Top 1. 0 social media dashboard tools. Hootsuite Among the best of breed. How to manage the torrent of social media conversations and increase your productivity By Kim Bale. Socialbrite staff. One of the things we often hear from nonprofits and social enterprises is How do I manage the torrent of social media conversations coming at me The answer used to be Painstakingly and one conversation at a time. But a new crop of social media tools aims to tamp down the social media gusher by letting you update, monitor, manage and maintain several communication outlets at once. While its sometimes hard to know what counts as a social media dashboard, were not including a wide range of customer relationship management CRM or social media monitoring tools here. When selecting a dashboard for personal or professional use, you should consider such items as cost, analytics and which social networks they support, among other things. Our list is meant to feature some of the breakout social media dashboards in the space and highlight their distinguishing features to make the selection process a bit easier. Here are 1. 0 of our favorite social media dashboard tools Threadsy Unify your email, social networks. Threadsy is an intuitive, easy to use dashboard that allows organizations to connect through multiple email accounts as well as Facebook and Twitter. Safari is a web browser developed by Apple based on the WebKit engine. First released in 2003 with Mac OS X Panther, a mobile version has been included in iOS devices. Tad Friend on Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most powerful venturecapital firms in Silicon Valley, and its cofounder Marc Andreessen. Statistical Techniques Statistical Mechanics. Chromium is an opensource Web browser project started by Google, to provide the source code for the proprietary Google Chrome browser. The two browsers share the. Free to use, Threadsy is great for managing your nonprofit or businesss brand from one clean dashboard across the big names in social media platforms. With no fees and no downloads, this service should make a splash in the space for both personal use and use by your organization. Myweboo Organize your information streams. Havent heard of MywebooThats OK. This upstart startup invites users to discover, browse and read popular streams and share them with friends and followers. You or your organization can choose from a wide variety of applications to connect to and stream to a dashboard from categories like news, social, fashion, photo and video. These streams can be viewed together of filtered from My Dashboard and then easily shared via Facebook, Twitter, Linked. In, Flickr, Delicious and other networks. Youre in complete control of which sites will make up your dashboard. Free to use, Myweboo is run by an appealing brother and sister pair of young tech stars. Hootsuite Integrate all your platforms. Our personal favorite is Hootsuite because of the depth of its products and services. Nonprofits and cause organizations can update multiple social media platforms Twitter, Facebook and more from a computer or i. Phone, Android or Black. Berry device. A team of users can track results of their interactions and create a dashboard that will work efficiently with their preferred social streams. Hootsuite offers two versions. One is free and aggregates up to five social network and two RSS feeds it stores stat history for 3. For 5. 9. 9 a month, your organization can enjoy unlimited capabilities for a single user, with each additional user costing 1. Spredfast For teams of social marketers. Spredfast allows an organization not only to manage its social media presence but also to monitor and measure its voice across multiple social media channels from one easy to use dashboard. A great choice for organizations with multiple hands in social media marketing efforts, Spredfast offers superb organizational tools that help identify and assign tasks to multiple users across multiple social media sites ranging from Facebook and Twitter to Linked. In and blogging platforms. It also lets you publish video to many video sites at once, similar to Tube. Mogul. Free for 3. Spredfast has pricing tiers that start around 2. See the new writeup on Spredfast on our sister site, Socialmedia. Media. Funnel Collaborative, permission based system. Coordinate and manage your nonprofits social media presence with Media. Funnel, a collaboration platform that lets you navigate and moderate online conversations about your brand. One interesting feature You can use Media. Funnel to manage your team members social media updates say, by holding your interns tweets in a queue until approved by a supervisor roles include admins, publishers and contributors. Chiefly geared to businesses, Media. Funnel makes it easy to combine several social media accounts and to offer solutions for presenting a brands presence through multiple voices. Scheduled tweets, brand alerts and tweets via email or SMS are supported. Co. Tweet Advanced features for Enterprise users. Co. Tweet is used by thousands of individuals and employees at nonprofits and corporations around the world. The free Standard edition is limited to a few Twitter accounts and geared to a couple of team members. The paid Enterprise edition supports Facebook, too, and is geared to brands more deeply engaged in social marketing, brand building and customer support. It supports an unlimited number of users, advanced workflow, more analytics, third party integrations including Salesforce. Seesmic Free, clean credible. Seesmic allows users to manage unlimited Twitter accounts as well as Facebook, Google Buzz, Linked. In and Foursquare accounts. Another free service, this dashboard is well organized and can be sorted into a variety of timelines detailing tweets, retweets, mentions, direct messages and lists. Seesmic also