GrindSmart

Every day people use social media to inform and make themselves known on the web. And now designers are using social venues to get their names out on the forefront. With the massive amounts of time spent socializing on the web, you can only expect to have a set of tools to help you. This is why we’ve compiled 7 Best Social Media Tools for Designers. This list will help you save time, get your name out, socialize, make friends, and bring in more clients.

Socialite

Socialite solely operates on Mac machines. This app integrates the top 5-6 social networks into one usable and easy to access program.

TweetDeck

TweetDeck is an Adobe Air application that allows you to quickly organize and place imporatance on your tweets. You can group tweets based on search terms, time frame, and so on…

Spokeo

Search over 41 different social media networks for any and all sorts of information. It’s as simple as that.

Stribe

Stribe lets you instantly create a social network on any website. Users will be connected with your community on any website with Stribe. It is totally customizable and you have freedom to change colors, fonts and background.

CROWDFusion

Crowd Fusion is a publishing platform that combines several popular applications – like blogging, wikis, tagging and work-flow management – with some original concepts.

UserVoice

UserVoice can help track and manage the feedback of your clients or customers. Users will be able vote on the ideas of other users, you’ll be able to get quality suggestions and opinions on you projects as well as applications.

Get Satisfaction

Get Satisfaction provides you with a forum where your customers are able to get answers to questions, solutions to problems, and submit feature and new product requests. Those answers and solutions are stored and searchable over time, cutting down on support costs and building trust with your user-base.