Monitoring for mentions of your brand for strictly reputation purposes has evolved into listening to conversations with the intent of either real-time engagement or customer insights development. Over the last three or four years we’ve seen a number of new tools hit the market that helps us further our understanding of how our customers behave online. Flashy dashboards, ability to incorporate other data sources, mobile applications, and workflow management are all things we’ve seen developed as monitoring platforms have become true listening platforms.
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Friday Five: Key Learnings from Radian6’s Social 2011
April 15, 2011
Last week I attended Radian6’s first user conference, Social 2011, and I wish I could write a Friday25 today because there were so many experts and learnings. Other attendees have already done a great job summing up the experience and

Brands Taking Action On The Social Web
March 23, 2010
There are many examples today where brands are listening to their customer’s feedback and making decisions. eBay (client), for example, recently launched PayPal Student Accounts which stemmed from continued frustrations among their customers who wanted family accounts. Intel simply gave away t-shirts to a community that was begging for them. Starbucks (client) not only solved a serious business problem of coffee spillage,…

