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What are You Supposed to Measure in Social Media?

Direct Marketing Observations

Here is your answer from Tom’s post: Most of Facebook’s user data (and, even worse, an indeterminate amount of Facebook’s user data ) is not exposed to sites and services that measure sentiment, buzz and influence.

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Automation in Public Relations Measurement: Yea/Nay?

Waxing UnLyrical

Tracking sentiment around a brand and its competitors might be important for a product manager. But if you are a corporate communications manager, you should really think about whether or not you might be better served by tracking the presence (or absence) of specific campaign messages instead of plain old sentiment.