Giveaway Day 6: Share Your Favorite Tool & Celebrate Week 2!

Hands down Canva is the tool I use the most other than Sprout Social!

Looking forward to seeing any calendar planning tools others might use for planning social media out.

I also use the Social Media Calendar for schools from Finalsite it gives me some great ideas for posts. It comes out quarterly and is specifically for schools but I could see it being used for other purposes.

One of my favorite tools is monday.com. It is my lifesaver!!! Not sure what I would do without it 😂

It’s a work management tool that my whole team uses to organize our tasks and projects. I have automations set up to create reoccurring tasks each month, track how long projects take so I can look back on them in the future, and more! I also love tracking my KPIs in monday and being able to visually see how close I am to hitting my goals. I would highly recommend monday to anyone who is looking for a better way to organize their tasks and projects. 

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One of my favorite tools is monday.com. It is my lifesaver!!! Not sure what I would do without it 😂

It’s a work management tool that my whole team uses to organize our tasks and projects. I have automations set up to create reoccurring tasks each month, track how long projects take so I can look back on them in the future, and more! I also love tracking my KPIs in monday and being able to visually see how close I am to hitting my goals. I would highly recommend monday to anyone who is looking for a better way to organize their tasks and projects. 

I need to test out monday.com! 

We use Trello for Project Management - it’s a great resource to know what other things I’m working on outside of social calendars and content.

And honestly, having a work phone separated from my personal phone to keep an eye on socials, gather content with, etc., is a game-changer. 

Mine is Notion!! i love how it helps me organize a project and keeps all relevant docs organized. 

Canva whiteboard has been a game-changer for me. I am an “all the puzzle pieces out in front of me” type of person and the whiteboard has no limit. I feel like I don’t forget things and I genuinely get to have a mentality of “this can fit in this month...we should try this…and this connects to this.” Highly recommend! 

Apart from Sprout Social and Canva, which are amazing tools that I use on a daily basis, Adobe Color’s accessibility tool is a go-to for testing color contrast in designs. Accessible Brand Colors by Use All Five is another great accessibility tool that I’ve been using as my organization is working towards a rebrand.

Adobe Express has been a lifesaver to generate video subtitles! Super easy to use and it’s usually accurate.

Mine is Notion!! i love how it helps me organize a project and keeps all relevant docs organized. 

Cap Cut is everything to me! Ease of quick editing, exporting, fonts, etc. It really simplifies my editing process and it’s just so user friendly. Also, their free option isn’t even that limiting but I did opt in for the Pro Plan just for some fun extras! 

Honestly Sprout Social has been the biggest game changer for me this year since I advocated for our team to start using it. I spend a significant amount of my time on content planning and social media management for two organizations, and Sprout saves so much time since I can almost always schedule all my content in one spot. Also, I didn’t realize how many tags/mentions I was missing because of Meta’s glitchy notifications, so the smart inbox tool has been incredibly helpful as well. 

Canva whiteboard has been a game-changer for me. I am an “all the puzzle pieces out in front of me” type of person and the whiteboard has no limit. I feel like I don’t forget things and I genuinely get to have a mentality of “this can fit in this month...we should try this…and this connects to this.” Highly recommend! 

Monday.com!! I know other people have mentioned their project management systems, but I live by Monday. It organizes our content calendar, my meeting notes, my task list, and other projects that need to be done. There’s been a few times where it goes down and I truly don’t know what to do without it. 

Cap Cut is everything to me! Ease of quick editing, exporting, fonts, etc. It really simplifies my editing process and it’s just so user friendly. Also, their free option isn’t even that limiting but I did opt in for the Pro Plan just for some fun extras!