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Online networking has reached another height with the introduction of Hootsuite and Netvibes. Called “social media dashboards” these allow people to manage their internet life all in one place, without having to switch tabs and applications.

Netvibes is a free website created in 2005 empowering web users to experience a personalized online and internet life. They allow users to be able to monitor, personalize, and publish all in one dashboard.

With Netvibes you can customize your own page with everything you need for your digital life in one place. You can input photos, videos, pdf files, and more. You can keep up with your favorite social networking sites (such as Facebook and Twitter) and find out what’s new around the Net.

Choose from thousands of widgets that suits your daily use within a catalog of content and applications. Keep track of your favorite subject, whether it be business, brands or sports, in real time with its dashboard search feature. Get access to the most current news and blogs on varying topics with just one dashboard click. Keep it personalized with their private profile or share a public profile across the web where you can share anything in your dashboard to friends and many more.

Another similar application is provided by a local Vancouver, BC company: Hootsuite. It functions much like Netvibes, but with some varying features. Created by Invoke media, Hootsuite was targeted to a wide user market, but marketing groups, business companies, and social groups found it a useful tool to launch their campaigns and keep track of their statuses online.

Hootsuite has a wide range of features, including the Klout tool where you can gauge your social influence and reputation throughout the web. Higher Klout scores mean more influence. Keep track and review visualization link statistics results in real-time with its click-through statistics and easy report exporting feature. Collaborating with a team, picking new members and removing some could be easily done. You can manage several account members and contributors, share data access without knowing each others passwords, and assign and follow up on each team members from a single centralized dashboard.

With the many social networking sites that you can work with on one page (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress, and more), you can update, post, and broadcast to multiple accounts all at the same time. Create searches for your company or brand name and gather intelligence by monitoring mentions of your brand, search terms, and company.

This advancement in social media use has great advantages to many internet users across the globe. It makes your life easier and keeps you organized. With the use of only one main page which has all essential tools and sites in it, you can do away with multiple applications and tabs open at the same time. Both have user friendly interface and have a wide selection of themes and profiles that suits everyone’s preference. Nowadays, many companies, popular social groups, artists, and even government agencies are using these social media dashboards. It provides impressive help to users which keeps them updated in real-time.

Keeping your social networking life organized and tracking your brand can be a big job, and tools like these help you. Want to learn more about this and how it can help your brand? October 17 Media can tell you how Internet Marketing and Social Networking can work best for your company. We’d be happy to consult with you, just drop us a line!