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If you're wondering when today's news digest is going to appear, take a look at Social Media Analysis. SMA has all of the latest news from the listening business, plus opinion and the latest from company blogs and press releases. And more to come...

Introducing SMA

Do you read the news digest I post here every week? Since June 2007, it's been an outlet for items that didn't quite rate their own posts, and if it got companies in the social media analysis market to pay attention—well, that was no accident. At this point, though, they're crowding my recent posts list, so I'm moving them to a new home: Social Media Analysis. If you're interested in the listening business, I think you'll like it.

Lucky for me beta is the fashion
SMA is more than a news site. The plan is to create a resource for everyone interested in the market. In this initial release, it has five main sections:

  • News
    Company and product launches, investments, leadership changes, upcoming events, new papers... Everything you're used to from the Friday news digest, but in its own home—and no more waiting for the end of the week.

  • Commentary
    A separate blog section pulling content from the Net-Savvy Executive. This section will grow to include more contributors (interested?).

  • Scanner
    A tag feed with commentary; this will grow to include more contributors.

  • Press releases
    A sidebar listing press releases from any vendor who provides an RSS feed (hint).

  • Company blogs
    A sidebar listing recent posts from vendor blogs (companies, not individuals).
Feed me!
RSS is an important component of SMA—I've used my RSS and Delicious tricks to build some of its sections, and the site provides several feeds for readers. If you like press releases, for example, you can subscribe to the aggregated press release feed. The systems running behind the scenes will keep subscribers up to date as new sources are added.

Starting with Social Target's database of social media analysis companies, I looked through 182 company sites to find 89 company blogs and 19 PR feeds. I used Dapper and Page2RSS to make synthetic feeds for many more, but so far, the result isn't clean enough for SMA. As more companies offer PR feeds, I'll add them to the system.

Plans to grow
Today's SMA is the first take. In addition to new contributors, I plan to add more sections, such as white papers, research, events, and jobs. I'm thinking about some more ambitious developments, but that's what the future is for.

Now, go. Subscribe. And send me your news. :-)

News from the companies of social media analysis.

Companies and services

  • 12 February - BuzzLogic announced a strategic alliance with Walnut Hill Media. The partnership, which includes a minority investment by Walnut Hill, will focus on business development in the advertising and media business. press release

  • Software updates: Trackur
People
  • Dan Vetras joins Visible Technologies as CEO. Vetras was previously president and CEO of Talisma. Former CEO Adam Selig transitions to a new role as divisional president of strategic alliances. press release

  • George Emmanuel joins EmPower Research as sales director, US. Emmanuel was previously the western regional services sales & marketing executive at Computer Associates. press release
New research and papers
  • Pew Internet & American Life Project released Twitter and status updating (PDF). The key finding in the memo is that 11% of US Internet users use Twitter or other services (potentially including social networking sites) to update status messages.

  • Razorfish released Digital Mom (PDF), a report developed with CafeMom on technology usage by mothers. via Guy Kawasaki

  • Nielsen introduced Economic Current (PDF), a new monthly report on retail trends and consumer confidence globally, with regional analysis and country breakouts.
Events

News from the companies of social media analysis. Football, anyone?

Companies and services

People
New research and papers
Events

News from the companies of social media analysis. Launch week, apparently.

Companies and services

  • 27 January - MightyBrand launched their social media monitoring and engagement platform, previously known as BlueSwarm.

  • 28 January - BuzzGain launched the public beta of their "do it yourself PR" platform. Note the promised integration with CRM tools.

  • 13 January - BuzzDing entered private beta for their online reputation management platform.

  • 24 January - BuzzNumbers announced the opening of their Tokyo office and the launch of the Asian version of their platform.

  • 27 January - CyberAlert announced the recipients of its annual PR grants to not-for-profit organizations in the US and Canada. press release

  • 26 January - Island Data has changed its name to Overtone. The Insight RT product has been renamed Open Mic. press release
New research and papers
  • Quirk eMarketing released the second edition of their eMarketing Textbook. The book is available in print or as a free download.

  • The Pew Internet & American Life Project released Generations Online in 2009 (PDF). They had me at "Contrary to the image of Generation Y as the 'Net Generation,' internet users in their 20s do not dominate every aspect of online life."
Events
Call for papers

News from the companies of social media analysis. Are you making it easy to pay attention to your company with an RSS feed of your news? (I know, it's on my to-do list, too.)

Companies and services

People
New research and papers
  • CIC released its IWOM Watch review for the second half of 2008 (PDF). The report focuses on the Beijing Olympics, the growth of social networks, and the convergence of social media and e-commerce in China.
Events
Call for papers

News from the companies of social media analysis.

Companies and services

People
New research and papers
Events
Call for papers

News from the companies of social media analysis. I'm catching up from the holidays, what's new with you?

Companies and services

  • 15 December - Clarabridge announced a partnership with Teradata to combine the companies' text analytics and data warehouse technologies. press release

  • 18 December - Omniture announced the addition of Visible Technologies as one of 15 new Genesis application providers. The partnership allows Omniture customers to integrate social media data from Visible with Omniture's web analytics data. press release

  • 7 January - VibeMetrix announced the start of beta testing for their AlertRank add-on for Google Alerts.

  • 4 January - TechCrunch reported that SkyGrid plans a free version of their dashboard.

  • Software updates: Radian6, Techrigy
New research and papers

Events
Call for papers

News from the companies of social media analysis. Things are quiet going into the holidays.

Layoffs are spreading, but social media analysis companies are hiring. Use the discount code 4QSMAV for $10 job listings through the end of the year. Job board / Post a job

Companies and services

Call for papers
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News from the companies of social media analysis. Were you expecting a year-end slowdown?

Companies and services

New research and papers
Events
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