you bookmark dashboard instances you have found interesting and share with friends by forwarding a link. Check out examples of shared dashboards below.

What people are saying about Starbucks and Whole Foods

What people are saying right now about iphone and android

Features

• Additional conversation tracker dashboard for twitter.
• Track track twitter conversations about any topic, brand or person on twitter.
• Save and bookmark dashboard by adding searches.
• Send links of different dashboard instances to colleagues.

Check out Convomonitor @ www.convomonitor.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• TweetVolume: Compare Popularity of Words on Twitter
• TweetAlert: Track Twitter Searches & Trends
• TweetAlarm: Get Custom Twitter Alerts Via Email
• Spy: Monitor Social Media Conversations For Certain Topics
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage

You can also type in multiple search terms and compare them side by side. Very useful for those tracking certain events or if you would like to compare your popularity with someone else.

Features:

• Visually pleasing website with colorful graphs.
• Enter up to five search terms for a side by side popularity comparison.
• Search both single words and long phrases.
• Share your comparison chart by emailing a link.
• No sign up needed.

Compare Tweet popularity @ www.tweetvolume.com

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• TweetAlert: Track Twitter Searches & Trends
• TweetAlarm: Get Custom Twitter Alerts Via Email
• SiteVolume: Keyword Popularity Check Tool for Digg, Youtube, Twitter, Flickr & MySpace
• ConvoMonitor: Track Twitter Conversations
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage

Free MailChimp account lets you send newsletter to a list of upto 100 subscribers and a max. of 6 times per month. Works simple, just follow on-site step by step guide of creating newsletter campaigns, and distribute content to your subscribers.

Features:

• Generate and distribute newsletter online.
• Free account lets you send newsletter to a list of 100 subscribers upto 6 times per month.
• Create simple text campaigns or RSS feed campaigns.
• Get statistical reports for each campaign.
• Clear step by step interface that takes you through the whole process.
• Paid accounts with more options available as well.
• To learn more go to demo page.
• Also check out similar tool called Nouri.sh that was profiled earlier.

Check out MailChimp @ www.mailchimp.com

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• VerifiedPages: Protect Your Brand On the Web
• TweetVolume: Compare Popularity of Words on Twitter
• TweetAlert: Track Twitter Searches & Trends
• TweetAlarm: Get Custom Twitter Alerts Via Email
• SocialScan: Measure your Site’s Popularity on Social Media Sites

The popular social sites that SocialScan checks are Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Myweb, Technorati, Shadows, Bloglines, Simpy, Blinklist, Diigo and Furl. So if you ever want to find out how popular is your website on Digg or any of the other social websites that SocialScan supports then head over to SocialScan. No registration required.

The only problem I noticed with it is that it doesn’t pull any info from Reddit, Technorati and Shadows. As you can see in the screenshot above it shows that MakeUseOf has no links at the respective networks, which is obviously not the case. Other than that it’s a handy service. For some other services to measure your sites popularity check out this MUO article.

Visit SocialScan @ www.SocialScan.com

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• SocialMarker: Submit your Posts to Mutliple Social Bookmarking Sites
• AdGridWork : Free Web Advertising Network
• Xinu : Link Popularity Analyzer
• WhoIsTheOwner : Who is the Owner of the Website ?
• WhoIsHostingThis: Find Out Who Hosts your Favorite Websites

If you answered yes to both of the above questions then you have found yourself in the right place. Your friendly neighborhood Admin brings you Social Marker which aggregates all the best social sites together and tries to auto-populate the fields for your submissions. This adds consistency to your keywords and descriptions across the board and the search engines really like that. Lots of time is wasted every day entering and re-entering submission forms for your content

Seeing that you read Make Use Of I am sure you have tried various work-a-rounds like using Notepad to cut and paste (or something similar) But you couldn’t drag and drop that text into the right place and it still made it rather cumbersome. Social Marker helps you help yourself. Lets see how it works.

1. The first time you visit the site you should drag the little icon ( it looks like this –>) to your favorites. That way when you want to “Social Mark” something all you need to do is click that favorite.

