The following post comes from our Inbound Marketing Channel sponsor HubSpot. The FBI recently posted a Request for Information (RFI) for a “social media application.” But, it was really a request for a social media monitoring application. Why? Because the FBI recognizes what many inbound marketers already know and many others are discovering: There’s gold in them thar social media data.Media Monitoring
10 Things the FBI Knows About Social Media Monitoring You Can Use to Generate Leads and Close Deals
The following post comes from our Inbound Marketing Channel sponsor HubSpot. The FBI recently posted a Request for Information (RFI) for a “social media application.” But, it was really a request for a social media monitoring application. Why? Because the FBI recognizes what many inbound marketers already know and many others are discovering: There’s gold in them thar social media data.Trackur Adds Fully Managed Social Media Monitoring Services

As you may know, I’m also the CEO of social media monitoring tool Trackur. If you didn’t know that, then ta-da, I just sneaked my sponsored disclosure past you.
The Serious and Silly in Social Media This Week
This past week social media showed users a little bit of everything – from the serious to the silly. If you’re anything like me, your Twitter and Facebook newsfeeds are continuously populated with link sharing from friends (and them adding their own commentary, which is always logical). Here are some of the most common serious and silly links shared among my friends this week. What was shared most in your feeds? The Serious Obama joins FourSquare President Obama becomes one of the most high-profile peopleLessons Marketers Should Learn From A Weiner

While you would think that you shouldn’t need to write about this kind of stuff more than once, the sheer stupidity of what people do in their online lives merits some examination of what we all should be careful of in the online world.
Social Media Monitoring Gaining Ground But Has Plenty of Room for Growth
As I prepare this morning to make a presentation on social media monitoring to a group of non-profit executives at the VOLUNTEER Hampton Roads, Hampton Roads Institute for Nonprofit Leadership Conference in Norfolk, VA, eMarketer is sharing an InformationWeek Analytics report about, you guessed it, social media monitoring.Trackur Gets More Klout, Adds Twitter Influence Metrics
One of the cool features about Trackur’s social media monitoring is our InfluenceRank scoring system. For every web site, blog, or Twitter user, we’ve always shown you just how influential they are–with a simple score out of 100. With news sites and blogs, we provided further analysis with screenshots, traffic details, backlink numbers and more. Today, we’ve added a similar dashboard for Twitter users influence.48ers – A Simple yet Effective Social Media Monitoring Tool
Company owners and website owners are always looking for new ways to monitor their brand online. Well, not only is 48ers a real-time social search that can help you monitor your brand more effectively, but it can also help you monitor your name, username and even links on various social media sites. Best of all, you can monitor all of those items with a simple query in the search bar.Worldlogger Improves Their Social Media Monitoring Platform (Discount Included)
A few months ago I introduced Worldlogger, a web tool that lets you monitor your website and social media stats in real-time. Well, they’re now out of beta and have stepped it up with quite a few additional features and upgrades. Let’s take a look.
Online Reputation Monitoring: the Fastest Growing Analytics Niche in 2010
The third annual Online Measurement and Strategy Report, has been published by Econsultancy and it’s full of great news for the online reputation monitoring industry! As someone that offers social media monitoring tools, this chart brings a little tear to my eye.
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