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    - Nathan
Lists
- Analysts of social media
Industry analysts who cover social media and Web 2.0. - Bloggers of social media analysis
Blogs associated with social media analysis companies around the world. - Blog monitoring the election
Election analysis (not just US) by social media analysis companies.
- 4 Ps for social media
4 easy steps for getting started. - Customer service is marketing
PR alone can't fix a problem that the operation created. - Corporate social media specialists and Defining social media relations
How do you organize to engage effectively with your markets through social media? - Crash course on Wikipedia
Look, but be careful about how you touch.
- Forms of social media analysis
6 categories of service offered by social media analysis companies. - Human vs. machine analysis
A major source of disagreement, but the black & white question is misleading. - Blogs and communities
If your idea of listening to social media is "blog monitoring," consider a broader view. - Visual text analysis
Quick examples of different ways of visually summarizing text. - The ethics of listening and Ethics, open sources and CI
Some people have ethical concerns about monitoring social media, but the law (US) appears to allow it.
- Sorting out social media measurement
Before insisting on standard metrics, understand what you want to learn by measuring. - Derivatives in media measurement
Thinking about math and trend analysis.
Tags: social media marketing