Social Media Monitoring Notes, Pt Deux

Alexandra Gebhardt provided a list of important social media search sites, and focused her comments on how to reach the key influencers – those who have websites, blogs and are high traffic people. They are the VIPs to watch. Here are some of her social search sites:

Socialmention.com
Addictomatic.com
Whostalkin.com
Spy.appspot.com
Samepoint.com
Hootsuite.com
Topsy.com
Howsociable.com

One of her best notes was this wiki, which is a great starting point for learning about social media monitoring from kenburbary.com.

There are many paid services, but they are only as good as the people who are doing the rating, in particular those that provide trending or sentiment rankings. Expect to spend as much as $30-$50K per year for these type of monitoring tools.