BetaKnut has been testing the social media monitoring application, POSTLING. This is a great tool for small businesses to manage their brands and monitor their social media presence. Across the social network eco system they include Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Wordpress and even Yelp to name a few.

3 Reasons Postling Is Great For Small Business

1) One Stop To Manage Your Brand and Engage

In today’s digital world of business just running a flat website is not the best option to gain new business. Simply setting up a blog and telling your current or potential customer is not enough to keep an attention span. If a small business has a Facebook Page and a Twitter account but offers no useful information and only pitches of “Buy This” or “We have new X product” clients/customers will actually lose interest and possibly move on to the brands that are engaging their social minds. Postling offers the small business the means to add their various sites, look into the Twitter conversations, the Facebook fan posts and even interact from within the site. Why not have one place to jump right into the heart of your business and see how you can offer something different or spectacular for your niche? Stay connected.

2) Manage One Brand Or Manage Several From One Location

You have the option to upgrade your account and manage several brands at a time. If you are a small business owner running photography, web design and a WordPress consultant (each with different business names, You could use Postling to manage all those social sites for your brands under one dashboard.

3) Email Of your Brand’s Performance

Postling will send out an email that contains tweets, Facebook content and other social network messages relevant to the brands you are managing. What can you do with this data? You can check the email and get a quick overview of who is engaging your brand on Twitter, what mentions you are receiving or what fans are posting on your Facebook Page. This can be extremely useful when you are on the go and reading from your mobile device. As a small business owner you could immediately respond or know that you have a new potential client to serve and get your positive pitch ready to go.

Website: www.Postling.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/postlingdotcom

Twitter: @Postling

There are several social media dashboard tools to help a business monitor their brand(s). Try Postling and see how it fares for your needs. What other tools do you use to run your small business and manage social media?

New Twitter client in alpha/beta stage! Blogger of Juxie TechKnow has taken on the Twitter API and uses javascript via Google Gears and jQuery and aims to jump in the ring to manage multiple accounts. Check out the blog post for Tweetbox. You can follow @techknow on Twitter.

Let the testing begin! Screenshots to come in a future blog post on BetaKnut!

Upcoming blog post on Splitweet and HootSuite.

Mozilla has opened the flood gates for testing Firefox 3.1 Beta 3! It was great finding out about it via Twitter (@mozillafirefox and @firefoxbeta). Its Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Test day so I’m off to run those tests and hope to get it up before the time ends! Check out the following sites for info:

Mozilla Developer Center

QMO - The Mozilla QA

A new way to do business cards is using the mobile application DubMeNow. You can hand out your business card in the traditional way or you can think green and go paperless. The idea behind DubMeNow is to collect and immediately use your information on the go and always in sync. If you are at a meeting, social gathering, conference or any event you can use your mobile phone to make contact with a new person by entering the information in your mobile phone. This keeps the moment social and provides immediate follow-up because an email is sent to the individual requesting them to join you on DubMeNow, which also provides a way to contact you in the near future.

The latest release of DubMeNow, version 1.06, also adds some new features that are attractive to the social media savvy where you can send out a message to microblogging service Twitter when you have received your contact’s information. This may be a genius way to promote that you both use the application and have others interested in sharing with you for business. The mobile application is now available on all mobile phones including the iPhone and Blackberry. The iPhone version has been added to the iPhone application store and is ready for immediate download! Another great business use is for CRM applications such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SugarCRM and Seibel. A few upcoming integrations include Linkedin which DubMeNow has partnered with, as well as, Google, Microsoft, and RIM.

So what are you waiting for, go DubMeNow!

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