ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we report on President Obama's (non)-use of Twitter, take a look at the past decade in the media industry, review the latest statistics about blogging, question if Oxford Dictionary should've chosen "unfriend" as its word of the (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter's own homepage is still the most popular tool for users to update their status on Twitter. Around 46% of all updates are made directly on the site. Social media analytics and monitoring service Sysomos analyzed 500 million tweets it collected over the past 5 months and found that TweetDeck is the most popular third- (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Bloggers, muckrakers and news fanatics, lend me your ears. It's entirely possible that we've discovered one of the best approaches to media monitoring since RSS itself. My mother always said, "You'll never get what you want unless you ask." But with adaptive feed application Parse.ly, that simply isn't true. Rather than for (Read More)
TechCrunch:
For marketers, social networks offer a goldmine of data about topics and brands. But there’s actually too much data to easily parse for most companies to get at the most valuable data. That’s why IDG has built Social Scout, a new service powered by Networked Insights.The idea is to be able to filter through some of the nois (Read More)
The Guardian:
Conference considers whether Twitter gives journalists more information - or forces them into publishing facts too hastilyThe director of the BBC's global news division, Richard Sambrook, opened the discussion about journalism and Twitter by saying: "Twitter is good at gossip, promoting people's interest, and entertaining, (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Four Ethiopian domestic workers are thought to have killed themselves in three weeks. Lebanon must protect these womenThey mop floors, take out the rubbish, walk the dog, buy groceries and care for the children, the elderly or disabled. Many a well-to-do and lower middle class Lebanese family relies on migrant domestic work (Read More)
Social Media Explorer:
Companies, brands and their respective marketing and public relations managers are clamoring to know what people are saying about them on the web. I would offer that social media monitoring has been the single-largest technology-based industry boom in the last 10 years, though search engine optimization firms might win that (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
These are critical times for Ofsted, the children's services inspectorate. Inspectors are, for good reasons, never entirely popular with the people they inspect, but when private irritation turns into public displays of contempt it's time to worry. This is now happening, and Ofsted is in serious danger of losing the trust a (Read More)
Mashable!:
Last month, we reported on a survey that found that 84% of social media programs don’t measure return on investment (ROI). The comments in that post indicated that a lot of individuals and businesses want to be able to measure the ROI of their social media strategies and campaigns, but they don’t know where to start.Compani (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Last week, Wired reported that In-Q-Tel, the CIA's technology arm, is investing in Visible Technologies, the social-media monitoring company, which tracks over half a million Web sites everyday. Many of the sites that the company surveys include blogs, online forums and open social networks, which can render public opinion (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Check out the events on tap in this week's events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is a weekly feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, as good a (Read More)
Mashable!:
I’ll admit it: my normal workday only helps perpetuate a number of typical blogger stereotypes. So, when I was asked to film a series of videos sponsored by UPS that involved me getting dressed up (ok, business casual), shaving, and being in front of a camera all day, it certainly sounded like a big break from the norm.Afte (Read More)
paidContent.org:
As if posting a stream of status updates to hundreds of strangers on Twitter doesn’t have enough “big brother” potential ... Visible Technologies, the WPP-backed social media monitoring firm, has picked up an undisclosed amount of funding from In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment arm of the U.S. government. In-Q-Tel serves th (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Huh, turns out the tinfoil-beanie crowd was right all along: the CIA *does* want to read your blog posts, follow your Twitter updates, and muck around in your Amazon book review history. Snip from Wired Danger Room exclusive:In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into (Read More)