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Best Social Media Monitoring Tools

Bill Hartzer

Alterian SM2 – formerly Techrigy SM2, this social media monitoring and analysis tool was designed with marketing departments, and public relations companies in mind. Sentiment Metrics – founded in 2005, Sentiment Metrics has helped businesses listen to the growing world of social media.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Sentiment: How much are you willing to automate verse check by hand? To be fair, I’ve only included those I’ve actually used (Radian6, Sysomos, Spiral 16) or tested (Meltwater, SM2). I'm currently using SM2 for most of my clients, and like how easy it is to use. In other words, how accurate does it need to be?

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

Convince & Convert

I mirror your sentiments. And then there are monitoring tools like Alterian's SM2 that are out of most people's price ranges. The problem with the approach most people take is how to quickly garnish all attention to surround them, without thinking about a holistic long term approach.

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Monitoring vs Analytics [Infographic]

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I am going to give you a short synopsis of each firm taken directly from the notes I took during my conversations with them and I broke them up into 5 categories: Free monitoring services, Paid monitoring services, Sentiment based analytics, Aggregators of aggregators, and Beyond sentiment analytics firms. SENTIMENT BASED ANALYTICS.