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If you’ve been following the BP spill saga (and who hasn’t?) you’ve probably come across a Twitter account by the name of @BPGlobalPR, an unofficial but hugely popular account created by an – up to now – anonymous commentator. The account has gathered a huge following (far more than BP’s official Twitter account) with its [...]
Infographics .. love ‘em or hate ‘em, the following is an interesting one courtesy of Flowtown showing the top 50 companies in the US as ranked by their use of social media networks.
Based on data from a NetProspex survey encompassing 100,000 employees from across the ’states, the rankings are based on the average number of [...]
IBM is introducing a new social media monitoring tool that it says will measure consumer sentiment from data gathered on Twitter, blogs and other web services and networks.
The software, called the SPSS Modeler data mining and text analytics workbench (*phew!*), will use natural language processing to analyze everything from product names and industry jargon to slang and [...]
SAS has announced the launch of an enterprise social media analytics tool.
This new product, which is offered as a hosted solution, features an analytics engine that can code online sentiment at the same level as human analysts, with greater than 90% accuracy, according to online measurement expert, Katie Payne.
SAS is used to crunching large amounts of data [...]
In this week’s round-up, a few stories that we were too busy doing other more interesting things to write about at the time didn’t have time to cover as they broke:
- Google launched the Google App Marketplace. The App Marketplace ‘offers products and services designed for Google users, including installable apps that integrate directly with [...]
Adam Brown, Coke’s head of social media, has published their guide for staff involved with SM. Along with a video, embedded below, there’s also a simple 3 page guide which you can download here (PDF)
To boil the guide down even further, the ten major points are as follows:
Be Certified in the Social Media Certification [...]
The very cool Gary Hayes from Personalized Media has created a head-spinning Flash app (embedded below) that gives a great visual impression as to the speed of growth in social networks and associated data. Of course, the numbers aren’t absolute but nevertheless are an amazing indication of what’s happening around the globe right now and [...]
I’ve been dancing around this post for some time now, having saved and re-saved it in draft form so many times I fear it’s getting somewhat dog-eared.
You see, I’m not a fan of ‘top 10′ lists or crystal-ball gazing predictions of near-future trends: combining the two, even less so. Mostly they’re a passing interest item, [...]
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