This morning I read Dave Chaffey's post on Online brand reputation or listening software - a review of 26 tools and found a lot of richness in the list, including the idea of segmenting the list of Social Media tools by function (see below):
Category 1 - Wide scope analytical and reporting tools for all aspects of monitoring customer opinions and campaign effectiveness Category 2 - Blog based influence assessment tools, designed to gain access to influential customers/commentators Category 3 - PR and media management tools for reputation management and assessing opinion forming influence Category 4 - Social media tracking and intervention including free tools Category 5 - Fraud protection, security and threat detection Category 6 - News media tracking Category 7 - Social media within sales management - for identifying B2B prospects
I don't think the categories are hierarchical, and the list is far from complete, even though most of the top solutions are on it.
Also excited about 2010 and what Dave Chaffrey predicts Social Media Tools will evolve into:
- Capability for image tracking, video, logo, photos etc
- Integration with workflow, ERP systems, etc
- Range of report formats, styles, configured as 'products'
- Chart and analysis integration - mapping, 3D, tag clouds, visualisation techniques, etc
- Actionability -direct intervention in dialogue, development of advertising, web campaigns, etc
The points I highlighted are big ones, and match up with what I predicted in the Future of Social Media Monitoring presentation I gave in London last month (see below) ..
Meanwhile, here's the list - i'll take a closer look soon, I just wanted to make sure my readers knew about this list of 26 Tools for Social Media Monitoring.
Name |
Positioning |
Analysis |
Reporting/Products |
* Radian6 - in partnership with Web Trends | Social media monitoring platform for marketing, communications and customer support professionals
Billing is tied to results, not the parameters used |
Sentiment, engagement, reach, inbound links, vote count or comment count
Post and source tags to create a "social web caller ID" system, and segment results for in-depth reporting and analysis Supports filters |
Flexible dashboard and as-it-happens alerts enable monitoring of all forms of social media and related comments in real-time
Results can be filtered by country, by source and by media type, within date range or for pre-set days Email, IM, communication tools WebTrends integration filters social media content with web stats like site visits, conversions, or purchases |
Trupulse(Visible, founded 2005; strategic partnership with WPP) | Online brand management - Repair, protect and proactively promote brand or corporate reputation in search engine results | Powered by the proprietary truCAST engine - discovery, collection, processing, analysis and engagement architecture for social media content | truREPUTATION - online reputation management service
truPULSE - RSS based web monitoring truINSIGHT truVOICE - allows participation with consumers truSEARCH - SEO tool |
* Scout Labs | Relatively low cost 'self service product'
Costs range from $100 to $750 a month (Feb. 2009) depending upon how many platforms, or "workspaces," and how many concurrent text searches clients need, there is no limit on nos users per workspace |
Proprietary tools | Create graphs, forward, bookmark, initiate discussions, download graph data or copy graphs
The dashboard offers real-time metrics for buzz volume, customer sentiment, and competitive share of voice across the web Agencies can 'white label' the reports |
SEER (VML, part of WPP group) | Defines a brand 'ecosystem' | System built on
1) a focused crawler; 2) custom dictionaries and parsing; 3) a web-based control panel; 4) a three-dimensional visualization tool Constantly updated |
Builds a model over time of the patterns of communication within the target audience
Every relationship is mapped out three-dimensionally, with 'hot spots' and tag clouds to identify areas of interest |
* Nielsen Buzz Metrics | Real time market intelligence and brand metrics, with expert input and support | Text-mining, analytic technologies and
expert analysts |
30 report formats
Customisable dashboard Threat Tracker alerts by email Brand Tracking, Audit and Scorecard reports for regular information Brand Association maps |
Feedback Ferret | Voice of Customer Platform to gather, analyse and report on customer feedback | Contextual analysis engine extracts topics, themes and sentiment from unstructured feedback; can build in customer data files | Interactive dashboards supplied; capability to share across organisation |
Interwoven(acquired by Autonomy 2009) | Interwoven web content management uses Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) to provide a powerful solution for profiting from social media | Uses Meaning Based Computing technology; IDOL gives clustering, pattern matching techniques, and probabilistic modeling | Dashboard data delivered within the content management system
TeamSite, LiveSite, and Optimost automatically deliver dynamic, targeted, and optimized content and offers to consumers based on social media sentiment and emerging trends |
Nielsen BlogPulse | Blog tracking and management for individuals and bloggers as well as corporates | Based on machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques
Search by link (URL), keyword, phrase, boolean query, and date range |
"Performs a unique kind of text mining on blog data to help reveal topics and themes within blog entries every day"
Statistical reports, produced daily Trend analysis and charting Blogger profiling Conversation tracker |
* Market Sentinel | A range of tools for sentiment monitoring, identifying key influencers and campaign buzz tracking. | Based on machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques
Search by link (URL), keyword, phrase, boolean query, and date range |
"Performs a unique kind of text mining on blog data to help reveal topics and themes within blog entries every day"
Statistical reports, produced daily Trend analysis and charting Blogger profiling Conversation tracker |
Buzz Logic | Blog based media agency - tracking influential conversations on the web and aligning ad campaigns
Costed on monthly subscriptions |
Algorithms calculate the expertise and credibility of conversational media, and map the social graphs emerging around each site's content
