My 14 top tools for thought leaders

LOL! Here I sit looking back over the past decade, thinking that it seems like only yesterday that we were sitting in fear of Y2K. Now I’m making a living using tools that for the most part didn’t exist back then. It’s a wonderful [tech] life, eh?!

Wrapping up 2009, here’s the list of my favorite social media tools, organized according to their position and role within the e1evation system. This may look like a simple list but it took over a year to develop and that’s not because I’m a slow learner — it’s because I use rigorous filters for inclusion in my social media toolkit. I also am constantly using Einstein’s Razor ["Things must be as simple as possible but no simpler."] to keep the toolset small. With that intro, here they are…

Perception

• Google Reader
• Feedly
• iTunes [for sme podcasts, silly!]

Publishing

• Posterous
• ScribeFire
• Shareaholic
• FriendFeed
• Facebook Page [along with key applications]
• WordPress

Propagation

• Facebook Page
• Twitter [along with Hootsuite]
• LinkedIn
• Feedblitz
• Tumblr

Preferences [other favorites tools]

• Delicious
• Evernote
• Instapaper
• Scribd
• SlideShare
• YouTube

Effectively using these tools together has elevated my business blog to #474,040 in the United States and #1,612,683 in the world in just 6 months according to Alexa. Imagine what you could do if you added one of these tools to your toolkit every month or so next year!

Questions? Feedback? Leave a comment or use the contact page. And, have a great 2010!

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