Useful no-cost or low cost tools for listening online. Whether it be your stakeholders, issues you care about, or what people said about your event, these tools will help you stay on top of what conversations are happening online.
This is an update of the Social Media Listening Toolbox put together by Matt Garcia.
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  Bing
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add to my toolboxMicrosoft's search engine, formerly "Live", Bing has advanced search options and display features that give a searcher more information on the search results page.
RSS feed of search results by adding "&format=rss" to the URL
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  Commun.it
      in 2 toolboxes 
add to my toolboxAnalyzes your twitter community to help you better understand relationships such as influencers and who to follow/unfollow
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  Facebook
      in 114 toolboxes 
add to my toolboxFacebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you.
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  Followerwonk
      in 3 toolboxes 
add to my toolboxTwitter analytics tool that lets you explore your social graph
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  Google Alerts
      in 45 toolboxes 
add to my toolboxHave Google email you notifications of news, new web results, or new blog posts containing your desired search term.
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  Google Blog Search
      in 6 toolboxes 
add to my toolboxBlog search engine.
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  HootSuite
      in 22 toolboxes 
add to my toolboxA website that helps manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets, and measure your success.
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  Netvibes
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add to my toolboxCustomizable dashboard page that allows you to read RSS feeds and check e-mail. Can be used to construct media tracking dashboards.
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  sparkwise
      in 4 toolboxes 
add to my toolboxOpen Source Analytics dashboard tool - specifically designed for causes.
Can monitor different social media channel as well as feeds from RSS
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  Storify
      in 3 toolboxes 
add to my toolboxTell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos by searching social networks and then dragging and sequencing elements into a story format.
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  Topsy
      in 4 toolboxes 
add to my toolboxA search engine powered by tweets, can be useful for analytics and trends as well.
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  tweetlevel
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add to my toolboxSearch and analyze twitter data around topics, hashtags, links, and users.
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  Twopcharts
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add to my toolboxFind the most influential active Twitter users for cities around the world, as well as for widely spoken languages.
 

