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BackType Stops Searching Blog Comments.
Millions Blot Tears.

Written by Matt on February 1, 2011 — Leave a Comment

Your Favorite Blog Comment Search Service is Gone Backtype, everyone’s favorite blog comment search engine is no longer a blog comment search engine. This is terrible news for those of us who construct our own social media dashboards by pulling in search RSS feeds. There isn’t an alternative free service that matches BackType’s capabilities. This […]

Posted in Social Media, Tools

Dashboarding Guide from Netvibes

Written by Matt on August 12, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Our favorite dashboarding tool Netvibes has put together a Dashboarding Guide that inventories Monitoring and Analytics tools available to track your presence online (similar to putting together a Social Source Commons Toolbox). It’s nice to have a document describing these tools while explaining their individual integration options with Netvibes. Tools are categorized by “Monitoring”, “Listening” […]

Posted in Social Media, Tools

I’m Monitoring Social Media… Now what?

Written by Matt on June 11, 2010 — 5 Comments

We All Want To Be HeardPhoto Courtesy of tifotter With all of this “listening” talk about finding out when people are talking about you online (“Building a Social Media Dashboard” & “Social Media Listening“), the natural question that comes up almost immediately is “So what do I do when someone talks about us online?” I […]

Posted in Social Media

Building a Social Media Dashboard with Netvibes

Written by Matt on May 4, 2010 — 20 Comments

With all of this talk about Social Media Dashboards, I thought I would condense Aspiration‘s Building Your Own Social Media Dashboard slide deck into a blog post to show you how easy it is to start monitoring social media outlets for what you care about. What the hoozeewhatsit is a “Dashboard”, anyway? A dashboard is […]

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Netvibes Introduces Instant Social Media Dashboards

Written by Matt on April 13, 2010 — 2 Comments

As you may know, we here at Social Source Commons and Aspiration are big proponents of putting together a Social Media Dashboard to monitor what people are saying about you online. The basic idea was that social media sites post RSS feeds for searches. This means that you can search for a term like your […]

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