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This post was originally published on the Twitter Counter blog

Even if managing social media is your full time job, juggling different tasks throughout the day can be a challenge. From content curation to posting and analyzing your performance, it is important to keep your social media management simple and effective.

Luckily, there’s a bunch of tools out there to help you simplify your social media management save lots of time every day. Take a look at seven of my most favorite tools of daily quick and effective social media management.

Content curation

Feedly

Feedly is basically a news aggregator that can pull any RSS feed. You can completely personalize your experience and add all your favorite news sources and blogs into a stream so that every day you can immediately find great articles in your niche to share. Feedly also shows the number of shares for each piece which is a great way to quickly grasp the social media buzz around a topic.

Swayy

Swayy lies in between content curation and content scheduling so it’s a perfect time savior. All you need to do is login with your Twitter account to get content recommendations based on your interests and the content your community finds interesting. This means that you always have relevant content suggestions to choose from, which can save you a ton of time when looking for things to post on social media.

Canva

By now social media science has proven that this is what people love to retweet. And luckily, you don’t always need have professional design skills to put together engaging images for social media.

My absolute favorite tool is Canva because it’s insanely easy to use and you can have an amazing result in less than 5 minutes. Canva is offers pre-built templates for social media posts so no need to worry about resizing. Once you pick the template, the rest is basically just dragging and dropping. You can choose to upload your own visuals and build something from scratch or choose something from Canva’s amazing graphics and use customize it to fit your style. Canva

Posting and scheduling

Buffer

Buffer is a great app for scheduling your content, especially if you’re managing many different social media channels. What’s even more time saving about Buffer is that you can quickly schedule content from anywhere on the web using their browser plugin. Oh and did you know that you can also sschedule tweets using your Buffer account via Twitter Counter? Just start thinking what you’re gonna do with all this extra time in your hands.

Tailwind

Tailwind is a must-use tool for Pinterest and it’s a great help of you are kickstarting your presence on the medium just like we do. Tailwind is great for scheduling pins and repins, easily pinning content from other sources as well finding content to pin through their pin suggestions.

Analysis and Monitoring

Tweetdeck

TweetDeck is sort of a wildcard tool as you can also schedule tweets but its real power lies in Twitter monitoring. Tweetdeck is basically a dashboard where you can keep track of your account’s interactions, monitor hashtags and keywords, making it faster and easier to reply to comments and engage in Twitter conversations.

Twitter Counter

When you’re on a tight schedule you need to get as many insights as possible without having to spend your whole day crunching numbers. From a quick overview of your account’s follower growth, engagement rate and most successful content to an insightful report of all the important metrics, it can all be done in just a click. Take a look for yourself.

Now over to you! Which tools are you using every day for managing social media? Leave your comment right below and let us know.