publishes trending topics, making it easy to join already popular conversations. This dashboard created by Loic Le Meur, founder of Le. Web, and his San Francisco based team is clean, simple and affords the ability to update several statuses, send direct messages and check in to locations from one easily navigated page. Netvibes Share your widgets with the world. Netvibes lets organizations keep track of the news and trends that matter, create unique personal and public dashboards and share these public dashboards or sites with anyone, anywhere, at any time. You can easily create fun and personalized widgets detailing the weather, to do lists, Twitter feeds, Facebook posts or Flickr updates, among many others and post them to both personal and public dashboards. Organizations can choose a theme, name their pages and organize them with tabs and share them with the world. Tweet. Deck Connect with your contacts. If youre a Twitter aficionado, you may already use Tweet. Deck, which works on the Mac, PC, Linux, i. Phone, i. Pod Touch, i. Pad and Android. It connects organizations with contacts across Twitter, Facebook, My. Space, Linked. In, Foursquare, Google Buzz and many more. Free of charge, Tweet. Deck allows users to schedule future posts, manage multiple accounts and update several social media sites at once to maintain consistency. One unique feature allows users to send tweets longer than 1. Buzz and Twitter account. Twitter is a desktop app and not Web based, so one thing we dont like is the inability to manage the apps font size on different screens. Brizzly Simplify your updating. Brizzly simplifies your social media browsing and updating experience while taking some of the work out of keeping up to date with trends and followers. It lets you update on Twitter and Facebook. Its Brizzly Guide helps explain trending topics on Twitter. Brizzly is free. Tools that can integrate your social networks. There are, of course, other social media dashboard solutions for the enterprise. One good choice for businesses is Awareness, which lets your team publish, manage, measure and engage across multiple social media channels. Another is Sprout Social Social media tools for business, a social media management suite. We listed Sprout Social in our roundup of Paid social media monitoring services. Also, dont forget other tools that can integrate your social networks You might want to try using a browser as your social media dashboard. Flock has been the most social of the social browsers for the past five years. Others say Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox will get you a social media dashboard with the right add onsextensions. And Marc Andreessens upcoming Rock. Melt Mashable review will take it a step further, requiring you to log into Facebook before using it. Unilyzer has a social media dashboard to unify your Twitter, Facebook and You. Tube accounts. Were impressed by the private beta of Nimble and will report back when weve used it more extensively. Twitter. Feed lets you feed your blog to Twitter, Facebook and more. Ping. Twitter, Facebook, Linked. In, Flickr and Delicious. Row. Safari web browser Wikipedia. Safari is a web browser developed by Apple based on the Web. Kit engine. First released in 2. Mac OS X Panther, a mobile version has been included in i. OS devices since the introduction of the i. Phone in 2. 00. 7. It is the default browser on Apple devices. A Windows version, now discontinued,3 was available from 2. History and developmenteditUntil 1. Apple Macintosh computers were shipped with the Netscape Navigator and Cyberdog web browsers only. Internet Explorer for Mac was later included as the default web browser for Mac OS 8. Apple and Microsoft. During that time, Microsoft released three major versions of Internet Explorer for Mac that were bundled with Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9, though Apple continued to include Netscape Navigator as an alternative. Microsoft ultimately released a Mac OS X edition of Internet Explorer for Mac, which was included as the default browser in all Mac OS X releases from Mac OS X DP45 up to and including Mac OS X v. Safari 1editOn January 7, 2. Macworld San Francisco, Steve Jobs announced that Apple had developed their own web browser, called Safari. It was based on Apples internal fork of the KHTMLrendering engine, called Web. Kit. 7 Apple released the first beta version for OS X that day. A number of official and unofficial beta versions followed, until version 1. June 2. 3, 2. 00. Initially only available as a separate download for Mac OS X v. Mac OS X v. 10. 3 release on October 2. Internet Explorer for Mac included only as an alternative browser. August 1. 3, 2. 00. Mac OS X v. 10. 2, while 1. January 1. 2, 2. 00. Mac OS X v. 10. 3. However, 1. 0. 3 received security updates through 2. Safari 2editIn April 2. Dave Hyatt, one of the Safari developers at Apple, documented his study by fixing specific bugs in Safari, thereby enabling it to pass the Acid. Web Standards Project. On April 2. 7, 2. Safari now passed the test, making it the first web browser to do so. 9Safari 2. April 2. 9, 2. 00. Mac OS X v. 10. 4. This version was touted by Apple as possessing a 1. Acid. 2 bug fixes. The necessary changes were initially unavailable to end users unless they downloaded and compiled the Web. Kit source code themselves or ran one of the nightly automated builds available at Open. Darwin. org. 1. 0 Apple eventually released version 2. Safari, which included the modifications required to pass Acid. October 3. 1, 2. 00. In June 2. 00. 5, after some criticism from KHTML developers over lack of access to change logs, Apple moved the development source code and bug tracking of Web. Core and Java. Script. Core to Open. Darwin. Web. Kit itself was also released as open source. The source code for non renderer aspects of the browser, such as its GUI elements, remains proprietary. The final stable version of Safari 2, Safari 2. January 1. 