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

Adam Sherk

Social monitoring tools like Radian6 and PR suites like Vocus and Cision offer the greatest range of functionality for research and contact management. However utilizing enterprise-level tools is not always an option for smaller organizations, or even large ones with budget constraints. Each tool is free unless otherwise noted.

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Are Twitter Lead Generation Cards the Email Marketers’ New Best Friend?

Convince & Convert

In this edition of The Baer Facts, I talk with Kyle Lacy of ExactTarget about Twitter’s new, direct response program.Twitter has displayed “cards” for quite some time. Easy Email Subscription via Twitter. Twitter utilizes the email address you use in your member profile, and delivers that to the advertiser.

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Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

Which online tools are most helpful for PR pros? Get the answers to all of these questions and more here in some of the best social PR guides, tips and tools of the past year. Interactive PR Guides, Tips and Tools. Twitter Pitching Etiquette: What works, what doesn’t… by COMMS Corner. Pitching on Twitter?

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Looking Back at 300: Top 10 Posts on the Webbiquity Blog So Far

Webbiquity SMM

PR Monitoring and Management Tools: Which is Best? Vocus vs. Cision (November 8, 2011). Vocus and Cision are both powerful and popular PR monitoring and management systems. 78 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Tips, Guides, Tools and Strategies of 2010 So Far (August 16, 2010). Which tools are most helpful?

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12 (of the) Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Techniques of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

One part of the confusion stems from the fact that in PR, as in many other crafts, the tools change and advance but the fundamental skills required remain the same. How can PR pros optimize their use of social media tools? How can you make a press release more friendly to blogs, Twitter and search engines?

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6 Things The Army Taught Me About PR

Waxing UnLyrical

Twitter, which was founded in 2006, didn’t exist when I left. This is an important tool in both a counterinsurgency strategy and a PR campaign. I literally have dozens of connections on Twitter with PR pros in the UK, Singapore and India, for example. Frank Strong is the director of PR for Vocus. Prioritize. Stay humble.

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