10 Apps for Monitoring Social Media The benefits of listening to or monitoring Social Media are growing at a break neck pace. Social media is the fastest way to reach out to people. For instance, if you’re looking to get open positions filled in your establishment, there’s a high probability of getting the word out quicker via social platforms. Not everyone is monitoring recruitment sites, your company’s careers page or the corporate blog for vacant positions. When you send out a tweet with a proper hashtag, say “#jobs”, the chances of it reaching more people is highly likely. This is just a sample among some really lucrative domains like customer support, business intelligence and market survey, among others. Hootsuite Hootsuite Arguably the king of social media management tools, with an arsenal of features under its hood. Multiple users can tweet from the same account helping you to rotate members of your customer support team working on shifts. CoTweet CoTweet SocialOomph SocialOomph social mention social mention Postling
12 Steps To Hiring A Social Media Manager I think we can all agree by now that social media is here to stay. As such, the importance of formulating a social media strategy, executing on it, educating and aligning the whole organization, is paramount. This is why your social media manager / director is going to be a crucial hire. Someone asked me on Wednesday night at the SFAMA event: "How do I find someone good to lead social media and community building efforts? Support from the C-suite: Many social media initiatives fizzle before they are ever born, because the there's not enough buy-in from senior management. So what do you think? Photo credit: moionet Link to original article
Web Analytics in Real Time Quick Way to Find Interesting & Influential Twitter Users One of the tenets of marketing on Twitter is to find and connect with the most influential users in your industry. There are several sites and directories that claim to offer an easy way to find those users. But, in my experience, none those sites/tools alone is adequate to really find who you should be following. But, if you use a couple of them together, you may have better luck in finding who the real influencers are in your niche/industry. Here’s a quick way to identify Twitter accounts that might be worth following using two tools: WeFollow.com and Klout.com. 1. Begin by typing your industry keyword(s) into the search box on WeFollow.com. For example, if you search for “seo,” WeFollow will show you a list of some excellent Twitter accounts in the SEO industry. Jot down the Twitter usernames of the top 5 or 10 users (or more if you have time/desire to dig deeper). 2. Using the same “seo” example, if you search for WeFollow’s first name (above), you’ll reach Matt Cutts’ Klout page.
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Sur les traces de la PirateBox Échanger des fichiers librement, surfer sur le web en contournant la vigie Hadopi, c'est ce que propose la PirateBox, créée par David Darts, professeur à l'université de New York. Une lunch box punk en mode WiFi & DIY. Passer un week-end à la campagne a du bon : rien de tel qu’une randonnée pour entretenir vos muscles et voir les effets de la rurbanisation. Se mettre au vert, c’est aussi l’occasion d’un apéro au cours duquel vos amis vous soufflent votre prochain sujet de post. Les corsaires du XVIIIe siècle auraient pu se cantonner aux cours de récré si leurs aspirations ne nourrissaient pas aussi celles des adultes. Hadopi, muse des hackers ? Intéressons-nous à Bey. Comme Gibson et Sterling, je ne pense pas que le Net officiel parviendra un jour à interrompre le Web ou le contre-Net. Une arme ? Dernière pépite française en date, Hadopi, ou comment faire la chasse aux internautes soupçonnés de télécharger illégalement des fichiers sur le principe du mouchardage.