On the social media your goal as a marketer is to influence and engage users who are important to you. Participation in social media can be time consuming if you want to participate in online communities, monitor what your customers write about you and react quickly. Brent Csutoras provide us with a list of helpful tools to short cut the process wherever possible.

We all know Social Media Marketing can be pretty time consuming. There are numerous social media communities, each requiring you to sign up, make a profile, and participate, in order to have any success with them. So it is only natural that you would like to have some helpful tools to short cut the process wherever possible.

Below we will go through each of the major social communities that I use and outline some of the best tools to help you manage and maintain your accounts.

Digg
A community driven social news site where users submit articles and the community votes them up or down. Articles are promoted to the main page at http://digg.com when they reach a certain threshold.

Digg Alerter is an absolute must have for any user interested in keeping track of their submissions.

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