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
in 2 toolboxes
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
in 17 toolboxes
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
in 1 toolbox
add to my toolboxSearch and analyze twitter data around topics, hashtags, links, and users.
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Twopcharts
in 1 toolbox
add to my toolboxFind the most influential active Twitter users for cities around the world, as well as for widely spoken languages.