Archive for the ‘Buzz tracking’ Category

Problems with social media technologies

October 16th, 2009 — Mark

In the summer Hyper Happen’s Asi Sharabi wrote an anguished post about dealing with the output from social media dashboards.  Luke Brynley-Jones, who is putting together a panel at Monitoring Social Media next month, asked me to talk about it.  At the risk of “scooping” my contribution, this is what I wrote:
My sense is that [...]

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SES London

February 13th, 2007 — Mark

Mark Rogers is going to be at SES London this week, giving a talk about how brands can make sure that they get their own messages out online, even (or especially) during major crises. If you plan to be there and would like to meet up, please get in touch through the website or [...]

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How to monitor blogs: it’s about knowing the questions you want answered

December 28th, 2006 — Mark

When we first speak with a brand manager or a PR person they normally ask us these questions:
“What are people saying about my brand in blogs?”
“Can you help me monitor that?”
We say: we can help you monitor blogs, but first you need to do to help us define the questions you want answered. Monitoring [...]

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Blogging4business

October 30th, 2006 — Mark

On Wednesday I presented at a fascinating training morning run by e-Consultancy’s Craig Hanna along with Blogging4business’s Matthew Yeomans. The agenda was to educate the audience about blogging as a phenomenon and to give them a sense of what it could teach them about their own customers and how they could use blogging and [...]

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Can you blog your way out of a crisis?

October 30th, 2006 — Mark

I am addressing a CBI conference this week in Birmingham, UK, where the agenda is to discuss Crisis Management and digital media.
When we established Market Sentinel two years ago we thought that online monitoring and response would be a leading part of crisis management. As time has gone on and we have learnt [...]

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