2. Now enter your URL, title, description and keywords – be creative and original!

3. Next check off the boxes of the sites you want to submit to, hit enter and let the app do its magic. By magic I mean Social Marker will open up each of the sites you selected in a framed. The information you filled out follows you along and sometimes even auto-populates. When it doesn’t, as I said above, it allows you to select the text from the bottom of the page and drag it to the correct field.

This is really a huge time saver for me. I am helplessly addicted to these networks and have learned their ins and outs. All the sites included in SocialMarker allow your content to be submitted this way and does not violate any TOS. Some sites have been added and removed over the 6 months or so that I have been using it and it even introduced me to some new ones.

Check out SocialMarker @ www.socialmarker.com [ By Karl L. Gechlik from AskTheAdmin.com ]

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• SocialScan: Measure your Site’s Popularity on Social Media Sites
• ReadBag : Save Links to Read them Later
• PaperSpan: Save Webpages To Read Later
• PageSlider: Put Your Favorite Sites on a Single Page
• Only2Clicks: Favorite Websites on One Page

Feature List

• Create flayers, brochures with or without a mailing panel.
• Customize and style brochures using text, images and different themes such as medical, contractor, fitness, salon/spa, real estate, nature, travel, business, technology, child care etc.
• Style both in and out parts of the cards.
• Save ready brochures on MyBrochureMaker.com or print them our (printing guide included).
• For more specific details go to help page.

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Check out MyBrochureMaker @ [ www.mybrochuremaker.com ]

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• Band-Flyers: Create Printable Flyers
• WoW-Coupons : Search, Find and Print Free Coupons
• Wordle : Create Fancy “Word Clouds” from Text
• WebMarkers : Print Documents To Web
• VerifiedPages: Protect Your Brand On the Web

Feature Overview

• Choose between different ad blocks and text links. Ads are simple and appealing.
• Targeting: Option to define exactly what types of websites you want your website ad to appear on.
• Monitor ad activity: number of earned impression credits, received impressions, received clicks, etc.
• Check out real-time network activity viaadSpy.
• For additional info go to service FAQ page.

Check out AdGridWork @ www.adgridwork.com

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• Vozme: Online Text to Speech Converter
• SocialScan: Measure your Site’s Popularity on Social Media Sites
• SocialMarker: Submit your Posts to Mutliple Social Bookmarking Sites
• Sikbox: Live Search Box For Your Blog or Website
• Rotatee : Rotate Banners on your Website

BlogRush Fetaures

• Display widget on your website and earn headline views on the other similar blogs.
• Customize widget color to match your site’s theme.
• Over 40 categories to choose from: Computers, Education, Celebrity, Internet Marketing, Business, Humor, etc.
• Filter links in you widget by title keywords or URLs.
• Monitor widget stats: credits earned/used, received traffic, number of referrals, and more.
• Refer other bloggers to Blogrush network and earn referral ’syndication credits’
• Extremely fast to setup (takes less then 5 minutes).
• Works on any blog that allows javascript AND has an active RSS Feed.
• Note: At the moment BlogRush accpets only English blogs.
• More Questions? Check out videos demo below.

BlogRush Videos

BlogRush Demo Screencast

How To: Install BlogRush On Wordpress Blog

How To: Install BlogRush On Blogspot (Blogger) Blog

How To: Install BlogRush On A Drupal Blog

Go to www.blogrush.com

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• WidgetEasy : Add External RSS Feeds to your Blog
• TringMe: Get Voicemails From your Readers
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• TagCrowd: Tool For Generating Tag Clouds Online
• Sikbox: Live Search Box For Your Blog or Website

How it works?: You simply request a contact you need and if it exists in their database you get contact’s details including name, title, email and the phone number. In return for each contact you’re required to give 5 Jigsaw points. You can either buy points at $0.20 for 1 point or get 10 points each time you submit a new or correct existing contact. Upon completing your registration for the first time you’ll be awarded 50 points.

Features

• Get information on any company and list of it’s employees. ? ()
• Browse companies by states, major cities, by industry, by alphabet, and more
• Browse contacts by alphabet or use Search option

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