using free tools to monitor the web: how to collect information that aligns with your business goals
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Slides from the three-hour workshop I lead at the Social Media Summit in Toronto on April 30, 2009. The workshop was titled, "Using Free Tools To Monitor The Web: How To Collect Information That Aligns With Your Business Goals"TRANSCRIPT
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Using Free Tools To Monitor The Web:How To Collect Information That Aligns With Your Business Goals
Social Media SummitApril 30, 2009Mark Goren | PlantingSeeds.ca
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TODAY’S AGENDA
• The different reasons to listen to online conversations
• Understanding the concept of RSS feeds and how to set up a RSS reader
• The importance of keyword selection
• Knowing where to listen to online conversations
• Preparing to respond and initiate online conversations when necessary
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DEMONSTRATIONS
• RSS + newsreaders
• Twitter Search
• Other Twitter Tools: URL shorteners, BackTweets
• FriendFeed Search
• Comment tracking
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WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?
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After 2/3 full days at this conference, what does social media mean to you?
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REALLY, WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?
• Certainly not the static web
• It’s a living, breathing series of conversations
• That travel from one site to another to another to another to another...
• And it’s people driven, not company driven
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CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
More specifically:
• User-generated content
• Not traditional media
• Grassroots and unregulated
• Super speedy
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PLANTING SEEDS + SOCIAL MEDIA
Three ways to think about it:
1. You’re planting seeds across the web
2. You’re asking others to plant seeds on your behalf
3. People are planting seeds – good or bad – for you
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“Being in social media doesn’t mean anything if you’re not listening.” – Sharon Hunter, my friend
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SOCIAL MEDIA STARTS WITH MONITORING
1. Listening 2. Responding 3. Initiating
L R ITaking baby steps, getting comfortable, finding your way.
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Listening, Responding, Initiating
LR IIt’s all one activity, an ongoing process, an approach to commit to
SOCIAL MEDIA STARTS WITH LISTENING
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WHY MONITOR ONLINE CONVERSATIONS?
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Who here is already monitoring?
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WHY MONITOR ONLINE CONVERSATIONS?
1. To understand what people are thinking in near real-time
2. To gain insights you can apply to your branding and messaging
3. To plan your online communications strategy
4. To gain business intelligence
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WHY MONITOR ONLINE CONVERSATIONS?
1. To understand what people are thinking in near real-time– Free focus group research– Gauge what people are thinking “right now”
2. To gain insights you can apply to your branding and messaging– Use insights to improve what you’re already doing– Offline + online
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WHY MONITOR ONLINE CONVERSATIONS?
3. To plan your online communications strategy– To say, “Thanks!”– To say, “Ah, not quite”– To help others
4. To gain business intelligence– Generate leads– Learn about competitors, industry– Product development
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WHY MONITOR ONLINE CONVERSATIONS?
Basically to change perceptions about your brand and humanize it
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WHY MONITOR ONLINE CONVERSATIONS?
To think about:
• This is not a numbers game
• To create relationships, you have to read
• Conclusion: Be in it to learn, not to count
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WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS INFORMATION?
Learn
Plan
Create
Adapt
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WHAT TO LISTEN FOR
• The basics
Company name
Company URL
Campaign keywords
Public facing figures
Product names
Product URLs
Competitors
Critical issues
Source: http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=WhatToMonitor.HomePage
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WHERE TO MONITOR
• Blogs
Technorati
Google Blog Search
Bloglines
Blog Pulse
Ice Rocket
Comments
• News
Media mentions
News wires
Press release pickups
Google news search
• Social Networks
Twitter Search
FriendFeed Search
Wikipedia
SocialMention
Message Boards
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WHERE TO MONITOR
General search engines
• Roll up your sleeves
• Set up “Alerts” (Demonstration coming up...)
• Read files, for example: PDFs
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Remember, you are who Google says you are!
