Want to know what others are saying online about you or your library? Reputation management can be made easier with one or more of these products:
- tweetbeep – It’s like Google Alerts for Twitter! If you love Twitter, you’ll love TweetBeep! Keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your company, anything, with hourly updates! You can even keep track of who’s tweeting your website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL (like bit.ly or tinyurl.com). Now, how cool is that?!
- Icerocket – Searches the popular social networking websites including blogs, Tweets, news, images etc. all from one page.
- twazzup – A real-time Twitter analytics service that displays a lot of data about any given keyword, as well as a list of the most influential Twitter users that use this keyword.
- socialmention – Real-time social media search and analysis
Spotting posts where you are mentioned allows you to thank the people who say nice things about you. It will also give you the ability to respond to negative comments so you can spin the issue into something positive.
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There are many sites that will hep you monitor your online presence. It’s just a matter of trying them out and finding the one easiest for you. Need more suggestions? Try Collecta, whostalkin and Pipl. Which one do you use?
