Introducing the FreshNetworks social media monitoring review 2010 , a series of detailed tests and analysis on seven of the leading social media monitoring tools – Alterian , Brandwatch , Biz360 , Neilsen Buzzmetrics , Radian6 ,  Scoutlabs and Sysomos. At the end of January, the Economist published a special report on on social networking.Their special report on A World of Connections , provided an excellent overview of the current state of social media for those still trying to get to grips with it. You can download a free pdf of the report here. MORE >>

Back in the day, if you wanted to know how successful your marketing had been you had to use expensive and time-consuming analysis. One of the best free solutions for finding information across the social web, Social Mention even gives a basic overview of sentiment and shared value. The micro-site has more call-to-actions, like a downloadable mobile APP or a QR code to scan, along with a newsletter sign-up for free updates about the widget, etc, where to find you online and more. How many apps or coupons were downloaded? Thankfully, that was back in the day. MORE >>

blog , maintained by Peter Friedman and the students in his Legal Analysis & Writing classes at Case Western Reserve University of Law. You can download it from here. Sarah, This is a great overview. What an amazing overview about this very wide and very challenging topic! kind of a constant balance war between general overview and specialization. ReadWriteWeb. RWW Network. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteTalk. Last100. AltSearchEngines. About. Subscribe. Contact. Advertise. RWW Daily by Email. RWW Weekly Wrap-up. Web Apps. Trends. Google. Microsoft. Facebook. MORE >>

In it we’ll be giving you an overview of the results from the first set of tests we carried out on our seven selected tools. One of the areas we wanted to test was the sentiment analysis accuracy of each tool. In order to compare the automated sentiment (ie, sentiment that is coded automatically positive or negative by the tool) with our own analysis we had to extract the conversations and manually code them. This is our second post from the Social media monitoring – 2010 review series. Setting up the search string. Our tests. social media social media monitoring MORE >>

Feel free to download and distribute it in your network. Reply Sorav Jain March 8, 2010 at 5:10 pm Very good analysis. quick overview of Indian business twitter scenario. Though looking for some more deeper analysis on the sales front or on overall impact on business (may be more qualitative, focus groups / individual interviews from the CEOs or MDs of the most activities companies on twitter). Home About In the Media Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison) How People Respond to Your Online Content March 8, 2010.1:39 of tweets, tweet type, conversation type. MORE >>