Tag: visual content

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: A Color Story

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Summer-Day-1-1200x800.jpgI 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 image editing app  A Color Story.

The app lets you choose from a large selection of filters to make your photos stand out. Instead of filtering your photos to look all the same, A Color Story filters aim to enhance the color you’ve chosen in your composition. Bright whites, rich color, and clean adjustments.

One very helpful feature of the app is that it lets you save your editing steps to reuse for future edits, which will save time when batch-editing photos.

A Color Story is available free for iOS and Android .

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Foller.me

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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 Foller.Me a simple, yet effective tool to get insights about any public Twitter profile.

How It Works

Foller.me is a Twitter analytics application that gives you rich insights about any public Twitter profile. The tool gathers near real-time data about topics, mentions, hashtags, followers, location and more. It then analyzes the tweet’s contents and tells you about topics usage in form of “tag clouds” so that you can easily understand which words were the most popular. Here’s what my tag cloud looks like:

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Foller.me is a free tool – visit https://foller.me to try it for yourself today.

 

Posted in Cool Tool, Infographics, Visual Marketing

Monday Morning Cool Tool: Infogr.am

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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 Infogr.am – a free design tool which makes it super simple to put together an infographic.

How to use it:

1. Go to https://infogr.am and log in with your Google or Facebook account.

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2. Choose from one of the three available themes – Infographic, Chart/Graph, or Map  – or you can click on “Data import or source” to start with your numbers.

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3. Pick a theme for your project.

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4. To your right, you’ll see the settings bar that lets you set the width, theme, add a custom logo, and specify a share button. To your left, you’ll see several icons. Clicking on them lets you customize your infographic with a map, a chart, text boxes, pictures, data, and even videos.

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5. When your project is complete, give your infographic a title and description. Decide on your permission settings. Do you want to make this public? Or is it just for your own use (public is the default setting; you will have to upgrade your account to keep it private)?  Click “Share” to send out your infographic to your social networks, or to get an embed link to add it to your blog or website!

Posted in Cool Tool, Visual Marketing

Monday Morning Cool Tool: Gratisography

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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 Gratisography, a collection of free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects, free of copyright restrictions.

What I really like about this site is many of the images are quirky and fun – no cheesy stock images here!

Check it out at https://gratisography.com and see for yourself.

Images: Gratisography

Posted in Cool Tool, Infographics, Visual Marketing

Monday Morning Cool Tool: Plotagraph 

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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 Plotagraph – a really cool app that animates images with magical effects.

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Although you can’t see it in this still image, in Plotograph the water is moving!

You can use Plotagraph to create a looping video, animated GIF, or animated PNG. Then upload your eye-catching image to various social media platforms.  Most of the time, you make looping videos or animated images from a video. However, Plotagraph begins with a still image and creates the movement with what appears to be CGI effects. You can upload an image to the app or website, or take a photo inside the app.

Plotagraph is available via the web for free and the iOS app costs $4.99.

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Typorama

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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’s cool tool recommendation is Typorama  another super easy design tool to enhance your social media and content marketing.

Choose from more than 40 different typographic styles, and add professional photo filters, overlays and adjustment tools.  Advanced crop options let you create the perfect size pictures for social media posts, wallpapers, posters, flyers and postcards.

Typorama is available for download from the App Store. 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Aviary

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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 Aviary a simple graphics editor that you can use from your browser window or as an app for your phone.

Use Aviary to fine-tune your photos with a full range of filters and one-touch tools for adjusting lighting, focus and color. You can also erase blemishes and brighten whites in a tap, or personalize your pictures with stickers, frames and overlays.

Go to aviary.com to download the app, or use the desktop version and let the magic begin. 

 

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: PicMonkey

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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 Picmonkey  – another super easy design tool to enhance your social media and content marketing.

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Picmonkey is a “freemium” tool with the option of paying for extras, but I’ve accomplished a lot with the free version.  Some of the features I like most include themed seasonal overlays and Photoshop style cosmetic enhancement features. It’s a great tool to touch up your images. I often use Picmonkey for quick resizing and enhancement of images before I post them online.

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Key Features:

  • Enables you to create custom graphics and customize them.
  • Lets you touch up your images and photographs using a broad collection of features.
  • Provides a vast library of templates to help speed up your work.
  • Lets you export your projects as images to use as you wish.

Visit www.picmonkey.com and try it for yourself!

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Twitonomy

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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 Twitonomy a freemium tool which yields insights on your followers, influence and interests.

Here’s a snapshot of my analytics — and yes, I do tweet a lot!

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You can also get search analytics on any hashtag, user or keyword. With the pro version you can download tweets, mentions, RTs, favorites and reports to Excel & PDF documents — a useful reporting tool.

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Photofeeler

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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 Photofeeler, billed as the “world’s smartest photo feedback” tool.  I’m intrigued by this free tool designed to help you make the right impression online.

 

Advanced algorithms by Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. mathematicians make Photofeeler a valid scientific tool, not just a toy or game.  Photofeeler’s co-founder has a PhD in Optimization Algorithms and experience writing artificial intelligence for Fortune 500 companies. What Photofeeler does with algorithms and machine learning, is monitor vote quality, detect all manners of voter fraud in real time, and use sophisticated score distribution analysis — accounting for factors like individual voter styles — to optimize the accuracy of test results. The consequence is statistical accuracy far beyond what a small number of votes could normally provide.

How It Works

When you start a test on a photo, other logged-in Photofeeler users (within your selected voter demographic) can see that photo on the voting page in order to give their feedback. When the test is ended, the photo becomes entirely private again.

 

Photofeeler Ranks are a comparison between your photo’s score and all the rest that have been tested on the Photofeeler platform. Photofeeler Ranks are given as a percentile. So, for instance, a Rank of 58% means your photo did better than 58% of photos.

Let me know if you try this tool out – I’d love to hear how you get on with it. 

Sign up at http://www.photofeeler.com