Comments on: Social Media Monitoring on the Cheap

By: Jeremy Bencken

Jeremy Bencken — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:02:37 +0000

Hi Wendy,

If you put your name in quotes, that should do the trick:

“Foundation for Global Collaboration”

That will be an exact phrase match. You might consider dropping “and Peace” if sometimes people refer to the organization without that. You wouldn’t want to miss those mentions.

Hope that helps!

Thanks,
Jeremy

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:58:34 +0000

Hi Jeremy,

Thank you very much for writing about this. As a start-up non-profit, our main concern is costs, so this is a great way for us to track if and how people are talking about us.

I would like to ask you though, what’s the best way to track our name (Foundation for Global Collaboration and Peace) without returning too much noise, since it’s a multi-word name. (I tried putting it in quotes and still got about 10:1 noise to real content ratio and the content was 99% stuff from our own blog.)

Thank you in advance for your advice.
Wendy

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:39:17 +0000

Social Media Monitoring is really interesting, but there are so many different tools mentioned in this post and I don´t think I will have time to check them all.
What would be the best tool, if I want to check especially effectiveness of twitter?

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:27:49 +0000

Great Post my friend, really i’m impressed – i search all day which company i need to choose to get those services, while i read your post i understand that they just provide the same stuff that i can make for free, all they have is better graphic – and who need graphic today if twitter works their way with 140 characters,

Nice Job
@ipolitics

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By: Tom Smith

Tom Smith — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:44:41 +0000

You can do social media monitoring by using my free OPML maker to create a file that you can import into Google Reader. It lets you choose which meta engines to use and add a list of search phrases.

http://everythingability.com/make_opml_form/

p.s. Interestingly, some meta engines work better for different sectors/industries so you’re right, you have to twiddle a bit.

By: Chris Treadaway

Chris Treadaway — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:50:16 +0000

Great post, Jeremy. I have looked at a few of the social metrics tracking technologies and I have yet to find one that beats good ol’ customized Excel reports. Sure it may take a half hour every morning to pull data and another half hour to analyze #s, but you have to be hands on at a certain point IMO.

Chris
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