Here's some tasty (yet nutritious) eye candy to keep your brand on the right track—and you in a positive mindset.

Social media guru Brian Solis has released a set of beautiful social marketing posters that you can either purchase—or maybe even download for free. Each is lively, colorful, and at-a-glance informative about fundamental elements of social media—offering tips on how you can get the most out of each social channel.

The Conversation Prism distills the major players of the social media universe into panels, helping you better define how to use each one: Flipboard, for example, is a prime "social curation" tool. For "reviews and ratings," you want go-to services like Yelp or Amazon. Sites like Facebook, bebop and hi5 are pure "social networks" or human connection hubs.

The Twitterverse also tackles familiar-sounding social services, this time from the perspective of complementing a Twitter strategy. Yelp is great for geolocation; TweetStats and TwitterCounter help with Twitter research and analysis; and for social CRM, dive into a service like Postling or dlvr.it.

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