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What are You Supposed to Measure in Social Media?

Direct Marketing Observations

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

Convince & Convert

The social media software industry offers some amazing functionality, but it suffers mightily from murky messaging and customer confusion. The truth is, many marketing professionals do not know what this software can do, much less what specific companies’ versions can do. The 5 Categories of Social Media Software.

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Automation in Public Relations Measurement: Yea/Nay?

Waxing UnLyrical

collecting media coverage, putting it into a database, matching the articles and posts up with other metrics, etc.). Traditional and social media measurement tools usually provide 3 broad types of automation: 1. I don’t know why marketers and PR professionals would want to do the same thing to their brands.