Based on analysis of: -traffic and number of inbound links |
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* Cymfony(acquired by TNS Media Group in 2007) | PR management tool with customer service and marketing applications, especially crisis management | Powered by Cymfony's InfoXtract(TM) technology, an information extraction and analysis engine used by US government and intelligence agencies
Proprietary Natural Language Processing engine automatically identifies, classifies, quantifies and benchmarks important people, places, companies, concepts, relationships, and events in documents from both traditional and social media. Based on detailed grammatical analysis of the text |
Orchestra - a model centred on metric views, reports, and clippings. With interface tools to help users build custom views, create and share reports and structure complex queries to sort though massive amounts of data
Cymfony's Professional Services team delivers customized reporting services, specializing in integrated media measurement programs with corporate six sigma initiatives |
Marchex Reputation Management
(in development) |
Customer insight tool for SMEs | Standard charts on positive, neutral or negative reviews | Checks business listings
Identifies keywords for differentiation Competitor comparison Capability to share positive news and reviews with customers and employees through email, Twitter, Facebook, Digg or other sources |
Reputica | Reputation management and recruitment support
Claims to be able to predict where stories will go as well as track where they came from |
Powered by iFeed, a discovery and aggregation engine for social media
Self-learning capability Inbuilt ranking and scoring system with sentiment analysis |
Dashboard capability for online reputation monitoring
Search related tool for recruiters |
Jodange | Opinion based reputation management
Targets publishers of online content |
Uses linguistic analysis to extract opinion data from documents and identify the opinion holder and topic each opinion expression
Ignores factual statements to focus on opinions and score sentiments |
Defines the relationship between Opinion Holder, Opinion, and Topic
Capability to correlate opinions to outcomes over time |
Converseon | Social media agency with proprietary tool for listening | Advanced proprietary natural language processing and related technologies plus human interaction from the set-up phase through to report delivery and engagement | Conversation MinerTM
Conversation Manager Conversation Monitor SERM Analyzer |
* Who's Talkin | Free tool for individuals or organisations wanting to monitor their own or competitors presence in social media conversations | Search and sorting algorithms | Search strings |
* Social Mention | Free social media search and analysis platform that aggregates user generated content | Analysis based on:Strength is phrase mentions within the last 24 hours divided by total possible mentions.
Sentiment ratio of mentions that are generally positive to those that are generally negative. Passion is most frequently used keywords and number of times mentioned. Number of mentions by sentiment. Reach the number of unique authors referencing your brand divided by the total number of mentions |
Search strings
Delivers daily social media alerts |
* Trackur | Tracks sentiments and trends in social media mentions with alerts via email and RSS | Boolean keyword based query with option to exclude some sites | |
* Viralheat | Viralheat aims to be a one stop shop for understanding social media
Effectively a search engine Monthly subscription (10 profiles for $10 and 50 profiles for $40) |
User generated profiles. Operate on a proprietary, custom-built cloud host. Includes Compete and Quantcast numbers. | Generates dashboard charts
Insights delivered in real time Exports to Excel or pdf Daily email alerts can be shared |
NetBase Consumer Insights | Market and consumer insights in real-time to identify actionable consumer opinions | Content Intelligence is able to read every sentence of every document, linguistically understand the sentences, and provide market and consumer insights | |
Envisional | Fraud and piracy protection for logos and trademarks
Patented A31 visual search technology |
Built in filters with user defined parameters
Unique, patented search technologies alongside a team of experienced analysts "sentiment monitoring" system, using fuzzy logic and self-organising maps |
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KnowEm | Brand protection and security | Identifies users of brand names and their contact details
Tracks multiple metrics to determine which networks are gaining (or losing) traction in the social media landscape |
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Reputrace(Repumetrix formerly CoreX) | 'All purpose' but focus on security applications | High speed reporting on latest mentions and references
Reporting tool sends summaries from the site that include company logos |
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Mark Monitor | Brand security, particularly domain monitoring | ||
FiltrBox | News tracking system | Looks at multiple dimensions to generate a score (1-10 scale) for each article
Can be user defined |
Rapid alert system
Email, web dashboard, and custom RSS feeds (FiltrFeedsTM) Daily briefing emails |
Newssift | News media based search tool exclusively focused on business | Identifies the people, companies, places and connections common across all stories; scores sentiment within stories | User defined queries |
NewsLive(ebiquity) | Completely automated digital service plus all the benefits of a traditional, tried-and-tested manual clippings agency | The Newslive editorial monitoring service 3 different scores, allocated by trained readers. Scores can be weighted according to the size of audience | An email alert is sent as soon as a relevant news story breaks; the latest headlines and content transcripts are included by a team of specialist news readers and précis writers working 24/7
Users can track the scores |
Inside View | Identifies B2B sales companies prospects from intelligence gained from social media and traditional editorial sources | Continuously aggregates and analyzes personal, executive, and corporate information | Delivers contact lists, exports leads, manages watch lists, |
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