The Christmas and New Year holiday break has given us the opportunity to investigate some new social media tools and apps and here are our top 4 recommendations:

 Flipboard released its iPhone app last month. The new app lets you arrange formal news feeds (BBC, Telegraph) along with posts from the main social networks into one social magazine where you can access everything in one place.  Making it easy to read and share information via Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.  

Flipboard have included some very useful guides to help you get the most out of the app. However, the one thing that’s missing at the moment for me is that there’s no facility yet to manage a business account alongside a personal account on Flipboard. 

Pinterest has been around for a couple of months and has already received plenty of interest and sign ups.  It’s a networking site where you can share and organise images and videos onto customised boards. You can create a board for any topic and share them with followers or across Twitter and Facebook. Pinterest is  useful if you’ve a specific topic or project in mind such as decorating a house or collecting recipes Continue reading →