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		<title>ComMetrics weekly review: Audi to Ecofootprint via PlayStation</title>
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		<dc:creator>Urs E. Gattiker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ComMetrics Week in Review: Google launches Sidewiki, but not for Chrome, Microsoft blames Chrome for security issues and Audi teams up with PlayStation... and more!]]></description>
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<p><a title="...RTs not only have more syllables per word than normal tweets (1.62 vs. 1.58), but they're also more intellectual..." href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-09-22HowToGetRe-Tweeted-DanZarrella.gif"><img style="float: left;margin: 10px;border: 0px initial initial" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-09-22HowToGetRe-Tweeted-DanZarrella.gif" border="0" alt="graphic showing a Flesch-Kincaid test comparison for re-tweets vs. random tweets" width="200" height="275" /></a>Short link blogging coming your way this week: our <strong>top stories</strong> include <strong>Audi going PlayStation virtual</strong>, <strong>Google&#8217;s latest foray into the social media world</strong> &#8211; how to transfer control of the corporate website to Google &#8211; a feast for Internet trolls, and <strong>Microsoft blames Google Chrome</strong> for its IE browser&#8217;s security problems. Plus, check out some free tools, including <strong>SEO experts&#8217; top 5 secrets</strong>.</p>
<p>In case you missed the last six weeks’ best links:</p>
<p><strong><a title="Obama struggles regarding healthcare reform while the Copenhagen conference seems to be destined for failure regarding CO2 emissions" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-33/" target="_blank">Very useful links: Trabant to Obama via Copenhagen</a></strong> for week 33.<br />
<a title="Very useful links: UBS to Levi’s via CBS" rel="bookmark" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-34/"><strong>Very useful links: UBS to Levi’s via CBS</strong></a> for week 34.<br />
<a title="social media buzz, ethics and privacy matters ..." href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-35/" target="_blank"><strong>Very useful links: Microsoft vs. Facebook vs. SAP</strong></a> for week 35.<br />
<a title="top stories include Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud or EC2 vulnerability to hacking, 34 free social media tools, Microsoft and Bing's imminent release of a new, joint feature and how the media shift shows why BBC, AOL and the Guardian are becoming increasingly dependent on social networks like Facebook, Xing and Bebo to get traffic (view chart) and how Twitter may be named in a lawsuit after a driver's tweeting caused freeway carnage" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-36/" target="_blank"><strong>Very useful links: Data-theft to tweet-deaths via free tools</strong></a> for week 36.<br />
<a title="banning Twitter - try again NFL..." href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-37/" target="_blank"><strong> Very useful links: NFL bans Twitter, now with adverts</strong></a> for week 37.<br />
<strong><a title="ComMetrics week 38 - the best social media links you missed" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-38/" target="_blank"> Very useful links: Real Madrid to GM via Twitter</a></strong> for week 38.</p>
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<p><strong>Social Media TOOLS and GUIDES that make a DIFFERENCE</strong><br />
VERY USEFUL =&gt; Wonder how to manage your RSS channels more effectively? <a title="FREEWARE at its best - helpers you need" href="http://www.freewaregenius.com/2009/09/21/nine-ways-to-check-rss-feeds-including-some-unusual-ones/" target="_blank"><strong>9 useful ways to read RSS feeds</strong></a>, including some unusual ones like using sticky notes, Thunderbird e-mail, etc.</p>
<p>VERY USEFUL =&gt;<strong><a title="The page explains that this service 'brings together the latest industry facts and insights in one place'." href="http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats/" target="_blank">Google has created a small landing page called Google Internet Stats</a></strong> by pulling together a bunch of statistics from across the web.</p>
<p><strong>Social Media MARKETING BUZZ &#8211; Building Brand</strong><br />
<strong>#first2move</strong> =&gt; Automakers are like forum trolls &#8211; turn around and some leave Second Life, while <a title="In December of 2009, Audi Space will be expanded to include Vertical Run, a futuristic racing game featuring Audi's e-tron concept." href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10358137-48.html" target="_blank"><strong>Audi shouts &#8221;First!&#8221;</strong></a><strong> with virtual area in Sony&#8217;s PlayStation Home</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>#first2move</strong> 2009-09-23 Wednesday &#8211; <strong><a title="another social media space that corporates might have to monitor" href="http://http://www.google.com/profiles/Urs.Gattiker?hl=en#sidewiki" target="_blank">Google launched its SideWiki feature</a></strong> for Firefox and IE browsers &#8211; Chrome to follow soon.</p>
