752,626 Facebook Ads Analyzed, an eCommerce Growth Case Study, New Social Media Tools, and More!

https://blog.bufferapp.com/social-media-news-episode-104
Transcription of a new, meaty podcast on social media.

Do 3rd-Party Social Media Tools Negatively Affect Reach and Engagement? Our 200+ Post Experiment and Results

https://blog.bufferapp.com/3rd-party-social-media-tools
Do 3rd party social media posting tools help or hurt? A little of both.

6 Tools To Turbocharge Your Content Marketing in 2017

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/287309
Top social media automation tools around. Some I've used, some I don't. 

Meet the World’s #1 Open Source Social Technology Enabler!

https://socioboard.org/
OpenSource social media dashboard. But are the good plugins paid? Not clear.

The 20 Best New Social Media Tools to Try in 2017 (And How to Use Them)

https://blog.bufferapp.com/new-social-media-tools-2017
20 new social media tools: automation, graphics, analytics

8 Powerful Features to Help You Use Buffer to the Fullest

https://blog.bufferapp.com/use-buffer-to-the-fullest
Ways to use Buffer smarter. 

How to Automatically Reshare Your Social Media Updates Using Free Tools

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-automatically-reshare-your-social-media-updates-using-free-tools
I use #blogger and tweetpost, but here's a clever way to schedule #socialmedia posts using #googlecalendar:

How to Improve Social Media Posts With Custom URL Shorteners

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-improve-social-media-posts-with-custom-url-shorteners/
Reasons why, but not how-to, use a branded url shortening service. 

Meet Edgar: The Social Media Queue That Fills Itself

https://meetedgar.com/

Will this be the next step in #socialmedia automation? We'll see.

How an Award Winning Food Blogger Used Trello, Todoist and Zapier to Grow Traffic 10x

https://zapier.com/blog/wordpress-trello-editorial-tutorial/

Good overview of the complete workflow of #blogging: generating ideas, research, writing, sharing.

10 social media automation tools

http://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2015/02/infographic-social-media-tools-that-will-massively-improve-your-business.html

10 #socialmedia #automation tools to help create and monitor content: