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The sea change in Twitter sentiment

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Then yesterday David Binkowski threw a post up on Shamable about gaming social media. … A way for brands and individuals to pimp themelves and try an extract something from the engagement. I thought it was just me and thus I wrote about the rise of the transactional conversation of Twitter on Monday.

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Sentiment Analysis-Opinions Matter, If Only You Knew Which Ones

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Listening is the first step in social media (everyone says so). Frankly, I think everyone says that just to buy a little time before they have to really figure out what to do with social. I’m not going to get into the depths of all things social media monitoring because that would take all day. No voice inflection.

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What are You Supposed to Measure in Social Media?

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My graph is not totally untrue for those of you that play in the space, but I was reading a post by Tom Webster today titled, The Uneasy Relationship between Twitter and Social Media Measurement and I knew exactly where he was going with it. If the answer is yes, this troubles me.

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This weeks #Social Media Topic: Managing the Effectiveness of Your Social Programs #SM55

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Effective social media programs? That’s the struggle of corporate social media marketers. There are tons of systems that help you listen and monitor , there are a lot of publishing tools that let you update multiple accounts and personas in the same dashboard, hundreds of social platforms and a few reporting tools.