Word of Mouth

Looking for free social media monitoring solutions? Our friends at e-consultancy have kindly listed their top 20 free buzz monitoring solutions.

  1. Addict-o-matic – Allows you to create a custom-made page to display search results.

  2. Bloglines - A web-based personal news aggregator that can be used in place of a desktop client.

  3. Blogpulse – A service of Nielsen BuzzMetrics. It analyzes and reports on daily trends within the blogosphere.

  4. BoardTracker – A useful tool for scanning and tracking within forums.

  5. Commentful – This service watches comments/follow-ups on Blog posts and similar content such as Flickr or Digg.

  6. FriendFeed Search - Scans all FriendFeed activity.

  7. Google Alerts –Daily or real-time alerts emailed to you whenever a specific keyword (chosen by you) is mentioned.

  8. HowSociable? – A simple way for you to begin measuring your brand’s visibility on the social web.

  9. Icerocket – Searches a variety of online services, including Twitter, blogs, videos and MySpace.

  10. Keotag – Keyword searches across the internet landscape.

  11. MonitorThis – Subscribes you to up to 20 different RSS feeds through one stream.

  12. Samepoint – A conversation search engine.

  13. Surchur – An interactive dashboard covering search engines and most social media sites.

  14. Technorati - Search engine and monitoring tool for user-generated media and blogs

  15. Tinker - Real-time conversations from social media sources such as Twitter and Facebook.

  16. TweetDeck - Not only a great way to manage your Twitter account, but the keyword search means you can see what people are saying about you.

  17. Twitter Search – Twitter’s very own search tool is a great resource. Can be subscribed to as an RSS ffed.

  18. UberVU - Track and engage with user sentiment across the likes of, FriendFeed, Digg, Picasa, Twitter and Flickr.

  19. wikiAlarm – Alerts you to when a Wikipedia entry has been changed.

  20. Yahoo! Sideline – A TweetDeck-esque tool from Yahoo. Monitor, search and engage with the Twittersphere.



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