Managing Social Media: Aggregators

There are so many different social media platforms out there that it’s hard to keep up with all of them. For me, I go through phases. Sometime I like to stay really updated with Facebook, other days I’m all about Twitter. Trying to manage all of these accounts and stay up-to-date with all of your friends can get frustrating and tiresome, which takes out all the fun of even having these different platforms. Luckily, there are services out there that can put all of these different networking sites into one window; they’re called social media aggregators.

The whole purpose of social media aggregators is to put all of your different platforms into one place for your convenience. There is a great article that talks about how to simplify your social networking through these aggregators. This makes it easy to see what’s going on in the social media world without having to change screens every couple of minutes.

There are so many cheap and useful aggregators out there. This article tells us what they believe to be the top five aggregators on the market today.

1. Flipboard

2. Glossi

3. RebelMouse

4. Hootsuite

5.  Flavors.me

Each of these aggregators has a free basic account available for use. These aggregators would definitely benefit the typical personal social media guru, but these can also be beneficial to a company. Can you imagine trying to manage social media for a large business? This simple tool could help manage huge amounts of customer feedback through its social media platforms. By having everything in one place it would cut out a lot of non-value added time from employees’ schedules.

Overall, I think that this is a fantastic tool for managing social media accounts whether for personal or business use. Life is more enjoyable when it’s simplified, and this is just another tool to simplify our online-selves.