July 2013 Archives

July 30, 2013

LeadSift Launches Social Media Monitoring Tool for Sales

LeadSift announced the general availability of their platform for identifying, scoring, and engaging with sales leads in social media. LeadSift is also available through SalesForce Sales Cloud and the HootSuite App Exchange. SMA: LeadSift blog post...

July 30, 2013

Bottlenose Takes $3.6 Million to Support Enterprise Version

Bottlenose announced that it has received $3.6 million in a series A investment round led by ff Venture Capital, with participation from Lerer Ventures, Transmedia, Advancit, and others. The new investment is targeted to support the launch of Bottlenose Enterprise,...

July 30, 2013

New Papers, 30 July 2013

Recently released research and white papers: Case Study: the Social Studies Group & Netnography, Brandwatch What’s Engagement? How Data Driven Marketers Are Crushing Content Marketing, Infinigraph How to Respond to Online Reviews, ReviewPro...

July 25, 2013

Software Updates, 26 July 2013

Recently announced software updates: Engagor Filter by US state. Also, UI, team performance metrics. Piqora Instagram and Tumblr analytics. Viralheat Facebook targeting, new dashboard UI....

July 23, 2013

New Papers, 23 July 2013

Recently released research and white papers: Guide to Social Media Monitoring, CIPR State of Social Media: China, Dachis Group Social Media Monitoring for Customer Service, Our Social Times / Sentiment...

July 18, 2013

Software Updates, 19 July 2013

Recently announced software updates: Adobe Adobe Social 3.0: Flickr, Foursquare, Instagram and LinkedIn integration, predictive publishing, mobile UI, reporting, collaboration. Linkfluence Radarly: threshold-based alerts. Local Measure New charts, summary card by network/page, top customer cards, email additional report recipients. Luminoso...

July 18, 2013

Telligent Buying, Merging with Zimbra

Telligent announced that it has acquired the assets of Zimbra from VMware, and that Telligent and Zimbra will merge to form Zimbra, a new software company offering a unified social collaboration suite. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed....

July 16, 2013

New Papers, 16 July 2013

Recently released research and white papers: Effective Content Marketing Using Influence Intelligence, Appinions Social Media Across the Business: Six Retail Use Cases, Brandwatch Ready to Rebrand, Crimson Hexagon State of Social Media: Brazil, Dachis Group 3 Ways Social Media Command...

July 11, 2013

Temenos Launches Risk-Aware Social Media Monitoring Platform

The banking software specialist Temenos introduced SocialComply, a social media management platform with compliance, archiving, and risk-management features for US financial services firms. SMA: Temenos press release product sheet (PDF)...

July 11, 2013

Software Updates, 12 July 2013

Recently announced software updates: Brandwatch Author gender and account type for Twitter data. Engagor Minute-scale time resolution in charts and filters. Simply Measured LinkedIn analytics. Traackr Spanish-language influencer search. Trendpo Newly available on Flipboard....

July 9, 2013

New Papers, 9 July 2013

Recently released research and white papers: The World’s Top 50 Fashion Brands in Social Media, Room 214 and Infinigraph 7 Reasons You Need a Social Media Command Center, NetBase...

July 5, 2013

Software Updates, 5 July 2013

Recently announced software updates: Sentinel Projects Skyttle 2.0: improved sentiment analysis, XML annotation, cross-document keyword and entity matching, multiple requests per API call, Russian language support, new paid usage plans. New request/response formats. Treato New bookmark feature....

July 2, 2013

Precise Matches Social Media, Mainstream News

Precise introduced Media Platform+, a media-monitoring and -analysis platform that combines social media and mainstream news coverage. SMA: Precise announcement...

July 2, 2013

New Papers, 2 July 2013

Recently released research and white papers: 7 Social Media Marketing & Sales Strategies Executives Must Know in 2013, Infinigraph The Science of Social 2 (ebook), Lithium Ultimate Guide to Content Marketing & Influencer Strategy, Traackr Marketer’s Guide to the New...