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TweetMeme - Search and Retweet the Hottest Stories on Twitter. Baynote: The Collective Intelligence Platform. Techmeme. Social Media Monitoring and Engagement – Radian6. Mozilla Firefox. Top 5 Budget Social Media Monitoring Tools. Viralheat – our favourite low cost solution In the run up to Monitoring Social Media 09 I’ve been checking out some of the free or low-cost social media monitoring solutions. I’ve been hearing that many of the top marketing agencies still use free monitoring tools: but which ones? And how do they compare to the high-end paid-for solutions like Visible Technologies, Brandwatch etc? There are lots and lots of these services, but here are thumbnail reviews of 5 of the most best: SocialMention (Free) Often described as the social version of Google Alerts, SocialMention offers a really user-friendly interface.

The big problem with SocialMention is that you can’t save your searches and come back to them. BrandsEye ($1 month) BrandsEye is more of an old-school reputation management tool than a social media monitoring service. Trackur ($18/month with free trial) This is one of those services that, thanks to it’s founder, Andy Beal, get’s a lot of online promotion and coverage. Ubervu (Free) The Twit Cleaner - Clean the garbage from your Tweetstream. Top Topic Trackers (Updated List) Last week we listed and categorized some of the leading topic-tracking tools on the Web. As usual we got a great response in the comments, with additional information about the apps listed and suggestions for other apps to add. So in this post we present an updated list of topic tracking tools for you to explore.

Once again, we invite you to add more in the comments and/or comment on the existing ones. We've also added links, to make it easier for you to check these services out. Feed and/or Email Services These are services that output RSS and/or other formats, such as email notification. Destination Services These services don't output RSS or emails for topic searches. Social Filter These services show what is popular or new amongst their respective communities. Delicious feeds Google Trends MashLogic Searchtastic ("smart Twitter search") Trendistic ("see trends in Twitter") Twazzup (Twitter search) Twitscoop (Twitter search) Twitter search (e.g. for hashtags) Community Curated.

Twitter Email Alerts - Tweet Scan. In the innovative world of Microblogging, one site aims to organize it all. Tweet Scan searches Twitter, identi.ca and other Status.net-based sites with more being added all the time. You can search public messages and user profiles with results available via email, RSS, and JSON. For more information check our API page or read our Blog Benefits of using Tweet Scan Email Alerts: Find lost or multi-user replies. Scan up to 10 phrases for daily or weekly delivery No ads or spam. Services indexed by Tweet Scan: Tweet Scan is a Sterry IT, LLC project. Twitter Directory and Search, Find Twitter Followers.

A Twitter directory - Find your friends and more on Twitter! Monitter : real time, live twitter monitor | free live twitter e. TweetLevel. Help Center. Twitter Grader | Get Your Twitter Ranking. Trendistic - see trends in twitter. Twinfluence - Twitter Influence Analyzer. Hashtags.org. Twitalyzer: Serious Analytics for Social Media Experts.

Mozilla Firefox Start Page. Social Media Monitoring: Who's Making Money? Luke Brynley-Jones talks with Philip Hofmeyr at Social Media Measurement & Monitoring (photo: Benjamin Ellis) So who’s making the money in social media measurement and monitoring? I was on a panel asked this question at the Measurement & Monitoring Meetup on Friday. It’s essentially another take on the ROI of social media monitoring question, but with the focus widened to include suppliers and consultants, and at first sight it’s a rather annoying question. Having established at the Chinwag event on Tuesday that social media isn’t (necessarily) all about financial ROI, to be asked where the money is in relation to social media monitoring tools seems regressive.

Yet it’s actually a burning issue for many of the suppliers. But are they making money? We’re just not there yet in terms of credibility and investment. I guess that leaves the Consultants. Tools to Boost Your Social Media Productivity » SocialOomph.com. Blog Archive » Absolute Beginners Guide to Media Monitoring. Blog Archive » Media Monitoring 101: Making a Plan.

Twitter Sentiment. Four Ways of Looking at Twitter - Research - Harvard Business Re. Real-time Social Media Analytics - uberVU. Semantic analysis of the real-time web. TweetFeel Twitter Sentiment - Twitter Search with Feelings about. Social Media Optimization Tools. Plenty of bloggers are talking about the inevitable intersection of social media marketing and search engine optimization. Heck, we’ve been blogging about SMO since 2006! Keyword optimized social content and channels of promotion provide abundant signals to search engines for improved visibility on standard, social and real-time search.

The changing nature of social media marketing and optimization create the need for tools whether for research, marketing and promotion or analytics. Here are social media and SEO tools you might find useful: Below are screen shots of each tool with a more detailed description of how you might use them. HowSociable is a useful tool to quickly gauge the social presence of a particular keyword or brand name. Agencies like TopRank Marketing will use this kind of tool (customized) to take snapshots of customer social presence metrics for social media optimization programs.