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As you might imagine with the launch of our CGMDashboard we've been getting into a lot of conversations about what exactly "measuring CGM" really means. And what it means is a lot of manual analysis, despite all the assumptions about automation. Yes you can certainly go in and scrape content off blogs to see what people are writing. But what you aren't getting automatically is what's in the comments -- and that can contain far more important information than the original blog. To monitor comments you need to go to the actual blog, open it and read and analyze the comments. It's time consuming and a PITA, but that's how we do it, and that's how we would recommend anyone else doing it. Anyone have any better ideas?
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- Client Service Insights...(CSI/Season 2)
- Does It Sell Stuff?
- Measurement Matters - Get the buzz on social media and PR measurement and analysis from Metrica
- Sure Woman
- RepMan
- Onalytica Blog
- cgm
- Run Free or Die
- The Diva Marketing Blog - Marketing and Corporate blogging for innovative companies
- The Marketing Excellence blog by Eric Kintz
- Guest Columnist: Losing an Arm vs. Losing a Pinkie.
- /Message: The Social Scale of Social Media: The Conversational Index
- New Communications Review
- Marketing Roadmaps: PR Measurement
- POP! PR Jots: A Day of Acquisitions
- Some Damn Good Life Experience(through the eyes of Stephanie): "Adventure is the pursuit of life." -D.R. Wiarda
- David Hendersons guide to media
- Lubetkin's Other Blog
- Marketing Roadmaps: PR Measurement
- Holmes Report Blog
- Communication Overtones
- PR Evaluation: Reality or Pipe Dream?
- Mike Paul's Blog, The Reputation Doctor
- a shel of my former self
- gapingvoid: fred wilson is a genius
- Kristin Zhivago's Revenue Journal
- Doc Searls' IT Garage | News, ideas and real world stories about how IT folks solve their own problems
- Andrew Lark
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- For those who bear the burden of introducing me at a conference...Katie Delahaye Paine (twitter: KDPaine) is the CEO and founder of KDPaine & Partners LLC and author of, Measuring Public Relationships, the data-driven communicators guide to measuring success. She also writes the first blog and the first newsletters dedicated entirely to measurement and accountability. In the last two decades, she and her firm have listened to millions of conversations, analyzed thousands of articles, and asked hundreds of question in order to help her clients better understand their relationships with their constituencies. People talk, we listen..
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- LeverWealth
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- The Measurement Standard, KDPaine & Partners' Newsletter of Public Relations Measurement
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An excellent point - blogs have information that can't be scraped, including sitemeter stats, trackbacks, links to other posts, and the general tone of the overall blog if it has multiple writers.
Not to mention that the growth of splogs (spam blogs) is crowding the more popular tracking software as e-spammers figure out how to game search engines for PPC ad revenue.
Posted by: Jim Durbin | April 12, 2006 at 12:32 PM