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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 Parts of Your Company That Should be Listening to Social Conversations

Convince & Convert

“Once upon a time, customer contact was centralized around the switchboard, and the phone was the preferred method for communication between companies and customers. It’s like consultative selling. Listening helps make sure that the language you’re using as a company is the same language being used by the people you’re hoping to hook.

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Understanding the Nature of an Event Using Social Analytics

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The tools to track events to this level of granularity (parts of a day) are not available in most of social analytics platforms I have worked with, but Radian6 Insights has the necessary breakdown to analyze events such as the storm today or the Netflix outrage (where I examined Twitter only). Twitter Influential Steven DiMartino.

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Introducing @Flextronics to the Social Web

Ari Herzog

Press releases and corporate write-ups across the web talk about the company’s production of electronics for Redbox , NASA , Nokia , and Ford — to name a tiny few consumer brands you may recognize. The company went social this fall, as CMO Catherine Hernandez-Blades elaborated in the company’s first blog post.

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The State of Social Media Marketing – Summary of Annual Survey Report (Part 2)

Mindjumpers

The findings are based on a survey, conducted among 469 marketers from wide varieties of industries, company sizes and levels of social marketing expertise. Monitoring platforms quoted by respond­ents include Google Alerts, Radian6, Awareness, TweetDeck, HootSuite, and SocialMention. Investment.

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Clearing Clouds of Confusion – the 5 Categories of Social Media Software

Convince & Convert

The truth is, many marketing professionals do not know what this software can do, much less what specific companies’ versions can do. And the software companies themselves make it worse by not being specific about their capabilities and areas of focus. There are WAY more companies than this.

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

Convince & Convert

To be fair, I’ve only included those I’ve actually used (Radian6, Sysomos, Spiral 16) or tested (Meltwater, SM2). And of course thanks for including Radian6. davidalston Radian6 [link] David Alston Katie, great post on outlining a process to selecting the right tool. And of course thanks for including Radian6.