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54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]

54 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools [Update2012]
If you want to know what’s happening with your brand’s social networking sites you need social media monitoring tools. Before you reach for your wallet and start to spend money try out some of the free social media monitoring services. This way you will get an understanding of what is available and if you need any paid services to monitoring social media. Social media monitoring definitionThe activity of tracking social media channels. Organizations measure and use social media analytics tools to find out what is being discussed about them, their competition and other topics of interest. Social media monitoring includes measuring opinions and sentiment of groups and influencers. This time we have collected a lot of free social media monitoring tools. Group A HootSuite Twitter account: HootSuite Monitor and post to multiple social networks, including Facebook and Twitter. TwitterCounter Twitter account: Thecounter Twitter Counter is the number one site to track your Twitter stats. Klout

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Big Data Market Size And Vendor Revenues By Jeff Kelly with David Vellante and David Floyer This is the 2011 report, originally published on February 15, 2012. See Big Data Vendor Revenue and Market Forecast 2012-2017 for the 2012 update. The Big Data market is on the verge of a rapid growth spurt that will see it top the $50 billion mark worldwide within the next five years. Social Media Reference Link Social Media Reference Link / curated by @JuliusDesign Facebook Logo & Brand Guidelines Buttons & Widget Socialomate Twitter Auto-responder Welcome all your followers and much more. Setup up to 10 messages. Twitter Campaigns Five legitimate use cases for NoSQL databases NoSQL may be one of the most overhyped technology trends in the past couple of years, and a growing number of companies that left their relational databases behind for a NoSQL fling are rethinking their decisions. Yet organizations continue to adopt NoSQL solutions and investors are still eager to pour money into vendors behind the most popular of them. Are they crazy, or has some of the NoSQL skepticism been overdone? The truth of the matter is that, hype aside, there is a role for NoSQL solutions to play in a world consumed by data, and increasingly companies are making smart decisions about when to use relational databases and when to turn to their NoSQL cousins. For organizations facing NoSQL versus relational decisions of their own, here are five use cases where a NoSQL database may have a legitimate role to play.

Get More From Pinterest Places Add a map to your Pinterest board, and when someone clicks it they will be taken to the location in Google Maps. What a great way to show people where you are or where an event is taking place. LDAP Directories: The Forgotten NoSQL - Engine Yard Blog When most Rails developers encounter LDAP, it's usually for user authentication. And most of the time, there's no choice, they're working under a dictate that requires them to use it. Usually, this means Active Directory, but very occasionally something like OpenLDAP or the Sun Java Systems Directory Server.

Google URL Shortener Posted by Michael Hermanto, Software Engineer, Firebase We launched the Google URL Shortener back in 2009 as a way to help people more easily share links and measure traffic online. Since then, many popular URL shortening services have emerged and the ways people find content on the Internet have also changed dramatically, from primarily desktop webpages to apps, mobile devices, home assistants, and more. To refocus our efforts, we're turning down support for goo.gl over the coming weeks and replacing it with Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL).

29 Social Media Tools for the Busy Social Media Marketer Are you using the right social media tools to manage your social media presence? As the demands on social media marketers increase, it can be difficult to find time to do everything. But there are some great tools that can help you save time and increase the effectiveness of your efforts.

BI still dependent on IT There's never been a better time for IT to step up and show what tech can do to drive the business. They're the only people who can set the systems in motion to capture data and mine it successfully. A few years ago when IT/business alignment was the buzz phrase that you heard everywhere, the impetus for this coming to pass seemed to belong to IT. It was all about IT pros developing soft skills and being able to talk "business" with the others at the executive table.

Big Data Solution Offering From MIKE2.0 Methodology Introduction The Big Data Solution Offering provides an approach for storing, managing and accessing data of very high volumes, variety or complexity. Storing large volumes of data from a large variety of data sources in traditional relational data stores is cost-prohibitive. And regular data modeling approaches and statistical tools cannot handle data structures with such high complexity.

Says Big Data Makes Organizations Smarter, But Open Data Makes Them Richer STAMFORD, Conn., August 22, 2012 View All Press Releases Open Data on the Agenda for Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 21-25, Orlando, Florida Whereas "big data" will make organizations smarter, open data will be far more consequential for increasing revenue and business value in today's highly competitive environments, according to Gartner, Inc. "Big data is a topic of growing interest for many business and IT leaders, and there is little doubt that it creates business value by enabling organizations to uncover previously unseen patterns and develop sharper insights about their businesses and environments," said David Newman, research vice president at Gartner. "However, for clients seeking competitive advantage through direct interactions with customers, partners and suppliers, open data is the solution.

Jeff Bullas Blog Social media is a hungry beast. The social networks require constant feeding. They need to be thrown a diet of content that keeps readers and viewers coming back for more. BuzzFeed's Social Media Editor on Why Twitter is the New Press Scrum This post is part of the Social Media Editor Series, featuring interviews with social media editors from news organizations about what they do and where they see social media in journalism going. Michael Hayes’ ambition to make BuzzFeed the number one social news organization is predicated on the idea that social media is the new news. “Twitter is the new press scrum,” BuzzFeed’s social media editor told The Content Strategist. “It’s the place where news goes to break first.”

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