Bill Hartzer

MAY 26, 2010

Visible Technologies – This social media tool focuses mostly on putting into action effective social media strategies. Visible Technologies has successfully helped many companies manage their online branding by doing something so many companies fail to do – listen to their customers.

Cymfony 152

Cymfony Social Media Tools SM2 152

Net-Savvy Executive

MARCH 30, 2011

Other acquisitions have tied SMA firms to PR/media (Sysomos/Marketwire, Brandtology/Media Monitors), market research (Cymfony/TNS, Umbria/JD Power, Evolve24/Maritz), and marketing management (Techrigy/Alterian). The differences in what they do and why is what makes the space so interesting.

Radian6 85

Radian6 Cymfony Alterian Jive 85

Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

I am going to give you a short synopsis of each firm taken directly from the notes I took during my conversations with them and I broke them up into 5 categories: Free monitoring services, Paid monitoring services, Sentiment based analytics, Aggregators of aggregators, and Beyond sentiment analytics firms. SENTIMENT BASED ANALYTICS.

Crimson Hexagon 275

Crimson Hexagon Analytics Sysomos Radian6 275