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MONITORING TOOLS
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WHERE TO START
1. Choose your keywords
2. RSS + Newsreaders
3. Expand your tool box
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1. Choose your keywords
– Define listening objectives
– Keyword strategy development
– Trial and error
– Adjust and listen
WHERE TO START
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2. RSS + Newsreader (or Google Alerts)
– Pull keyword search results into an aggregator
– Or have them sent by email
– Alerts that you choose
– You’re not visiting all these sites, they’re visiting you
• LET’S DEMONSTRATE!
WHERE TO START
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WHERE TO START
3. Expand your tool box
– Twitter Search
– Other Twitter Tools: URL shorteners, BackTweets
– FriendFeed Search
– Delicious
– SocialMention
– BoardTracker
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THE MOVING CONVERSATION
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You create a blog post
• A case where you’re listening, responding and initiating conversations
1. People comment on the post at your site
2. People link to your post on Twitter and Facebook
3. People link to your post on their blog
4. People bookmark your post on Delicious
5. People aggregate their content on FriendFeed
A PRACTICAL EXAMPLE
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You create a blog post
1. People comment on the post at your site
– Moderation alerts– BackType/CoComment/Disqus
2. People link to your post on Twitter and Facebook
– Twitter Search– BackTweets– Status/posted links– Facebook fan page
3. People link to your post on their blog
– Keyword monitoring– Google Blog Search, Technorati, Social Mention...
A PRACTICAL EXAMPLE
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You create a blog post
4. People bookmark your post on Delicious
– Subscribe directly on Delicious– Social reader
5. People aggregate their content on FriendFeed
– FriendFeed search
A PRACTICAL EXAMPLE
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BUT REMEMBER, YOU’RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WRITING ABOUT YOUR BRAND
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THAT’S WHY YOU HAVE TO LISTEN.
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FINAL THOUGHTS
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THE NEXT LEVEL OF MONITORING
• Why go with a paid service?
1. More in-depth analysis
2. Watch trends develop
3. Drill down to in learn even more about:
– The influencer– Overall sentiment
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AGAIN, WHY MONITOR?
• Intelligence = power
• Know the good and bad
• Change perceptions, humanize
• Plan your response
• Plan how you’ll initiate
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AGAIN, WHY MONITOR?
• Be in the game
• Next generation will only be on the web
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MORE DEMONSTRATIONS?
PAID MONITORING?
QUESTIONS?
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ABOUT MARK GOREN
Social Media Consultant
After 10 years working in marketing as a copywriter at several traditional advertising agencies, Mark turned his attention and creative thinking to the field of social network marketing, all so he can help businesses reach people on their terms.
Since starting his consultancy, Mark has helped launch a makeup brand at a national department store chain, been retained to develop, plan and brand a careers website for the Canadian trucking industry, and formed strategic partnerships with local agencies.
Clients he has worked with throughout his career include: Air Canada, Air Canada Technical Services, Michelin North America (Canada) + BFGoodrich Tires, Aeroplan, Alcatel, and The Gazette (Montreal’s English language daily newspaper). Non-profit work includes an award-winning campaign for The Youville Centre (Ottawa), Home Hospice (Toronto), The Old Brewery Mission (Montreal) and The Gazette Christmas Fund (Montreal).
Mark is also particularly proud to have contributed to the groundbreaking “The Age of Conversation”, an unprecedented book project that saw over 100 bloggers contribute one-page chapters related to conversational marketing. Proceeds from the book, which launched July 16, 2007, are earmarked for Variety, the children’s charity. To date, over US$11,000 has been raised. A second collaborative effort is due to be launched in September 2008.
In January 2008, Mark was invited to contribute to the MarketingProfs Daily Fix blog, the world’s fifth leading marketing blog, joining industry luminaries from all different marketing disciplines.
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ABOUT MARK GOREN
Mark can be reached:
• By phone: 514-969-1725
• By email: [email protected]
• On LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/markgoren
• On Twitter: http://twitter.com/markgoren
• On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark_Goren/565765090
• On Skype: TransmissionCC
• On MSN: [email protected]
You can also read + comment on Mark’s blog:
http://plantingsseds.ca
Or even subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/planting_seeds