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Social Media Week Begins: Social Analytics Leading To Today
The big day is finally here and today we kick off Social Media Week in 12 cities around the world! Sheldon from Sysomos here and I’ll be your guide to social media monitoring and analytics for this exciting week. If you’ve been following the global blog for the past couple of months I’m sure you’ve…
In a recent blog post called The Problem with Automated Sentiment Analysis from Fresh Networks, a social media agency, they evaluated a few sentiment tools and their results are quite similar to what we’ve found in a number of our own experiments: - About 80% of posts are neither positive nor negative. - Sentiment tools…
Guest Author: Jack Mason is a team member of IBM Strategic Programs Team. You can follow him on Twitter at @IBMSocBiz and @JackMason. Testing a new approach for collaborative intelligence gathering This experiment in realtime research is a collaboration between Social Media Week and the Strategic Programs team in IBM Global Business Services, and a…
I loved the article by Nick Carr a few years ago that asked the question – Is Google Making us Stupid? Nick likened the use of Google and other tools as training us how to “power browse” and not really read effectively. So I have been thinking about a parallel article that would apply in…
Hello again social media enthusiasts. Sheldon from Sysomos here once again to take a peek at the social media scene in one of our Social Media Week cities. This time on tour of Social Media Week cities we’ll be heading up to Russia to see what’s going on in social media in Moscow. Using Sysomos MAP, our…
Yesterday, our team released our views on the top social media stories of the year. This list covered news items ranging from the Arab Springs to the Royal Wedding to Rebecca Black and to social media’s growing IPO’s. We’ve shared our views, now it’s time to hear from you! Do you agree or disagree with…
Will Uber-Popularity Ultimately Become Twitter’s Kryptonite?
Brought to you by MWW GROUP Can you remember life before Twitter? What began as a forum for 20-somethings to share the most mundane aspects of their lives has morphed into a 140-character Jack-of-all-trades. People win things on Twitter. We have the Twitter Diet. Twitter Dating (Flitter), Twitter Job Hunting and networking. It’s changed…
What defines a friend? Last week, we took a look at how online platforms have changed that notion and what repercussions can come from making our associations known publicly. During our #FriendDebate, we debated whether people can be penalized or even criminalized for their online friending activity. With more of our lives intersecting, how are…
During the second week of July, Bogota became a trending topic in social media in Colombia; and it was not something that happened by chance. A whole movement was set in order to create a different view of the city. Technology has almost deleted the gap between massive media and common citizens who have decided…
A Look Through Social Media at Our Host Cities: Buenos Aries
We’re in the final stretch now social mendia fans. Only one week away from Social Media Week! Sheldon from Sysomos here once again with a sneak peek at one of our final host cities for next week. This post I’ll be taking us on a journey down to South America to check out the social media scene…