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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

Alterian SM2 Freemium. I’ve used this tool on behalf of small clients for finding hundreds of key influencers on Twitter, blogs and various other social networking sites and forums. Alterian SM2. Budget: $0 (I have no budget, I need something free!). Results can be exported to Excel for further sorting and analysis.

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Four Ways to Measure Social Media Marketing Results

Webbiquity SMM

While there are unquestionably many ways that social media marketing results can be measured , the debate rages on as to whether it’s truly possible to quantify the ROI from these activities. Some experts contend that because social media activity is rich in metrics , you can and should be measuring ROI constantly.

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The Nifty 50 Top Women of Twitter for 2011

Webbiquity SMM

Cheryl and I thought it would be a great idea to collaborate on this special social media project—and so the process began for creating the 2011 #Nifty50 List of Top Twitter Women. Though fairly new to Twitter, Amber is active and highly engaging, and her following is likely to grow quickly. Amber Buhl. Entertainment Network.

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Social Media for the Boardroom

Buzz Marketing for Technology

At a recent BlogWell event I got a chance to hear Robert Raines from Chevron present his Social Media program and how he reports their activity into the Boardroom. It all starts with the Pulse Report that Chevron had produced by Edelman (their PR firm) using their Alterian’s SM2 social media monitoring tool.

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Best Social Media Monitoring Tools

Bill Hartzer

More and more businesses are getting into social media – an umbrella term that covers various activities that help bring about social interaction on the internet. Facebook and Twitter are some of the main outlets for social media, but there are numerous types of social media like blogs, wikis, forums, chat rooms, etc.

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3 Reasons To Dig Deeper In Social Listening

Convince & Convert

But many marketers are too quick to create a Twitter or Facebook account and proclaim “Mission Accomplished.&# For example, the benefit of using a professional tool such as Alterian SM2 is that it shows the distribution of conversations across all channels. Each can be drilled into and examined in detail. So why bother?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

To be fair, I’ve only included those I’ve actually used (Radian6, Sysomos, Spiral 16) or tested (Meltwater, SM2). You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing.