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PR Monitoring and Management Tools: Which is Best? Vocus vs. Cision

Webbiquity SMM

Vocus and Cision are both powerful and popular PR monitoring and management systems. Among their features: • An extensive database of professional journalists and social media influencers, with biographical information. The fact is, both tools can do the job pretty well (hence their popularity). Online news release distribution.

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The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach

Adam Sherk

Blogger and influencer outreach is an area with strong crossover between PR, audience development and link building. Social monitoring tools like Radian6 and PR suites like Vocus and Cision offer the greatest range of functionality for research and contact management. Each tool is free unless otherwise noted.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

A simple tool like Google Alerts would pick up most stray citations. The explosion of social media has led to a corresponding need for more sophisticated monitoring tools that can crawl the hundreds of social networking and bookmarking sites and millions of blogs across the globe. Budget: $0 (I have no budget, I need something free!).

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

Convince & Convert

” Consequently, I’ve organized 5 categories of social media software not based on company size, or pricing, or platform, or niftiness of logo, but based on your needs. I need to understand their passions and spheres of influence. You need Social Influencer Software. investor), Vocus.

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

Convince & Convert

You spell the difference between quick hit message distribution mentality and deploying social media as a brand relationship building tool. I especially like your last point — if social media has changed anything, it's changed the definition of influence. link] robertwheatley Amen. Frank_Strong This is a great post Jay.

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3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing.

Convince & Convert

I don't see FB rendering the web site obsolete as much as a myriad of well integrated social tools replacing the traditional web site. A well-designed and populated blog (such as yours) partnered with well-planned use of social tools can replace a web site in a heartbeat today (if done properly). It is a tool.

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RIP 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website

Convince & Convert

I don't see FB rendering the web site obsolete as much as a myriad of well integrated social tools replacing the traditional web site. A well-designed and populated blog (such as yours) partnered with well-planned use of social tools can replace a web site in a heartbeat today (if done properly). It is a tool.

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