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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Piktochart

Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 by Editor

Infographics are great for getting your content shared but many people are put off by the thought that you have to hire a graphic designer to create them. The good news is you don’t have to be a designer nor spend a lot of money to create them. Use a tool such as Piktochart to create engaging infographics. Choose a template and then customize it with text, fonts, and colors.

Try it for yourself at https://piktochart.com

You might also like to read: How To Create A Healthcare Infographic

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: AutoDraw

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Editor

AutoDraw pairs the magic of machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help everyone create anything visual, fast. Watch this short video to learn more about how you can use this cool tool.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: BeFunky

Posted on January 20, 2020January 20, 2020 by Editor

There is so much you can do with this tool to enhance your visual marketing assets, including creating collages, adding “one-click” photo effects (there are over 300 photo effects and filters to choose from) and an array of graphics (eg speech bubbles). The basic account is free to use and provides users with access to a library of 125 digital effects.

Try it out for yourself at www.befunky.com

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Easil

Posted on July 22, 2019 by Editor

I love learning about new tools to make social media marketing more creative and effective, so I’ve decided to share some of my favourite tools with you at the start of each week. This week’s cool tool recommendation is graphic design tool Easil an online graphic design tool with templates that are especially useful for Instagram and Facebook stories.

Easil is a simple, browser-based system with pre-made templates that you can adapt in seconds with simple drag-and-drop tools. The vertical image templates are especially good and make this tool great for stories. The website also hosts a blog with super helpful design tips.

The free version of Easil is for individuals and limits the types of files you can download. For example, with the free version, you can’t download a GIF or PDF. The Plus service costs $7.50 per month, and the Edge service costs $59 per month.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Quik

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Editor

I love learning about new tools to make social media marketing more creative and effective, so I’ve decided to share some of my favorite tools with you at the start of each week. This week I’m recommending Quik for mobile – a free video-editing tool.

This tool is easy to use and has both basic and advanced features. The basic video editing features include adding photos, videos, music, and text. You can choose a custom theme with transitions and graphics, adjust the font, filters and graphics and personalize your story with text overlays and title slides. The interface makes it easy to reorder, trim, zoom and rotate photos and video clips.

You can also add a soundtrack – choose from more than 100 free songs or import your own music. What’s really cool is that you can start your soundtrack at any point in the song and Quik automatically syncs transitions to the beat of the music.

Your videos can be saved in HD 1080p or 720p, shared to social media, or sent via a private Quik link text or email.

This really is a super tool and well worth checking out.

You might also like to read 7 Best Video Marketing Practices and Resources For 2019

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: CC Search

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Editor

CC Search searches across more than 300 million images from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset. It goes beyond simple search to aggregate results across multiple public repositories into a single catalog, and facilitates reuse through features like machine-generated tags and one-click attribution.

There are six main Creative Commons licenses you can use when you choose to publish your work under CC terms. The six CC licenses are based on four conditions. The four conditions and the six licenses are described here.

Looking for more places to find images for your marketing? Check out this list of 10 Places To Find The Best Free Images For Your Healthcare Marketing.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: SocialSearcher

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Editor

SocialSearcher allows you to monitor all public social mentions in social networks and on the web. Use it to monitor popular hashtags and trending topics. Quickly measure and track what people are saying about your company, name, product, or service in one easy to use dashboard.

The free account gives you a generous 110 real-time searches per day and two email alerts.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Woobox

Posted on May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 by Editor

Woobox allows you to run sweepstakes, contests, polls, and more across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.

Here are some ideas on how you can use this tool.

Create a sweepstakes contest
Create photo or video contests that let followers submit entries
Create polls and quizzes
Create a landing page or form submission offer

If you want to try Woobox for free you can use it to create up Facebook tabs (up to 100 participants) per month.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Steller

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Editor

Steller is a free storytelling application which lets you create photo and video stories with an emphasis on design. – the next web. It focuses on telling a story through pictures and text. The simple, yet structured layout options allow even a beginner to produce a professional standard of work.

Once your story is done, you can publish it to your favorite social media channel or embed it on your website.

Steller is available for download on both Google Play and App Store.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Adobe Spark

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Editor

I love learning about new tools to make social media marketing more creative and effective, so I’ve decided to share some of my favourite tools with you at the start of each week. This week’s cool tool recommendation is Adobe Spark, a free suite of apps which allow both web and mobile users to create and share visual content – like posts for social media, graphics, web stories, and animated videos.

It comprises three separate design apps: Spark Post, Spark Page and Spark Video.

Spark Post is aimed at letting you create professional graphics in minutes.
Spark Page is focused on helping you craft web stories. That means you can use it for things like magazine-style travel stories, photo albums, online newsletters, reports, or anything else that you want to present on the web. It’s basically a simplified web editing platform, with tools that let you mix text and imagery in a highly visual way.
Spark Video lets you create animated videos. Note, this isn’t a tool for filming content – instead, you combine text, images, icons and themes in a presentation, then speak your voice over the story in order to create the video.

Here’s how I used Spark Post to create a quick and easy quote graphic for Instagram: