Free Twitter Alerts within Lists - Listiti.com. Socialcast is FriendFeed for your business | Webware : Cool Web. Socialcast on Tuesday is launching a revision of its group communication service. Originally released in 2007, Tuesday's update has a much cleaner and more contemporary interface, and liberally borrows features and ideas from social sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed. I was very impressed by the demo I got last week. Socialcast appears to have a solid, lightweight product for business communication that could help workers (along with customers and clients) keep up to date with each other, and could also reduce in-company e-mail spam. The underlying principle of Socialcast is that users enter their status messages, questions, or ideas into a simple text box.
Users can also link their accounts to other services, such as Delicious, or to RSS feeds and blogs. People who subscribe to those users can see those updates and can respond to them privately or in public. As on FriendFeed, items that are discussed a lot stay on the top of the stack of items. Sound familiar? Half of us search for brands after seeing them on Twitter. TweetMeme - Search and Retweet the Hottest Stories on Twitter. Welcome to HootSuite - The Professional Twitter Client. Twitter.zappos.com. PeopleBrowsr. A Digital Perspective » Social Media Measurement Tools. 3 Steps to Picking the Right Social Media Measurement Tools Understand business outcomeIdentify the social media activityAnalyse the relationship between social media activity and business outcome Then pick a tool.
I cannot stress enough how important it is though, to understand that relationship between social media activity and business outcome. That’s where the expertise is, that’s where the ROI is. Which tools do I use to measure social media? This would have to be the most asked question of the lot – but honestly, it’s like asking how long is a piece of string. Last night I presented at Social Media Club Sydney (slides and notes now available) and still there was a call to look at which tools.
Which one are essential to me? Katie Chatfield has done a presentation to look at some of the tools available – and you’ll instantly see how overwhelming it can be. 10 Stunning (And Useful) Stats About. UPDATE: Follow me at @rohitbhargava if you liked this post! Last month a social media analytics provider named Sysomos released a comprehensive report on Twitter usage. The problem with most analysis on Twitter, though, is that it is limited by the minimal amount of data that Twitter collects.
So, to fill the gaps, most reports do things like guessing gender based on real names or pulling data from keywords in people's biographic information. This often yields some questionable results - and the Sysomos report is not immune to this (for example, they find that 65% of Twitter users are under the age of 25, but base this on only the 0.7% of users who actually disclose their age). Looking past these small points, the report does share some fairly interesting observations and stats as well if you dig a bit deeper. 21% (One Fifth) of Twitter accounts are empty placeholders.
Twitter is being led by the social media geeks. Twitter from ASP.NET Application | TechArtifact. 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe | FlowingData. I just created a new Twitter account, and it got me to thinking about all the data visualization I've seen for Twitter tweets. I felt like I'd seen a lot, and it turns out there are quite a few. Here they are grouped into four categories - network diagrams, maps, analytics, and abstract. Network Diagrams Twitter is a social network with friends (and strangers) linking up with each other and sharing tweets aplenty.
Twitter Browser Twitter Social Network Analysis The ebiquity group did some cluster analysis and managed to group tweets by topic. Twitter Vrienden Twitter in Red I'm not completely sure how to read this one. Twitter Network Maps When you create a Twitter account, you can enter where you are located, so in my case, I put New York. TwiterVision Yeah, it's a Google Maps mashup, but a bit better than what you're used to seeing. TwitterVision3d It's TwitterVision taken to the next dimension.
Analytics TweetStat TweetVolume TwitStat TwitterMeter Abstract 24 o'clocks TweetPad. Twitterverse. Graphin' Your Stats. My Essential Twitter Tools. Find me at jowyang on Twitter Many conversations are shifting to Twitter, this post proves it (network with others, by adding those in the comments). Twitter is extensible, and many third-party developers are creating tools around the simple data being exported for a variety of unique applications. If you’re using Twitter for personal, corporate use, or to manage the brand of a client, you’ll need the right tools to find and engage the discussions.
Here are the tools that I’m using to improve my Twitter experience, note that all of these are using my profile, but you can change to fit your needs. 1) Client: Although I mainly use the browser to see what’s going on (I click on profiles to see what people have said) Twhirl is the most popular client, using adobe air technology. I should add that I check to see who is replying to me from my mobile phone, and sometimes update from mobile phone.
Out of the 6, now 7 tools I listed above, which ones do you use, or are there others you recommend? ShareThis | Quick Sharing to MySpace, Email, and More! Nielsen BuzzMetrics' BlogPulse. Which Tool to deploy for your Strategy? It depends.