Pitch Persuasion

Audioboo - a great podcasting tool for the iphone

audioboo
Podcasting has long existed online as a useful way of getting the word out without needing to write anything. However until now it has been a bit too much work, you have to find a microphone, then sit infront of a pc, find the right tool, record, upload and then distribute!

Audioboo does everything for you on an iphone. You set-up once online and you can record podcasts anywhere which will then self distribute all by pressing a single button!

Famous users include: Stephen Fry, Tony Blackburn & BBC London

I interviewed Mark Rock the founder of Audioboo earlier in the month, click here to watch.

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Top 8 Twitter Tools for Agencies & Brands

Twitter is clearly here to stay therefore agencies need to understand what is happening on twitter as well as whether the individuals within their companies are using twitter effectively.

I’ve trawlled the net over the last month and come up with seven free tools which are really useful to analyse your twitter accounts as well as track trends in the twittersphere.

Obviously these tools are still very early and we expect to see better paid tools as time goes on and as soon as they’re out I’ll do a review and send it out.

Tools for analysing your twitter account

Klout - http://www.klout.net
Klout is great tool for working out where you sit in the world of twitter as well as working out your geographical reach. Out of all the tools in this list, this is the most advanced although you may need to think hard about what the output means to you.

TwitterSheep - http://twittersheep.com
A great yet simple tool which shows you a tag cloud of the bios of all of your twitter flock. Very useful to see the type of people you are interacting with.

Twitalyzer - http://www.twitalyzer.com
Similar to Klout Twitalyzer looks at your influence, signal, generosity, velocity, & clout. A nice simple and easy to understand tool.

Tweet Stats - http://tweetstats.com
Graphs all of your tweets and shows you when you’ve been tweeting, how often all in pretty graphs.

Tools for using twitter

Tweet Later - http://www.tweetlater.com
It does what it says on the tin, if you have to pop out the office and know you’re not going to be able to/remember to tweet on something you can set Tweetlater to tweet for you.

CoTweet - https://cotweet.com
CoTweet is twitter for companies it allows you on one account to have multiple users and assign inbound messages to users. If you are a brand and have multiple twitter’ers then this is the best tool out there.

Tools for tracking trends

Tweet Volume - http://www.tweetvolume.com
Very simple tool for comparing the popularity of keywords.

Twist - http://twist.flaptor.com/
A really cool tool that lets you graph the mentions of a keyword over time. Useful for tracking the virality of any campaign.

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Sun Start-up Essentials & EveryCity Photothon Finalists

Over the last one months Sun Startup Essentials & EveryCity have been attending and sponsoring a number of events and running a photothon for the most creative photo which includes one of our stickers and a person.

The winner will win £5000 of hosting from EveryCity and one runner up will win an ipod touch from Sun Start-up Essentials. In the event that the winner doesn’t want their prize they can nominate a Start-up or a charity.

We’ve narrowed down all the entries and come up with six finalists below. The winners will be those with the highest number of re-tweets on Saturday 20th June 2009.