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If 2009 was the year many marketers puzzled over, poked at and pondered incorporating social media into their marketing mix, 2010 was the year of diving in. 500 companies now call social media “very&# or “somewhat&# important to their marketing or business strategy. Now that social media has advanced from the “should we do it?&# How does the traditional notion of a corporate website need to change to embrace social median norms and capabilities? How should you integrate social media with other marketing tactics like email? MORE >>

Consider Nielsen ratings, which are used to determine the popularity of all TV shows and, consequently, how the dozens of billions of dollars in TV advertising is apportioned. Nielsen ratings have a direct impact on hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. Of those more than 1 million households, the behavior of just 619 was tracked by Nielsen to determine ratings. Social Media is Inherently Measurable. Social media almost always offers the advantage of complete—rather than extrapolated—data. We hate math. friends). Probably not. MORE >>

The Republican National Convention saw sharply dropping numbers in TV viewership – but online and social network participation numbers are up. Is the political conversation migrating from traditional media to the internet? Nielsen estimated that just over 30 million viewers watched the RNC during Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech – a 23% drop from the same night four years ago, when 39 million viewers watched John McCain’s speech. Social Media Audience Up. Tweets from both conventions numbered 13.5 TV Audience Down. million. Twitter Buzz. MORE >>

Over the last few weeks we’ve been carrying out detailed tests and analysis on 7 social media monitoring tools – Alterian , Brandwatch , Biz360 , Nielsen My Buzzmetrics , Radian6 ,  Scoutlabs and Sysomos – so that we can provide an in-depth review of the tools and a comprehensive report laying out the pros and cons for each tool. We’ll cover: The basics of social media monitoring. Sentiment analysis – how accurate is it? International/multilingual social media monitoring. social media social media monitorin MORE >>