If like me you use a lot of Google alerts you may find that your email inbox is becoming clogged with alerts that you never seem to have time to read. I recently discovered a way that not only clears your inbox but makes it easier to manage your alerts. Using Google Alerts in conjunction with Google Reader makes the process simple.
If you are not using Google Alerts already check out our video on how to get started, we recommend using it in conjunction with a Gmail account as it makes it easy to sync it to your Google Reader.
In the last of our series of videocasts about Social Bookmarking we look at our favorite: Stumbeupon. It’s not only a great place to bookmark your sites, and sites you like but it’s a wonderful research tool. Follow us on Stumbleupon.
Have you ever wondered how effective your Facebook page is? How does it compare to other pages.
This week we show you Vitrue Evaluator, a tool which rates your page and allows you to compare it with other pages.
Before you start to rate the effectiveness of your Facebook campaign it is important to know what it is you want to measure. Is it the number of interactions? The type and quality of these interactions? Or is the number of ‘Likes’ all important to you, if so are the right people ‘Liking’ your page?
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It can be hard to judge how well you are doing on twitter, you can measure the number of times your links get clicked, you can see how many retweets you have or how many replies but how does this compare to other users. Klout brings all this information together and gives you a score and some easy to read analysis. You can also check the Klout scores of other twitter users and see how you compare.
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These two excellent free web applications allow you to monitor your brand, competitors, industry or any topic online. Simple to use, they search the social web for mentions of any keywords you choose to search for.
Social Meniton: The most comprehensive social media search tool we’ve found that not only throws up results but measures sentiment and other data relating to your key words. It also allows you to download a csv (excel) file so that you can track progress over time.
Who’s Talkin: Not as detailed information but it’s faster to throw up results and allows you to switch quickly between one network to another.
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Listorious a list of lists, a directory of Twitter lists. Search tags to find lists of interest and add your own lists.
and Addict-o-matic highly addictive fun way to see results from all across the web on one page. You can customise and share your page.
Hootsuite is a great tool for managing your social media. This week’s video blog shows you how to integrate your Twitter lists into your Hootsuite Dashboard and how to create a search column to keep on top of the latest tweets in your area of interest.
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