How Do You Listen?
Most Popular Social Media Listening Tools–Suggestions and Poll– Which Ones Do You Use?
Recently I give a presentation on building a social media listening dashboard with free resources. It was for Silicon Valley Brand Forum’s social media day at Electronic Arts. As research I asked the Twittersphere what they used. Here are their responses. Please let me know what you use.
@Steveology: What are some of your favorite social media listening tools.
- @IanBragg: Twhirl, IceRocket.com and Hashtags.org. For Facebook, I use my own profile, not a 3rd party.
- @chadhorenfeldt: addictomatic, tweetdeck, Google Reader
- @kkmett: We have been using Filtrbox, not as fancy as Radian6, but easier on the budget.
- @SashaHalima: I like Twitter…a lot. Treat it like an RSS/wire thing sometimes. It’s what I use the most, followed by FB.
- @DannyBrown: Social Mention (http://socialmention.com), Google Alerts, Twitter :)
- @Aerocles: Tweetbeep for brand mentions & Hootsuite’s ow.ly for link tracking and stats…those are the 2 that i use the most
- @ginidietrich: My fave social media monitoring tools are here! (Click To Read Her Post)*
*Gini, never one to play by the rules so why would she start now, answered me by sending a link to a great blog post on some of her favs. You should take a look at it.
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Steve Dodd
December 3, 2009
Hi Steve, this is a great survey. You may want to consider also adding http://www.omgili.com and http://www.boardreader.com. I’ve found both sites to be quite useful.
Holly Berkley
December 1, 2010
Which tool do you recommend for the small business owner? I need to monitor the social web for many clients and would love something like a Google Alerts, that is simple and quick to use, but that can dig deeper into niche social networks and forum threads where most of the hot topics seem to be happening about my clients (rather than the big social networks). Thanks for your suggestions.