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7 Reasons to Use Piwik Open Source Analytics. 227 Flares Twitter 215 Facebook 1 Google+ 8 Pin It Share 3 227 Flares × Google Analytics is ubiquitous in web development, and as far as most people are concerned is the only viable source of information tracking for their website.

7 Reasons to Use Piwik Open Source Analytics

Installing analytics on your website is the first step in understanding how visitors are finding your website. Understanding how visitors are finding your website is the first step in improving your marketing and focusing your campaigns. The good news for webmasters is that there are several free (and paid) programs out there to help you track sources of traffic, keywords, bounce rate, time on site, country origin, and other important information about visitors on your website. Piwik is a lesser-known free analytics program, but it has become my favorite alternative to Google Analytics. . #1. Unlike other open source web analytics software, you are able to host Piwik on your own server so that your company is the only one tracking your business’ data.

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100+ Professional Social Media Business Tools for Brands and Marketers

Total items listed: 125. Time to compile: 8+ hours. Follow @DailyTekk on Twitter to make sure you don’t miss a week! Social strategists, community managers and content programmers know that social media for business is more than just posting an update or tweeting some news–that’s for consumers. Social Media Tools List: +100 Social Media Tools. By Erik Qualman | May 22, 2012 Tired of social media experts answering Hootsuite and Radian6 when asked about social media tools?

Social Media Tools List: +100 Social Media Tools

Well dailytekk.com does an incredible job of keeping a social media tools list. So we’ve taken their incredible list and have mashed it with a few favorites of our own. Percolate – Turns brands into curators. Creates content for the social web.HubSpot – Inbound Marketing > marketing hub for small biz (equalman fav)awe.sm – Analytics for social media.TweetReach – How far did your tweet travel? Shoutlet - Enterprise social marketing platform.Awareness, Inc. - Publish, manage, measure, engage. Guide to monitoring social media conversations. Image by √oхέƒx™ on Flickr How & why your organization should be tuning in the social Web Most brands and nonprofits have received the memo: To succeed in today’s interconnected world, you need to listen to what your supporters and customers are saying about you.

Guide to monitoring social media conversations

With the new year still fresh, you may be finally ready to put into place a listening program to tap into the conversations taking place on the social Web about your organization or sector. Social media has blown apart yesterday’s top-down communication funnel and replaced it with a peer-to-peer model of empowered citizens and producers. How to build & manage a monitoring dashboard.

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How to build & manage a monitoring dashboard

Settle on a favorite tool and then let info & updates come to you! Target audience: Small to mid-size nonprofits, cause organizations, agencies, brands, NGOs, Web publishers, individuals. 20 free, awesome social media monitoring tools. Take the pulse of the social Web by hitting these rich targets Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, brands, businesses, NGOs, educators, independent publishers, individuals.

20 free, awesome social media monitoring tools

The 50+ Best Ways to Curate and Share Your Favorite Social Media and News Content. There’s so much information online just begging to be curated: news, social media, images, video, websites… the list goes on.

The 50+ Best Ways to Curate and Share Your Favorite Social Media and News Content

Reading great content from my favorite blogs and websites is one of my favorite down-time activities. It’s also an important part of my job as an IT Director because I need to stay on top of the latest trends, announcements and tech news. Just a few years ago, the tools I used to use for reading and consuming content were Google Reader, StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious… you know all the big names. More recently I’ve discovered some great new tools to read and share my favorite content which I’ve included here in this list. Whether you are a person who just likes to stay on top of the latest news, a blogger like me who needs a way to organize the vast amount of information that comes my way or a person who just enjoys sharing what they find with others you’ll love this list.

Social Media & Text Analytics using Open Source Tools — The Fifth Elephant — HasGeek Funnel. Objective Discuss how you can start analyzing Social Media Data today using Open Source Tools like RapidMiner or Open Source Languages like Python, R and PERL.

Social Media & Text Analytics using Open Source Tools — The Fifth Elephant — HasGeek Funnel

Description You don't need the most expensive Text Mining Tools or even expensive software to start doing Text Analytics. This session will first cover Social Media Analytics and the range of work that can be done in analyzing Social Media Data. We will then look at a simple framework for doing text analytics and a demo of the same using Rapid Miner. Requirements Laptop and a version of Rapid Miner and R downloaded if you want to follow along. Speaker bio Randhir is an Online and Social Media Analytics Professional with over 10 years of Analytics and Retail IT consulting experience. Sanjeev Mishra is the Co-Founder of Convergytics and has over 13 years of analytics experience with companies such as GECIS, TNS and Mu Sigma and has consulted with the likes of DELL and The Home Depot. 10 paid social media monitoring services for nonprofits. Tweet Twitter data galore: A screen grab from ReSearch.ly.

10 paid social media monitoring services for nonprofits

ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Platform.