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Sysomos Acquired By Marketwire

Dave Fleet

In recent months we’ve seen several interesting moves within the social media monitoring/social CRM space. As Ray Wang suggests , expect to see more of this kind of activity in the coming months with other companies such as Alterian , BuzzGain , Cymfony , Radian6 , Viralheat and Visible Technologies.

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What Does Salesforce-Radian6 Deal Mean for Everyone Else?

Net-Savvy Executive

The Radian6 deal says a lot about interest in social CRM, or the integration of social media monitoring and customer relationship management.

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Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive | Social Media.

Convince & Convert

link] > @jaybaer [link] Stephanie Wonderlin Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive? When applied to the area of Social CRM, we see the majority (+90%) of activity as reactive (social monitoring)– very focused on the service-side. – [link] (via @jaybaer) randyx123 I like your post Jay.

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

Convince & Convert

But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. And then there are monitoring tools like Alterian's SM2 that are out of most people's price ranges. What do you think?

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

Convince & Convert

link] Katie Van Domelen I actually haven't used SM2 since it switched from Techrigy to Alterian so I had to call them and ask a few questions to refresh my memory. The closer we get to a tool that will incorporate both monitoring and management in one, the better. Is that not true?

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78 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Tips, Guides, Tools and Strategies of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Despite the widespread use of the phrase “social media marketing,&# marketing is not the only business use of social media, as John Jantsch reminds us. Here he outlines five ways that sales can use these tools as well, from social CRM to teaching prospects how to solve business issues. Share this on Mixx.

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Monitoring vs Analytics [Infographic]

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Alterian – formerly known as SM2 by Techrigy offers a freeimum service that offers up to 5 search terms to monitor for and up to 1000 results, which could be good enough for some small brand with low volume. Which sounded like Social CRM meets Systems Integration company to me. They offer 2 products: Heartbeat and MAP.