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

Mindjumpers

In a previous blog post , Jonas made a summary of a report called “The State of Social Media Marketing” from January 2012 in which he outlined the key points and conclusions drawn from the report. Marketers are still cobbling together paid and free tools to monitor and make sense of the social conversations. Investment.

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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

Many moons ago and long before I entered their world, Flextronics needed a mix of digital and marketing services and hired branding agency Johnson Beesley. This position, along with a mix of teaching and consulting positions that began earlier this year, proves that I have the patience and passions to make it happen. Got a question?

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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). I’ve started a comparison chart, based only on my own experience and opinion, for you to use and update as you see fit. The main pitfall to avoid is flashy graphics for the sake of flashy graphics.

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6 Parts of Your Company That Should be Listening to Social Conversations

Convince & Convert

That’s wisdom from Radian6 CEO Marcel Lebrun (disclosure: Amber’s employer ) about the changing dynamics of communication via the Web, and the importance businesses need to place on paying attention to discussions online via social media listening. It’s like consultative selling. Marketing & PR.

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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. This is especially true of the marketing management guys like Buddy, Involver, Vitrue, Wildfire, et al who all hope to be end-to-end solutions. Further, every company has analytics at some level.