The image below is a screen shot of the last 7 posts on this blog in PostRank’s Analytics platform. We’ll discuss this tool a bit more in a moment, but the main features are that it tracks the number of engagements per post – most pertinently, the number of Tweets, Google Buzzes, Delicious Bookmarks and other social networks, in addition to unique visitors, reading time, etc. According to PostRank, “80% of the conversations about your content happen off-site&# ( link.) Almost every post I write has more comments than tweets. But it does. MORE >>

pamorama marketing, life, social media Home About Bookshelf Links Contact 26 Free Tools for Monitoring Your Brand’s Reputation by Pam Dyer on December 6, 2009 Share Are you listening? Build a list of keywords and terms about your brand, customers, company, and market, then use some of these free tools to get a clearer view of what people are saying — with this knowledge in hand, you can begin to really develop a social-media strategy: Addict-o-matic : Allows you to create a custom-made page to display search results. Sideline : A TweetDeck-esque tool from Yahoo. MORE >>

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Four Free Digital Marketing Tools for Non-Profits January 24th, 2011 Tweet Guest post by Erica Holt These are frugal days, and everyone loves getting and writing about free stuff. Instead, here are four completely awesome tools I love that don’t seem to get the attention they deserve. also don’t recommend implementing tools willy-nilly because they are free. Yes, the tool is limiting. Image: Brad Stabler via Flickr, CC 2.0 MORE >>

pamorama marketing, life, social media Home About Bookshelf Links Contact 100+ Social Media Monitoring Tools by Pam Dyer on October 12, 2010 Share From fans to followers, brands are actively working to engage their current and future customers via social media — and online reputation management is quickly becoming a vital part of doing business. But there has been an explosion of more elaborate tools, including Radian6 ‘s solutions, which offer you a complete listening and engagement platform, and Scout Labs ‘ tool that tracks social media and finds signals in the noise. MORE >>

This first list is a compilation of the top posts on Kikolani, as determined by PostRank ’s engagement analysis. Keyword Research for Blogging This guest post by Benjamin Sappey shows you how to find great keywords for your blog (and blog posts) using Google Keywords Adwords Tool and analyze with Market Samurai and SEOMoz Keyword Difficulty. What is PostRank? PostRank calculates blog post engagement based on the number of comments and social shares through Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Buzz, Delicious, Digg, and several other social networks. Series. Twitter. MORE >>