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PR Firms Build New Tools for Social Monitoring, Metrics

While public relations practitioners have long been in the business of tracking media coverage for their clients, a growing number of firms are beefing up their digital media monitoring and measurement capabilities and developing new and innovative tools that bring together both traditional and social media content under one umbrella. The latest example of such an effort was announced earlier this month by Omnicom's Fleishman-Hillard, Inc., which  [...]

Tweetlevel Measures Relevance, Not Followers

PR-firm Edelman has developed a new tool that measures an individual's importance or "gravitas" on Twitter using metrics that go beyond a mere tally of followers. The tool, Tweetlevel, joins a growing number of third party data mining and analysis tools developed to tease out user trends and influence on the popular microblogging site. Importance and Trust  Tweetlevel does take into account how many people are  [...]

Three of Four Execs Replace In-Person Events with Virtual

Three-fourths (76%) of corporate executives say they currently use, or plan to use, virtual events to replace physical ones in 2009. Most predict a steep decline for in-person trade shows, conventions and training seminars, according to a survey by ON24, Inc. (  [...]

Predictive Analytics Invade Email, Subscriber 'Personas' Targeted

Email marketing solutions firm iPost has launched a production release of Autotarget, its predictive analytics tool. Autotarget analyzes data from a company's business channels, segments customers into like-buying "personas," then enables marketers to send targeted emails to each group. It works by defining customers that responded either favorably or poorly to certain offers or campaigns, then "predicting" which are most likely to be  [...]

Israeli Start-Ups Look to Silicon Valley for Expansion

Entrepreneurs from Israeli web start-ups have come to Silicon Valley seeking money and connections, reports CNET. The group arrived for the IsraelWebTour 2008 conference, an annual event that took place at Microsoft's offices in Mountain View. It included investors from myriad Silicon Valley companies, as well as independents. Companies touting applications for everything -- from social search to aggregated profile feed  [...]

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Plaxo Turns Little Black Book into Social Network

Address book software-maker Plaxo is planning a new service called Plaxo Pulse. This offering will open members up to online datebooks for building social networks, reports Reuters. To implement such an endeavor, Plaxo has created the first service to shar  [...]

Cross-Language Organic Search Ranker Introduced

European firm Agence Virtuelle said it launched a tool for measuring organic search results across search engines in many languages at once. The E-positioning 4.0 application keeps tabs on positions translated into Latin languages, as well as Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and even some of those tough Eastern European tongues. It compiles results into a "brand index pressure" that signifies the brand's propensity to pop up i  [...]

Microsoft to Reveal Search Tech to Selected Bloggers

eWeek (via SearchEngineLowdown): MSN Forms Search Focus Group Microsoft put together a group of bloggers and search experts to act as a sort of focus group for its ongoing search development efforts. The group, to travel to Redmond for a two-day "Search Champs" event has all the appearances of preparations for a PR campaign, but Microsoft told eWeek that it is more of a way for Microso  [...]

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RealNetworks' Guerilla Online Effort Backfires

eCommerce Times: RealNetworks Online Petition Targeting Apple Backfires RealNetworks' guerilla marketing effort to try to shame Apple Computer into allowing more open standards in its massively popular music products backfired yesterday. When an online "petition" was set up for people to air their opinions, many directed their ire at RealNetworks, posting profanity-laden screeds lambasting the streaming media company for "picking on"   [...]

AOL Cleverly Makes IM into Aid for Deaf

CNET: AOL debuts service for disabled AOL introduced a relay service for its instant messenger application that allows deaf and hard of hearing people to use their buddy lists as a directory for placing teletypewriter or TTY phone calls. Users can type directly into the instant messenger application, rather than using another application or piece of hardware.   [...]

Yahoo, Microsoft Claim Innovation Culture Too

MarketWatch: Yahoo searches for perfection It took Microsoft only about a week to respond to great press Google was receiving in May about its culture of research and innovation. The Redmond software behemoth quickly mobilized its research and development folks to do show-and-tells with trade press, hoping to share in some of the new net glor  [...]