This entry in our ongoing exploration of social media measurement firms focuses on Collective Intellect of Boulder, Colo. The firm, which began by providing monitoring and intelligence to financial firms, has evolved into a player in the marketplace of social media intelligence gathering. Using a combination of self-serve dashboard facilitation and human analysis and insight [...]

Measurement geeks should ease up on the caffeine. They won’t need it for a couple days. Flickr Pro users now have access to web metrics on their images. The announcement was made this afternoon on the Flickr blog. Here’s a snapshot of my stats:

The flat line must be prior to their crawlers added to measure. [...]

Last month I shared some meager website analytics and other influence factors for Social Media Explorer that resulted from the real, live networking opportunity presented at SMX Social Media in New York. My post illustrated the importance of doing the ole’ grip-and-grin and how actual networking is more effective than social networking (which I’m defining [...]

Asking three basic questions of a small handful of social media measurement vendors should be an easy enough task to fulfill. Unfortunately, outreach to vendors normally means initial contact with someone in sales. And if you’ve ever encountered a salesperson that will simply give you the short answers to three basic questions, you’d be the [...]

Selecting a vendor for anything can be mind-numbing. It can also be frustrating if you instigate the process with outreach asking for information. This is the first in a multi-post miniseries on selecting a measuring mechanism for my agency’s social media efforts. The process of narrowing down our choice has been an interesting microcosm of [...]