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6 Tools to Help Cast Your Social Safety Net
What are you doing to protect your social media content and contacts? The answer, for most of you, is probably “nothing.” It’s not your fault. In all honesty, few people even consider the possibility of losing their social content.
However, if you’re an active user—and especially if you’re using it for business—you likely have a great deal of value locked up in the sites. If something were to happen, you could lose it all. That would mean hundreds of hours down the drain, and hundreds more to rebuild what was lost.
Okay, I’m guessing you’re sufficiently worried at this point. So now it’s time for me to swoop in and allay your fears. Thanks to a recent article on Entrepreneur.com, I can offer six tools to help you “cast a social safety net.”
“This cloud-based service in Cambridge, Mass., offers regular backup of your information that’s housed on such sites as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others. This site will preserve your online profiles, messages and photo albums in case the originals are corrupted, stolen or simply disappear.”
“[With this] social-media backup service from the UK based iBundle, you can create an online and offline, private and searchable digital journal of your entries and photos. You can even travel back in time to see how your social media profile has changed.”
“This free tool from Firefox allows you to save actual web pages from Facebook to your computer. By downloading this Firefox add-on, you can save photos, messages, friend lists, notes, events, groups and other Facebook information directly to your hard drive.”
“This free service from Triop in Sweden offers daily backup of your blog without installing any software. While the service offers to automatically restore blogs running on WordPress and Blogger.com, BlogBackupr also provides back-up support for blogs that run on other systems such as Tumblr.”
“Another free offering from Triop is TweetBackup, which provides an archive of up to 3,200 of your tweets and the people or brands you follow.”
“This software allows you to download videos from YouTube, including HD and HQ videos, and convert them to other video formats like MOV or MP3 files.”
You can read the article in its entirety at Entreprenur.com.
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