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What Does Salesforce-Radian6 Deal Mean for Everyone Else?

Net-Savvy Executive

Every few seconds this morning, TweetDeck brings another comment on today's announcement that Salesforce.com is buying Radian6. The announcement's not exactly a surprise—Radian6 was the obvious acquisition target in social media analysis (SMA), and their platform had supported Salesforce integration since mid-2009.

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Brand Monitoring: Where Are They Now?

Net-Savvy Executive

A couple of CEOs have pointed out how few of the vendors ever featured in Forrester's reports on social media analysis are still independent. Visible Technologies Still doing what they do. Back-channel emails are a wonderful thing.

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Monitoring vs Analytics [Infographic]

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In reality there must be hundreds of firms out there doing social media analysis in some form or another but I tried to hit the most popular ones with the single-minded goal of finding a firm that could deliver the most strategic value from the 2+ years of social media data that’s out there. PAID MONITORING SERVICES.