Wednesday 25 September 2013

Social Media Monitoring - QLD Health

Welcome to my blog J

We are almost getting to the destination of our Enterprise 2.0 voyage. Hooray !
Let’s keep the steam up.


This week’s task: Applying two social media monitoring tools to an organization.


I select one organization which is related to our assignments; Queensland Health.
And the social media monitoring tools which I have chosen to conduct this week’s task on are Addictomatic and Social Mention.

 

What is Social Media Monitoring?
It is monitoring an organization’s social media channels such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook page, Youtube, etc. for information about their business. It allows the organization to determine what customers are thinking or saying about their work, brand or topic. By using the social media monitoring tools, the organization can get huge benefits.



Addictomatic and Social mention
Both are an online social media monitoring tools which provides the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. (Twitter Search, Wordpress.com, Friendfeed, Ask.com News, Bing News, YouTube, Twingly Blog Search, Google Blog Search, Flickr, etc.)
First, I just simply entered the organization’s name which is “Queensland Health”. It was little bit difficult to determine the effective keyword to get the best results. The result came out in various social media channel with anything related to the keyword.



Addictomatic gives the opportunity to monitor recent conversations and contents about Queensland Health on many different channels. It allows the users can select the “Available Sources” they want to look at. It makes much easier to do the social media monitoring. Unfortunately, the Twitter box presents “No results found” message because Twitter likes to use really simple names. (“qld health”)
★★★★☆

 


Socialmention
Another useful social media monitoring platform is socialmention. The user only need to do is just enter the name of an organization like “Queensland Health”. It is really easy to use; however my experience is not as good as “Addictomatic”.  Because the layout is little bit messy but the good thing is a diagram, graph and chart on the left hand side. It is nice and clear to identify all of the results in some categories.
★★★☆☆


Addictomatic offers a bigger portfolio of different results. On the other hands, socialmention has much better features to analyze the topic.
These kind of social media monitoring tools are really important to organization’s marketing aspect.

This is my end today and I hope you enjoyed my blog post.
See you next time!



2 comments:

  1. hey,
    you have picked such a nice idea to talk about .using a diagram,chart or graph makes people got a clearly understanding of the categories ..

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  2. This is a good summary and comparison of different Social Media Monitoring channels. I'm particularly interested in your comment, "By using the social media monitoring tools, the organization can get huge benefits". It would be very helpful to your blog readers if you defined "huge benefits" and how those "social monitoring tools" are measured by the organization.

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