<p>Some suggest that the <strong>power is shifting from the corporate website to consumers</strong>. It remains to be seen if this will be the case BUT Internet trolls will love it for sure.</p>
<p>We just tried out SideWiki to see how it works. We got to <a title="Top 5 SEO secrets to WordPress - social media analytics" href="http://www.google.com/sidewiki/entry/102803502408794385477/id/6eMqMAgiLyVrJr60OVYe-lycQEA" target="_blank">one of our posts</a> and <a title="tweeting about a Sidewiki entry - ComMetrics - Top 5 SEO secrets to WordPress" href="http://twitter.com/ComMetrics/status/4391623037" target="_blank"><strong>it offered us the option to tweet, which we did</strong></a>.</p>
<p>VERY USEFUL =&gt; <a title="what gets re-tweeted from our blog by whom and how often NEAT" href="http://topsy.com/s?q=site:commetrics.com" target="_blank"><strong>Popular on ComMetrics.com via Twitter</strong></a> =&gt; re-tweets happen more often, nice #metrics2watch #trends2watch</p>
<p><strong>Social Media FIRST to Move &#8211; TRENDWATCH</strong><br />
VERY USEFUL =&gt; #metrics2watch  <a title="interesting read - many questions remain about methodology" href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/dan-macsai/popwise/report-nine-scientifically-proven-ways-get-re-tweeted-twitter" target="_blank"></a><strong><a title="interesting read - many questions remain about methodology" href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/dan-macsai/popwise/report-nine-scientifically-proven-ways-get-re-tweeted-twitter" target="_blank">9 tested ways to get re-tweeted by @danzarrella</a></strong><a title="interesting read - many questions remain about methodology" href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/dan-macsai/popwise/report-nine-scientifically-proven-ways-get-re-tweeted-twitter" target="_blank"></a>, nice charts, graphs, amazing &#8211; but many questions remain, such as:</p>
<ul>- <strong>which time zone is used</strong> to assign tweets to mornings or evenings &#8211; US, Europe, Asia?<br />
- <strong>how did the study control for bit.ly&#8217;s popularity</strong> &#8211; <a title="Being more effective with TweetDeck" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/twitter-being-more-effective-with-tweet-deck/" target="_blank">Tweetdeck uses this URL shortener by default</a><a title="Being more effective with TweetDeck" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/twitter-being-more-effective-with-tweet-deck/" target="_blank"></a>- of course Bit.ly will come out on top as the choice for URL shortening services when re-tweeting on Twitter, <strong> considering Tweetdeck&#8217;s popularity</strong>.</ul>
<p>=&gt;  unless you control for these effects, it is impossible to generalize from these findings &#8211; <strong>as Statistics 101 taught us</strong> =&gt; unfortunately, these things are not explained in the article #trends2watch</p>
<p>P.S. &#8211; <strong>Social Science 101 teaches us that one cannot prove something</strong> the way this article claims to:  based on the findings we  can reject or fail to reject a hypothesis but not prove it.</p>
<p><strong>Climate Change &#8211; Economic Crisis &#8211; White Papers</strong><br />
#carbonfootprint <strong><a title="The Carbon Disclosure Project's 2009 research charts what the world's largest companies are doing to battle climate change. " href="http://www.greenbiz.com/research/report/2009/09/21/cdp-2009-global-500-report" target="_blank">2009 Global 500 Report charts world&#8217;s largest firms&#8217; performance</a></strong> #metrics2watch</p>
<p><strong>InfoSec</strong><br />
#threats2watch #privacywatch &#8211; <strong>Californians <a title="unemployed, having trouble with your credit - this could deter your future job opportunities unless --- CA and the Governator show us the way" href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bad-credit-9-2009sep09,0,7610207.story?track=rss" target="_blank">support a bill to restrict credit checks during the hiring process</a></strong><a title="unemployed, having trouble with your credit - this could deter your future job opportunities unless --- CA and the Governator show us the way" href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bad-credit-9-2009sep09,0,7610207.story?track=rss" target="_blank"></a>! #things2patch</p>
<p>#threats2watch NOT =&gt; <a title="people who use Firefox or Chrome are more likely to be running the latest version of the software when compared against Safari and Opera users due to their auto-update mechanisms which require less user interaction. Internet Explorer wasn't even mentioned in the study, though we know that it relies on Windows Update and doesn't have an automatic built-in updater." href="http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/microsoft-google-chrome-frame-makes-ie-less-secure.ars" target="_blank">Microsoft is trying to convince IE7 and IE8 users that <strong>Google Chrome Frame makes IE less secure&#8230; Seriously?!</strong></a><strong></strong> #threats2watch</p>
