Anyone who works with social media or with online information knows how important it is to stay organized and keep the workflow, well, flowing. Luckily, there are some great programs to help automate tasks and assist in posting and sourcing content. Let’s take a look at some of the best choices available.
Trello is a simple productivity tool that uses cards and lists to keep you organized. You just create a board and add tasks into as many lists as you like. This program is a great visual option for managing the work that still needs to be finished while keeping track of and sorting the information that’s been completed already.
This is a social media publishing tool that lets you post and schedule future posts for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and App.net.
Buffer can be used to share a mixture of content from your own blog or any content found on the web that you’d like to share, as well as keeping track of how well those posts do and other general analytics.
Another chat tool, this one is useful for team chats, and let’s you create different kinds of chat rooms (for instance, one for design, one for support, one for announcements) as well as having one-on-one conversations. This is what the lobby looks like, where all your chat rooms are seen.
Help Scout is useful for customer support. Replies are threaded like a normal email conversation, but they’re not automatically assigned or sent to anyone in particular. One great feature lets you add notes to the threads so that when another team member takes over, they’re kept in the loop. Help Scout can also organize customer emails using different inboxes.
Check out Fast Company‘s blog for even more productivity tools.