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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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6 Critically Undervalued Social Media Success Metrics

Convince & Convert

The truth is that there are at least 25 viable metrics you can use to evaluate the success of your social media efforts. Here are the 6 critically undervalued social media success metrics. and then applies some fancy algorithmic voo doo to arrive at a unified metric. PostRank Analytics solves this problem. Search Volume.

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Four Ways to Measure Social Media Marketing Results

Webbiquity SMM

Some experts contend that because social media activity is rich in metrics , you can and should be measuring ROI constantly. Still, much of what happens in social media is highly measurable, and these metrics can lead to an least indirect evaluation of the value of different media, activities, topics and tactics. Influence: a.k.a.

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The Evolution of Our Data Fixation in Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

In 2006, Radian6 was founded by Chris Newton (@ cdnewt ) and Chris Ramsey (@ chrisramsey ) Back then monitoring and listening were a novel concept, but they knew that social wasn’t a fluke. Consider this post in Gigaom, 3 accurate metrics for ROI on social media campaigns.

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The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach

Adam Sherk

Social monitoring tools like Radian6 and PR suites like Vocus and Cision offer the greatest range of functionality for research and contact management. You can also use Topsy Analytics to compare profiles, domains or keywords and see what content has received the most links. Related posts: The Best Free Tools for Twitter Analytics.

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You Become What You Measure

Social Media Strategery

As soon as managers pick a numerical metric as a way to measure whether they’re achieving their desired outcome, everybody starts maximizing that metrics rather than doing the rest of their job – just as Campbell’s law predicts.” We use tools like Sysomos and Radian6 to track millions of social media posts.

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Sysomos Audience Moves Towards Measuring Social Media ROI

Dave Fleet

At first glance it seems similar to Google Analytics in nature – in fact, I previously under the incorrect impression it simply connected social media traffic to web analytics. Sysomos Audience is an addition to the Heartbeat monitoring and engagement tool. In doing so, you gain a relative value for each visitor to your site.

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