<p><strong>Actionable Metrics: Standards, Testing and Trends</strong><br />
VERY USEFUL <a title="best metrics, social media analytics - get a handle on this challenge now" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/implement-5-tips/" target="_blank"><strong>KPI experts&#8217; top 5 secrets</strong></a> &#8211; things to watch out for, and no, it is <strong>not ROI, but&#8230;</strong> #tips2follow &#8211; hands-on!</p>
<p>VERY USEFUL =&gt; <strong><a title="social media analytics - driving relevant traffic to your WordPress blog - it works" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/best-seo-plugin/" target="_blank">Top 5 SEO secrets to WordPress</a></strong> #tips2follow</p>
<p>VERY USEFUL = &gt; <a title="find whatever code you need to find - fix errors faster - what a great source of help" href="http://wparena.com/?p=217" target="_blank">Programmer&#8217;s best friend =&gt; <strong>top 15+ source code search engines</strong></a> #tools2watch</p>
<p>VERY USEFUL =&gt; <a title="how do the search engines view your website - GREAT TOOL" href="http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/se-bot-simulator.html" target="_blank"><strong>Test your site&#8217;s crawl-ability by the search engines</strong> with the Search Engine Robot Simulator</a> #tools2watch</p>
<p><strong>That&#8217;s the way we saw things this week; now it’s your turn</strong>. Did we miss anything important? Please add it below as a comment, along with a link. Looking forward to hearing from you!</p>

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		<dc:creator>Urs E. Gattiker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calculating ROI of air conditioning makes no sense, neither does doing it for the corporate blog. We present 5 ropes to skip during KPI &#38; benchmark development.]]></description>
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<p><a title="Take action with your social media measurement and KPIs before it becomes a disaster zone - manage the metrics" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/01/2009-01-15-gasDeliveriesStoppedUkraineRussia.png"><img style="float: left;margin: 10px;border: 0px initial initial" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/01/2009-01-15-gasDeliveriesStoppedUkraineRussia.png" border="0" alt="social measurement - image - measure the flow after having taken a baseline" width="175" height="175" /></a><a title="The importance of competitive benchmarking" href="http://howto.commetrics.com/articles/best-blogs/" target="_blank">Benchmarking</a> requires setting objectives and measuring performance to see if one has surpassed it.</p>
<p>Here we propose five <a title="why is best practice not necessarily good practice?" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/good-practice-or-best-practice-what-shall-it-be/" target="_blank">best practice</a> steps to help you develop useful <strong>Key Performance Indicators</strong> (KPIs) that will result in actionable metrics for your <strong>social media activities</strong>.</p>
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<p>1. <strong>Ensure management understands the difference between operating and financial metrics</strong>.</p>
<p>As Anthony (Tony) Tjan put it in one of his recent posts:</p>
<ul>&#8220;<em><a title="The fallacy of financial metrics - we too often spend time focusing on the desired financial performance target, rather than the inputs that drive those numbers" href="http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/tjan/2009/06/the-fallacy-of-financial-metri.html?cm_mmc=npv-_-MANAGEMENT_TIP-_-AUG_2009-_-MTOD0831" target="_blank">The financial &#8216;numbers&#8217; ultimately represent the scorecard we care about, but they do not help us understand how to score</a>.</em>&#8220;</ul>
<p>It is critical to understand what the most <strong>important drivers or operating metrics</strong> are when it comes success or failure. Accordingly, <strong>what contribution for achieving the company&#8217;s operating metrics, such as higher customer retention, will come from social media efforts</strong>, must be addressed.</p>
<ul><strong>Tip 1</strong>: <strong>Define, write down and agree</strong> on the operating metrics you want to use and stick with them.</ul>
<p>2. <strong>Know your customers and derive everything, including social media activities, from that knowledge</strong>.</p>
<p>Companies produce their corporate magazine or place brand advertising in a daily to reach and communicate with the targeted audience. Improving a magazine&#8217;s or <a title="3 criteria a blog must meet to be considered a corporate blog" href="http://commetrics.com/?p=114" target="_blank">corporate blog&#8217;s</a> reading attractiveness works even better if it:</p>
