Check out this free infographic tool bit.ly/LvRbob. I was looking for something like this for ages. Its actually pretty good.

Gmail meter provides you with some great stats on how you use your Gmail account. You can then use this tool's reporting to uncover nefficiencies in the way you are handling your email.

Facebook's new timeline is much more visually attractive. However, the large horizontal picture that now appears at the top of your page is a bit awkward. Most cameras don't take photos in these dimensions. To correctly crop your photos, you can now use the "Aviary Photo Editor" App on Facebook. You'll find it with a quick Facebook search. Cropping problems solved.

A few weeks ago mashable did a piece (on.mash.to/zSQmjU) on a selection of free Google doc spreadsheets that can pull in and analyze social media data. Essentially the spreadsheets can work as a poor man's alternative to expensive, professional social media monitoring tools. I recently went through these different spreadsheets and the two most valuable tools seemed to be:

• Tool 1 for searching Twitter results
• Tool 2 for counting Facebook likes and shares that are associated with specific urls (website addresses) 

I think tool 2 would be particularly useful for small business keeping tabs on competitors. It could also be useful for identifying hot content. I had issues getting tool 3 to work. For full details on setting up these spreadsheets be sure to read the mashable article.

If you like these tools you might also like this tool for tracking Facebook fans and Twitter followers over time.

According to a recent aricle by Boomerang featured on Mashable on.mash.to/yC6wlT, to get people to read non-marketing emails, the best times to send such emails are 5-7am and 11am-1pm.

To get responses to email use the following words: apply, opportunity, demo, connect, payments, conference and cancellation. Avoid the following words: confirm, join, assistance, speaker, press, social and invite.

A new study from Georgia Tech, MIT and Carnegie Mellon has revealed what makes tweets more or less interesting on.mash.to/zD9mVa. According to the study you can improve your tweets by:

• Tweeting about new, rather than old, news (common sense)
• Adding your opinion to tweets
• Keeping your use of Twitter terminology to just simple hashtags and re-tweets (RT's)
• Avoiding boring personal status updates
• Keeping tweets short and simple, but still providing context 
• Not constantly complain
• Writing an effective headline, if you want click-throughs (this site bit.ly/xongVA  provides some great tips on writing killer headlines)

Smashing Magazine recently did a nice piece on a system for rating and comparing websites. What I particularly like about this systems is that it can easily be vizualized. It also seems like a decent approach should you not want to recruit participants to properly conduct a usability test. Having said that,in my opinion, conducting a usability test with actual users is preferable. In any case, the system outline by Smashing Magazine can be accessed here bit.ly/z01dRq.

This article identifies 6 phrases you should avoid using in your resume lifehac.kr/vUcR1E.

While the jury is still out on whether QR codes are a fad marketing tactic or not, here is a good short guide from Mashable to set up your own QR code campaigh, should you want to give them a try on.mash.to/tx7mbG.

Great fast an easy to understand guide from Google to setting up Google + on.mash.to/rUcFGb. Two huge reasons you should set up Google + if you're a brand are the ability to get +1's to improve your search rankings and the ability to send customized messages to groups of customers (e.g. location).