Archive for the ‘web monitoring’ Category

United Airlines – old news is bad news

September 9th, 2008 — Mark

Web monitoring throws up anomalies. When is a story marked as new and date-stamped? When the page is updated? Or when it is crawled?
Since the process is totally automated errors can occur. For example when an old news item about United Airlines filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection got picked up [...]

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The blogosphere as an information market

February 23rd, 2007 — Mark

Saturday’s FT ran a piece by Ellen Kelleher about the rise of personal finance blogs. In it the former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget was quoted:
“The blogosphere functions the same way the stock market does–by incorporating millions of individual opinions into a general consensus. By itself, the influence of any one blogger is small, [...]

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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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Rules for blog response

May 9th, 2006 — Mark

A very good pull-together on how to respond to negative blogs from the folks at Multi-Channel Merchant. It suggests that a good initial response is to monitor what is being said, and recommends a thoughtful approach to response. Here are some excellent, clear rules on how to blog, courtesy of Stephan Spencer [...]

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3 step guide to the blogosphere

April 5th, 2006 — Mark

Yesterday we attended the Blogging4business conference in London. It was very ably put together by Matthew Yeomans and Bernhard Warner of Custom Communications – two journalists who have put together training packages and strategies for communications professionals moving into blogging.

With this in mind, we designed a one pager Your 3-step guide to the [...]

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