For example, Snapshot Social Media is a new social media management tool along the lines of Hootsuite.

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Developed by Two Steps Beyond, the app started out to help those on the road predict their mobile coverage, but has become a useful tool for many, and picked up critical acclaim along the way (with Wired voting it an essential tool in their 2011 App Guide).

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Organizations are now using this tool to provide accountability and transparency to donors and the public, along with analytical tools for data-driven decision-making.

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For a period of two decades starting in 1966, Graff says, he traveled to Brunei as frequently as once a month to visit with the royal family, who brought him along to polo matches and gave him an Aston Martin to tool around the kingdom.

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The tool computes many of the answers "on the fly" by grabbing raw data from public and licensed databases, along with live feeds such as share prices and weather information.

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