0, 2. 00. Mac OS X. It was only available as part of Mac OS X Update 1. This version addresses layout and CPU usage issues, among others. 1. Safari 2. 0. 4 was the last version to be released exclusively on Mac OS X until version 6 in 2. Safari 3editOn January 9, 2. Macworld SF, Jobs announced Apples i. Phone, which would use a mobile version of the Safari browser. 1. On June 1. 1, 2. 00. Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Jobs announced Safari 3 for Mac OS X v. Windows XP, and Windows Vista. During the announcement, he ran a benchmark based on the i. Bench browser test suite comparing the most popular Windows browsers,1. Safari was the fastest browser. Later third party tests of HTTP load times would support Apples claim that Safari 3 was indeed the fastest browser on the Windows platform in terms of initial data loading over the Internet, though it was found to be only negligibly faster than Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox when loading static content from local cache. 1. The initial Safari 3 beta version for Windows, released on the same day as its announcement at WWDC 2. The addressed bugs were then corrected by Apple three days later on June 1. Windows. On June 2. Apple released Safari 3. Safari 3. 0. 2 for Windows handles some fonts that are missing in the browser but already installed on Windows computers, such as Tahoma, Trebuchet MS, and others. The i. Phone was formally released on June 2. It includes a version of Safari based on the same Web. Kit rendering engine as the desktop version, but with a modified feature set better suited for a mobile device. The version number of Safari as reported in its user agent string is 3. Safari. The first stable, non beta release of Safari for Windows, Safari 3. March 1. 8, 2. 00. In June 2. 00. 8, Apple released version 3. Windows version where visiting a malicious web site could force a download of executable files and execute them on the users desktop. 2. Safari 3. 2, released on November 1. Google Safe Browsing and Extended Validation Certificate support. The final version of Safari 3 is 3. May 1. 2, 2. 00. 9. Safari 4editOn June 2, 2. Web. Kit development team announced Squirrel. Fish,2. 1 a new Java. Script engine that vastly improves Safaris speed at interpreting scripts. 2. The engine is one of the new features in Safari 4, released to developers on June 1. The new Java. Script engine quickly evolved into Squirrel. Fish Extreme, featuring even further improved performance over Squirrel. Fish,2. 3 and was eventually marketed as Nitro. A public beta of Safari 4 was released on February 2. Top Sites tool similar to Operas Speed Dial feature, which displays the users most visited sites on a 3. D wall. 2. 4Cover Flow, a feature of Mac OS X and i. Tunes, was also implemented in Safari. In the public beta versions, tabs were placed in the title bar of the window, similar to Google Chrome. The tab bar was moved back to its original location, below the URL bar, in the final release. 2. The Windows version adopted a native Windows theme, rather than the previously employed Mac OS X style interface. Also Apple removed the blue progress bar located in the address bar later reinstated in Safari 5. Safari 4. 0. 1 was released for Mac on June 1. Faces in i. Photo 0. Safari 4 in Mac OS X v. Snow Leopard has 6. Java. Script loading up to 5. It also has built in crash resistance unique to Snow Leopard crash resistance will keep the browser intact if a plug in like Flash player crashes, such that the other tabs or windows will be unaffected. 2. Safari 4. 0. 4, released on November 1. OS X and Windows, further improves Java. Script performance. 2. Safari was one of the twelve browsers offered to EU users of Microsoft Windows in 2. It was one of the five browsers displayed on the first page of browser choices along with Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera. 2. Safari 4 featureseditBeginning with Safari 4, the address bar has been completely revamped The blue inline progress bar is replaced with a spinning bezel and a loading indicator attached to it. The button to add a bookmark is now attached to the address bar by default. The reloadstop button is now superimposed on the right end of the address bar. Safari on Mac OS X and Windows was made to look more similar to Safari on i. Phone than previous versions. Safari 4 also includes the following new features Completely passes the Acid. Cover Flow browsing for History and Bookmarks. Improved developer tools, including Web Inspector, CSS element viewing, Java. Script debugger and profiler, offline table and database management with SQL support, and resource graphs. Nitro Java. Script engine that executes Java. Script up to eight times faster than Internet Explorer 8 and more than four times faster than Firefox 33. Native Windows look on Windows Aero, Luna, Classic, etc., depending on OS and settings with standard Windows font rendering and optional Apple font rendering. Support for CSS image retouching effects. Support for CSS Canvas. Speculative loading, where Safari loads the documents, scripts, and style information that are required to view a web page ahead of time. Support for HTML5. Top Sites, which displays up to 2. Safari 5editApple released Safari 5 on June 7, 2. Safari Reader for reading articles on the web without distraction based on Arc. Readability tool3. Java. Script performance increase over Safari 4. Safari 5 includes improved developer tools and supports more than a dozen new HTML5 technologies, focused on interoperability. With Safari 5, developers can now create secure Safari Extensions to customize and enhance the browsing experience. 3.
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