Conversations about you are happening right now. Are you catching them?
November 27th, 2008
I am at The Code Factory listening to Radian6 talk about Social Media Monitoring and it’s importance.
The Motrin event of last week, Motrin baby wearing add, is what we are discussing. Within 24 hrs a mommy blogger in Colorado and was offended by it. You are not a real mommy if you don’t have the baby near you. Another blogger tweeted about it and within 24hrs 1500 bloggers, tweeters talking about it. by monday the add was pulled from their website and cancelled the campaign.
Did Johnson and Johnson make the right decision to cancel the campaign based on the sample of 2000 complaining about it based on the population of 300000 don’t like it.
This is the importance of Social Media.
Here’s what people said about this add
Radian6 social media monitoring tool has 9 languages currently. It captures the entire social media space. Capture comment and tag are tracked.
- 90-10 million blogs are tracked
- youtube, google videos 400 video sites
- images
- mainstream news cnn.com, globe and mail. RSS feeds in title and commenting activity
- forums with RSS feed or board reader
- wikis
- Proprietary web crawlerby domain, IP domain and where you are from on Blog
- A blog lifespan is three days
- Do not track mySpace, Facebook etc.. as this is private within the community
Set Topic Profile
Radian6 widgets
River of news – can set a date and timeframe. Measurement perspectives are view count, comment count, unique commentors, engagement, view count. Weeding out spam comments.
Metrics
Gives the 50 most mentioned words. It also has the ability to drill down on each word or words. Open a River of news per word.
Can export data into multiple formats
Trending graph
Track if their launch is getting any buzz and what the buzz is about. If there is an explosion and what it is about. Can open up a river of news for any point on the graph.
Influencer weighting scale
on topic post, total comment count, total unique comment, average engagement, on topic inbound links, web count. Ontopic inbound and outbound topic links. Can get social profile.
User account $100 per month per user per subscription
$500 a month for upto 10k posts.

Facebook
Blog RSS
Comments RSS