Friday, 6 July 2012

RebelMouse Initial Review


Gather information and control your social marketing tools

The number of social media sites that we use continues to grow as the years pass. It wasn't too long ago that we had no concept of a status update, but now most of us have promoted them from just one part of our Facebook profile to the cornerstone of our Twitter accounts. It seems clear that the social media integration is not complete, as sites like Instagram and Tumblr have become more and more ubiquitous. Indeed, the days of social marketing are just beginning.

But already with only a couple of sites, many of us are wondering how to achieve some integration. For those of us with independent websites, we are involved in a near constant existential crisis over our inability to keep our homepages as fresh and new as our Twitter feed. This is where RebelMouse comes in. RebelMouse is a beta site unveiled by former Huffington Post chief tech officer, Paul Berry.

Your own updated and fresh home page

RebelMouse provides you with a homepage that collects all of your social media accounts into one place. And what's even better is that the page is constantly refreshed - without you having to do anything! It gathers your fresh social media content automatically, and then allows you to rearrange your posts to highlight those that you feel deserve it (and demote those that don't).

RebelMouse also provides you with a platform where you can create new posts and content. You can invite people to contribute to your page and follow your page, both of which foster the sense of community found with other social media sites. Analytics are provided that help you to learn about and analyze the demographics of your traffic.

The possible uses are nearly endless. They range from basic attempts to aggregate social media to advanced social marketing. Its features make it a great option for blogging. The format of RebelMouse also makes it a great way to disseminate information about particular topics. For example, a page on categories of products or even famous personalities could group posts and tweets about a particular topic and give you a vast amount of information from a variety of sources. This rich complexity of information seems to be the internet at its finest.

It’s a great place for a snapshot of what your connections are interested in and talking about all across all social networks and the site is also a repository of information for what interests you and what you are focused on.

A combination of the best

RebelMouse combines all of the great aspects of other social media sites into one easily digestible feed. The simplicity of Twitter is still present; you can read status updates on RebelMouse. But an additional layer of complexity is added when those Tweets are juxtaposed with other comments, news stories, and pictures that logically belong next to them.

It’s visual aspects also allow for fluid movement between pictures and text, all the while in a way that seems to allow you to absorb information very unintentionally. This format, similar to Pinterest, adds another informative layer. It provides an ease of transition between text and images that is hard to find elsewhere.

One of the reasons why this site is so useful is that we find updating our Twitter or Facebook feeds very easy, but when it comes to keeping our homepage up to date, we struggle. RebelMouse does away with that problem and takes all of the difficulty out of having an updated homepage.

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