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What are You Supposed to Measure in Social Media?

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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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The Evolution of Our Data Fixation in Social Media

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In 2006, Radian6 was founded by Chris Newton (@ cdnewt ) and Chris Ramsey (@ chrisramsey ) Back then monitoring and listening were a novel concept, but they knew that social wasn’t a fluke. 2 years ago, We stopped blowing on the reflection of our social media selves in the mirror and wanted to get serious about measuring social.

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Sure I love the conversation but…

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I used to be a social media purist but I’ve evolved. We being the one’s that were there early on who experienced the magic of connecting with someone as smart as say Gavin Heaton or Tom Martin and having them host our social media tweetchat. Yea social media is cool but what’s it all mean?

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This Weeks #Social Media Topic: Managing the Marketing Mix: Which Channel is More Effective?

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Amber Naslund , the Director of Community at Radian6 , understands organizational change is just as important as technical change is and knows how to get people there. Tags: hashtagsocialmedia social media marc meyer jason breed. via hashtagsocialmedia.com.