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Scout Labs Launches Powerful Social Media Monitoring Tool

by · February 18, 2009

Jason Falls

Jason Falls

A new player emerged in the social media monitoring and measurement circles Wednesday as Scout Labs officially launched after almost two years of development and testing. The self-serve, web-based tool is priced for small to mid-sized business and brands, includes natural language processing techniques for sentiment and tone scoring and has its foundation in product development.

“I come from both a marketing and product background,” Jennifer Zeszut, Scout Labs CEO told me in a phone conversation Wednesday night. “My fundamental vision for this product is that I want to help companies build and sell better products.”

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What Flying Can Teach You About Social Media

by · May 30, 2008

Wright Model A Flyer flown by Wilbur 1908-09 and launching derrick, France, 1909

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Orville and Wilbur Wright were nuts. I’m talking crazy, cuckoo, bats in the belfry nuts. They took some bed sheets and 2X4′s and somehow thought, “We can actually project ourselves through the air with those and live to tell about it.”

They were nuts. But they were right.

I took off from O’Hare last night and realized that companies who have tread the untested waters of social media to this point were also nuts. “Turn our brand over to the consumer! Let random members of the public make comments on our website! Let front-line employees, not CEOs or communications VPs respond to customer complaints or issues!”

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