Direct Marketing Observations

JANUARY 20, 2010

I thought it was just me and thus I wrote about the rise of the transactional conversation of Twitter on Monday. Then yesterday David Binkowski threw a post up on Shamable about gaming social media. The conversations have eroded into flat out pimping, so has the spirit of what all of us celebrated no less than a year ago.

Sentiment 189

Sentiment Twitter Microblogging Hubspot 189

Direct Marketing Observations

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

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.

Sentiment 143

Sentiment Analysis Aggregator SEO 143

Direct Marketing Observations

APRIL 13, 2010

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.

Social Media 178

Social Media Sentiment Comparison System 178