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Great discussions among social media enthusiasts usually yield a wealth of knowledge about the different tools used in social media to meet different objectives. This page is a repository for tools that come up in disucssions during chapter meetings and speaking events for your reference, and some that are already popular and well-used.

To add a tool, please include a name, link and brief description of the tool.

Twitter - microblog (free)

TweetDeck -  Twitter updater and monitoring tool, manages multiple accounts (free)

Screenr - Screencasting for Twitter

Hootsuite - Twitter updater and monitoring tool, manages multiple accounts (free)

Ping.fm - updates all social networks at once (free)

Facebook - social network (free)

TweetBeep - monitoring (free)

Google Caffeine - search engine (links to article) (free)

bing - Microsoft's new search engine (free)

HubSpot - Inbound marketing system for small business (includes tracking component) (for fee)

Tweetstats - monitoring (free)

PitchEngine - distributes social media releases, customized newsroom (free to fee depending on service you choose)

SocialMention.com - searches the "universe" for mentions based on your serach terms (free)