Social Media Monitoring

Social Media Monitoring

Forums in English

TOOLS

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FREE or PAID monitoring tools - Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Google, etc.

This section will provide links to tools that help you monitor your social media activities more effectively. Only tools pls.

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Free or PAID Tools - help you work faster

Here you can add tools that help you surf faster, work smarter. Nothing regarding monitoring, just tools, software you like to work with

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Testing - Beta trials, Tools, Products, A/B testing,

How well does your product, method, technique compare to other approaches.

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RESOURCES

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FREE Resources - Checklists, Presentations, Newsletters, SM Policies

Pls provide links to material that could be useful to members, such as checklist, white/research papers, studies, presentation slides - TOPIC monitoring Social Media pls.

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FREE - Resources - insight versus hindsight - research papers, white papers, court rulings

Here you can add research reports, white papers, discussion groups that are great resources and so forth ... Nothing regarding monitoring, just insights, intelligence pertaining to social media, e-ma

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FREE benchmarks, standards, rankings of tools, blogs, micro-blogs...

Here we focus on providing links to interesting rankings or benchmarks - rankings or standards pertaining to social media applications/use only pls.

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Best Practice - Social Media 101 - Q&As, discussions about benchmarking, measuring, how to, etc.

Here we discuss, share and point out our tricks, tips regarding the better use of social media including Xing, Facebook, etc.

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My Bookshelf - METRICS and then some

Measurement: books you read about marketing, social media and CRM - primary focus how to measure things smartly Interesting non-fiction books are welcome as well, of course.

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Surveys - polls - statistics - research projects - master thesis - questions, requests...participation

Providing links to interesting social media studies, involving metrics, etc Population statistics, census data, etc.

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Questions and Answers (Discussions)

Here you can ask group members questions and benefit from their knowledge and experience.

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Introductions

Are you new to this group? Why not introduce yourself briefly, perhaps by describing your career to date or telling the others something interesting about yourself.

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Let's solve the problem

You have a challenge, problem related to social media marketing, measurement, engagement.... and you are looking for help, solution, suggestions. HERE you need to pose your problem and we will try to

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ROI - RETURN ON INVESTMENT

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Apéro - Barcamps - Conferences - Webinars - Workshops - Birds of a Feather sessions

Here people announce webinars, video camps Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions (allows people with common interest to discuss issues) + Workshops about analytics & metrics or just of general interest.

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Costs and benefits, ROI,

Silicon Valley's well-worn "URL" path: Ubiquity first, Revenue Later. These explorations generally begin with the asking of a simple unasked question. What do magicians & SM experts have in common?

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Freaklaytics - sex, lies & statistics - visualize, infographics

How to make statistics lie - unravel the secret codes methodological issues: VALIDITY and RELIABILITY of measures Assume nothing, question everything

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TRENDS and historical facts

How does it related to biz and metrics? Things that have or continue to change the way we communicate such as mobile phones, SMS, Apps (see iPhone), micro-blogging (see Twitter), social networks...

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Case studies - successes, flops and disasters

Here we discuss campaigns, policies, social network strategies: What seems to work - what are the flops

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JOB OPENINGS or People looking for work (full or part-time)

Here you can post jobs. Even traineeships or Praktikantenstellen are okay If you have an opening, post here We tweet these using hashtags: #SMMjobs #Xing

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NEWS, MISCELLANEOUS AND FEEDBACK

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Alerts - advisories

News fit to write about. Trends, gossip, insights, criminal acts, violations of user rights including: ===> Twitter, Google Buzz, Identi.ca, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft Hotmail...

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Newsletters archive

Archive of mailings sent by group moderators to members.

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Quotes, Humour (e.g., Dilbert cartoons pertaining to metrics)

Things that are amusing, interesting and help us understand better things within the social media, Internet and web context.

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After Work

Things that have nothing to do with metrics and web analytics. Instead it has to do everything with your REAL life.

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NEWS AND FEEDBACK

What is happening.... Where you should take action, participate, read, comment.

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Ideas, Suggestions, Feedback

Here you have the chance to submit and discuss ideas, suggestions, and improvements for the group.

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Miscellaneous - not on target content

Things that were posted but not really relevant for the target audience of this forum.

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