Journalistics.com published a comprehensive list of online applications and tools that will make your life and job easier. We only selected our favorites:
Aggregation & Collaboration
- Alltop – one of the leading blog aggregators out there; check out the Journalism section as a good example
- Digsby – get your IM, Email and Social Networks all in one place, that’s what Digsby is all about
- Tinychat – create chatrooms on-the-fly; BackNoise is another good one for this
- Gist – helps you learn more about the contacts you’ve made – all in one place
- Google Apps –check out Google Reader or Google Wave
- Instapaper – a fast, easy, and free tool to save Web pages for reading later
- Utterli – another online chat tool you can use to start discussions via the Web or your mobile device
- Skribit – let your readers suggest topics for you to blog about, and put an end to writer’s block
Monitoring & Analytics
- ConvoTrack – a bookmarklet that enables you to see the entire conversation surrounding a post (see comments from Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit, etc.)
- TweetBeep – the “Google Alerts” for Twitter – monitor keywords in Twitter and receive email summaries for free
- Google Analytics and Google Alerts
- SocialMention – a free, real-time social media search and analysis tool
- Monitter – real-time, live Twitter monitor – lets you monitor Twitter for keywords, similar to features in some Twitter clients
- Twitterfall – my favorite tool for following any topic on Twitter, powerful Twitter monitoring tool that displays tweets in a “waterfall” window
File Utilities
For a full list of apps and tools collected by Jeremy Porter, please check out: Journalistics.com
