Following the fab feedback from fellow tweeters and blog followers from my last post I wanted to share some further listening and posting devices from top Vistage speaker Grant Leboff.

As the social media bandwagon gains momentum, it is powerful to see the bottom line benefits that businesses are enjoying through either managing their own blogs or commissioning PR agencies to manage them on their behalf.

And remember that when using Twitter, Linkedin don’t forget the importance of video to boost your ranking.

Posting devices

• Youtube.com – You can have a dedicated YouTube channel, optimize it and lead back to the rest of your site content.
• tubemogul.com – A free service that provides a single point for deploying uploads to the top video sharing sites. Also gives powerful analytics on who, what and how videos are being viewed.
• brighttalk.com – Easy way to have your own webcasting channel.
• squidoo.com – Share useful content with others.
• en.gravatar.com – Allows your web presence to be more consistent buy using the same name and photo wherever you post.
  ping.fm – Allows you to submit a status update and have it appear on around 30 social networking sites.
  friendfeed.com – Submit your social networking accounts and it will stream them into one feed that people can subscribe to or that you can push out to Facebook and other networks. People will get a better sense of everything you’re doing using FriendFeed and it will save you time from re-creating the same content.
• prnewswire.co.uk – Feeds your news story to thousands of relevant sites.
• blogtalkradio.com – Create your own podcasts/radio shows.
• ustream.tv – Broadcast live on the web for free with your own TV channel.
• audioboo.fm – Audio blogging.Listening devices – more sophisticated software suites
• jivesoftware.com – Jive Market Engagement combines buzz monitoring software with Social Business Software to enable companies to implement an effective social media strategy.
• trackur.com – Online reputation monitoring and social media monitoring tools.
• buzzstream.com – A tool for building effective relationships online.
• trendrr.com – Lets you follow trends, automating and tracking social and digital media.
• socialoomph.com – Tools to measure and boost social media activity.
• filtrbox.com – Realtime social media monitoring tool.