<p>a) provides information that helps customers do their work smarter, and<br />
b) empowers readers to get more out of services they purchase from the company.</p>
<ul><strong>Tip 2</strong>: Choose a social media tool that at least <strong>20 percent of your current and potential clients</strong> already use themselves (e.g., would they read blog content delivered by email and/or RSS feed) AND <strong>provide content that is perceived as useful and adding value</strong>.</ul>
<p>3. <strong>Establish how a particular social media channel can drive cost reductions and/or new product/service uptake</strong>.</p>
<p>Every office building has air conditioning and nobody asks for ROI on this. Plus, ROI (Return on Investment) or ROE (Return on Engagement) are the wrong measures for social media.</p>
<p>ROI is the outcome, but we need to understand how social media efforts contribute to operating metrics. Hence, we must establish how the input &#8211; social media or <a title="3 criteria a blog must meet to be considered a corporate blog" href="http://commetrics.com/?p=114" target="_blank">corporate blogging</a> &#8211; drives the desirable output, such as lowering marketing costs or improving customer satisfaction.</p>
<ul><strong>Tip 3</strong>: Make sure your <strong>operators are clearly tied to your social media efforts</strong>.</ul>
<p>4. <strong>Focus on the 3 to 5 KPIs that represent the most important drivers of value creation for your social media activities</strong>.<br />
<a title="does the shoe fit like a glove - black high heels, men's loafers or KPIs - choose a model, the quality of the leather and the color and not only will it look wonderful but as importantly, the shoes or KPIs will feel very comfortable" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-09-07-HandMadeMenShoeWI-KEI.png"><img style="float: right;margin: 10px;border: 0px initial initial" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-09-07-HandMadeMenShoeWI-KEI.png" border="0" alt="unless the shoe fits like a glove - image of a custom made shoe" width="275" height="175" /></a><br />
We suggest that <a title="6 steps to developing KPIs for your social media monitoring" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/6-steps-to-get-started-in-measurement-of-social-media-activities/" target="_blank">a few clearly defined KPIs are more likely to assure people paying attention</a>, without getting too distracted from the real job at hand.</p>
<p>Most important, <strong>KPIs must fit your company&#8217;s needs</strong>, like <strong>custom-made loafers</strong> or black heels. Otherwise, who would want to wear or make use of them?</p>
<ul><strong>Tip 4</strong>: <strong>Assure KPI buy-ins from your stakeholders</strong>, including your team, superior(s) and possibly key clients and/or investors.</ul>
<p>5. <strong>Establish a baseline and timeline</strong>.</p>
<p>A baseline is a measurement used as a <strong>point of comparison</strong>. In turn, it can be used to asses progress against the budget or set of other objectives, including KPIs.</p>
<p>So it is advisable to first collect data whenever one begins social media monitoring to see where you stand.<br />
Benchmarking against your own past performance is the only completely relevant measure. Therefore, improvement over the course of several months is what really matters.</p>
<p>For this reason, we developed the <strong><a title="do people talk about your content on the web - in-links, PageRank, Technorati, etc." href="http://howto.commetrics.com/?page_id=10" target="_blank">ComMetrics Footprint</a></strong>, <strong><a title="how easy and user-friendly is your content-delivery?" href="http://howto.commetrics.com/?page_id=8" target="_blank">ComMetrics Health Check</a></strong>, and <strong><a title="are you connecting with your readers?" href="http://howto.commetrics.com/?page_id=153" target="_blank">ComMetrics Resonance</a></strong>, which are each made up of several measures. These allow tracking from the baseline onwards, as well as benchmarking against the <a title="what impact does your blog have on the Internet - get the biggest bang for the buck" href="http://howto.commetrics.com/?page_id=16" target="_blank"><strong>ComMetrics Blog Impact</strong></a> index.</p>
<ul><strong>Tip 5</strong>: <strong>Establish the baseline numbers and compare</strong> such as Q1 2008 with Q1 2009 <strong>in order to improve</strong>.</ul>
<p>For example, if you focus on backlinks, have they increased over the last quarter? And what about Quarter 3 2008 compared to Quarter 3 2009, what kind of improvements are seen there?</p>
<p><strong>Bottom line</strong><br />
<strong>Surely nobody tries to quantify the ROI of air conditioning</strong>. Having it when outside temperatures reach 35 degrees Celsius helps office productivity, <strong>making it a mediating factor for, though NOT a cause of, ROI</strong>. Similar reasoning applies for social media measurement.</p>
