free tools for social media research and measurement
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An update of my presentation from 2010 at Social Media World Forum, with the tools I'm now using on a regular basis.TRANSCRIPT
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Free tools for social media
Research and measurement
Beth GranterMay 2013
@bethgranterbrilliantnoise.com
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Hello! I’m Beth Granter. I’m a digital consultant at Brilliant Noise
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Brands I have worked with
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- Useful for pitch research, and to validate plans
- Good when budgets are low
- Good in addition to paid tools
Why free tools?
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- Tools I use for research
- Tools I use for measurement
- What and how, not so much why
I’m going to talk about my toolbox
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Tools for research
- To discover:
- who is talking about a topic - influencer mapping
- what is being said
- what vocabulary is being used
- when and where relevant conversations happen
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Tools for measurement
- To baseline, assess current amount of buzz
- To track changes
- Specific to platform vs all public online content
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- Pages from the UK
- Blogs > Homepages
Google’s search filters
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- Pages from the UK
- Discussions > Recency
Google’s search filters
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- Check timing & popularity of terms
- Competitor analysis
- Regional interest
- Folksonomy (what words people really use)
Google trends
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- Within Google Display network...
- What sites does your target audience visit?
- How likely is your audience to visit a particular site vs average for that region? e.g. YouTube
- What % of your audience is reached by each site?
Google ad planner
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- Find top tweets and links
- Include advanced boolean queries (search terms)
Topsy
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- Find ‘experts’ based on how much they tweet about a topic
Topsy
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- Measure volume of followers over time
- Up to three months history free
- Paid options to export data & track ongoing
Topsy
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- Measure estimated reach of past 50 tweets matching search term
- Additional volume available on paid accounts
- Top contributors
- Timeline of tweet volume
- Most retweeted tweets
- Download XLS or PDF
Tweetreach
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Twittercounter
- Measure volume of followers over time
- Up to three months history free
- Paid options to export data & track ongoing
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Cadmus
- What is trending within your network - amongst people you follow
- What is trending within a target influencer Twitter list
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Tweriod
- When do your followers tweet?
- When do you get the most @replies?
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Followerwonk
About your followers or those you follow:
- Location
- Follower count
- Account ages
- Recencies of tweets
- Total tweets
- Languages
- % retweets within tweets
- @mentions outbound
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Followerwonk
About your followers or those you follow:
- Authority
- Gender
- Most active hours
- bio wordcloud
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Twiangulate
- Twitter user search by complex boolean query (keywords) including regional limit
- Search within a particular users’ followers, list, mutual followers
- Sort results by followers
- Export list of Twitter usernames
- Visualise results as network map
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Tweetstats
- When did you tweet? By month, day and time.
- Who do you @mention the most?
- Who do you retweet the most?
- Word cloud of your tweets
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Facebook insights
- measure:
- contact aquisition (total fans)
- reach
- engagement (interactions)
- audience insight (demographics)
- traffic sources
- export data to CSV
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Web rank Chrome toolbar
- Google Page Rank
- Alexa stats
- Inbound links
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Word count chrome plugin
- Count characters of selected text
- Great when drafting tweets within web email
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Google Analytics
- Traffic sources > Social
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Keeping track of blogger outreach
- Google docs
- Name, subject, site URL
- Twitter URL, Facebook URL
- Google Page Rank
- Inbound Links
- Alexa % UK traffic
- UK daily unique visitors
- Twitter followers
- Facebook fans
- Notes
- Date contacted
- Date responded
- Response URL
- Address
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Keeping track of metrics
- audience size
- reach
- engagement
- advocacy
- What are YOUR objectives?
- Use the customer decision journey to define these
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Thanks!Links to these tools and more at http://delicious.com/bethgranter/tools
@bethgranterbrilliantnoise.com
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