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 stat (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 mi (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 u (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 (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 journalis (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 o (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 technol (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 conte (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 com (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 measur (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 (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), shavi (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 amou (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 (Read More)
Danger Room:
America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cas (Read More)
The Guardian:
Facebook is the most viewed site in Britain, according to Ofcom researchThe online social networking boom shows no signs of abating, with almost twice as many British internet users having an online profile than two years ago (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Scout Labs, which provides a web-based platform which companies use to monitor online chatter about their products, has raised $4 million in a round of funding, according to an SEC filing. The startup said earlier this month (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Interbrand recently released its 2009 list of the best 100 global brands. Social media monitoring and analytics firm Sysomos took a closer look at this data today. While Interbrand bases its list on criteria such as financial (Read More)
Mashable!:
Clay McDaniel is the principal and co-founder of social media marketing agency, Spring Creek Group. Find him via @springcreekgrp on Twitter.By now, most consumer marketers know they could be using Facebook, Twitter, blogs, an (Read More)