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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. Alterian SM2 Freemium. Social Mention.

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Best Social Media Monitoring Tools

Bill Hartzer

What is needed are powerful methods, and tools to track your brand in the social media paradigm. While there are many more tools available out there, here is a list of some of the best monitoring tools and sites available that you can use to monitor your brand across the social media landscape.

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Four Ways to Measure Social Media Marketing Results

Webbiquity SMM

Others argue that social media is a tool , not an event, so applying an ROI to social media is akin to calculating the ROI of your phone, or that at this point the business risks of ignoring social media are so great that ROI is immaterial. . Sentiment: Are the comments, posts etc. Answers, comments posted on your blog, etc.

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Social Media for the Boardroom

Buzz Marketing for Technology

It all starts with the Pulse Report that Chevron had produced by Edelman (their PR firm) using their Alterian’s SM2 social media monitoring tool. Then they detailed a taxonomy of trigger words that signaled whether the post was positive or negative in sentiment.

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Social Media–What Do I Do With All This Data?

Janet Fouts

Rather than go into yet another social media metrics debate let’s pretend for the sake of argument that you’ve already set up one or two social listening tools. Maybe Radian6 , SM2 , Trackur or one of these social media listening tools I mention when I give talks on social media.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. Sentiment: How much are you willing to automate verse check by hand? How much can you afford to spend on the tool? • In other words, how accurate does it need to be? What about you?

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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 don't think that the secretary needs to know every tool, channel and strategy that the firm uses but she does need to know the difference between a Facebook page or profile.

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