<p>Above we outlined five tips that should help in developing KPIs that make sense to your company&#8217;s decision-makers and, most importantly, provide social media monitoring that helps your company improve.</p>
<p>More resources on KPI and benchmarking:</p>
<ul>- Beth Kanter: <a href="http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/02/riffing-on-listen-learn-and-adapt-need-your-organizations-adaption-stories.html" target="_blank">Riffing on David Armano&#8217;s Listen, Learn, and Adapt: Need Your Organization&#8217;s Adaption Stories!</a><br />
- Vijay Rayapati: <a title="instead focus on the inputs that correlate or drive the desired results of the business using social media the get there faster" href="http://smm-strategist.com/2009/08/best-social-media-articles/why-social-media-roi-is-the-most-over-debated-misunderstood-topic/" target="_blank">Why social media ROI is the most over debated &amp; misunderstood topic?</a><br />
- Olivier Blanchard: <a title="67 slides - interesting to say the least - but I do not agree that ROI is the right measure - Return for Engagement or ROE maybe but its operating metrics we should worry about - those moderators that affect final outcomes" href="http://www.slideshare.net/thebrandbuilder/olivier-blanchard-basics-of-social-media-roi" target="_blank">Basics of social media ROI slide presentation</a>.<br />
- Mikey Ames The Hermit: <a title="what are you measuring to be used as your baseline matters a great deal " href="http://techhermit.blogspot.com/2009/08/alumni-association-twitter-use-baseline.html" target="_blank">Alumni Association Twitter Use &#8211; Baseline Comparisons</a>.<br />
- Beth Kanter: <a title="getting a baseline measurement before you begin" href="http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/03/whats-your-social-media-baseline.html" target="_blank">What&#8217;s Your Social Media Baseline?</a><br />
- ComMetrics: <a title="more posts addressing KPI and benchmark issues" href="http://commetrics.com/?cat=2243" target="_blank">Social media analytics and KPIs: From simple to refined</a>.</ul>
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<p>Now, it&#8217;s your turn.  What are some of your organization&#8217;s metrics, analytics and measurement stories for blogs?</p>

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<p><a title="Monday Night Football - no tweets allowed before, during and after an NFL game from the players" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-09-12NFLlogo.png"><img style="float: left;margin: 10px;border: 0px initial initial" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-09-12NFLlogo.png" border="0" alt="" width="150" height="250" /></a>Short link blogging coming your way this week: our <strong>top stories</strong> include the <strong>NFL</strong> &#8211; Monday Night Football &#8211; trying to control, if not outlaw, tweets by players &#8211; George Orwell calling, <strong>Facebook&#8217;s</strong> threat to personal friendships, <strong>Twitter</strong> finally seeing the writing on the wall &#8211; getting ready to generate badly needed revenue, how <strong>Google&#8217;s</strong> behavior-based advertising changes your search results and yet another <strong>Windows 7</strong> vulnerability to worry about.</p>
<p>In case you missed the last six weeks’ best links:</p>
<p><strong><a title="Pokemon and Yahoo join forces to make sure Nikon manages its PR better" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-31/" target="_blank">Very useful links: Nikon to Wii via Yahoo!</a></strong> for week 31.<br />
<strong><a title="Aging populations cause bigger threat to pension schemes than Berlusconi's sex games" rel="bookmark" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-32/">Very useful links: Friendfeed to Berlusconi</a></strong> for week 32.<br />
<strong><a title="Obama struggles regarding healthcare reform while the Copenhagen conference seems to be destined for failure regarding CO2 emissions" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-33/" target="_blank">Very useful links: Trabant to Obama via Copenhagen</a></strong> for week 33.<br />
<a title="Very useful links: UBS to Levi’s via CBS" rel="bookmark" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-34/"><strong>Very useful links: UBS to Levi’s via CBS</strong></a> for week 34.<br />
<a title="social media buzz, ethics and privacy matters ..." href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-35/" target="_blank"><strong>Very useful links: Microsoft vs. Facebook vs. SAP</strong></a> for week 35.<br />
<a title="top stories include Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud or EC2 vulnerability to hacking, 34 free social media tools, Microsoft and Bing's imminent release of a new, joint feature and how the media shift shows why BBC, AOL and the Guardian are becoming increasingly dependent on social networks like Facebook, Xing and Bebo to get traffic (view chart) and how Twitter may be named in a lawsuit after a driver's tweeting caused freeway carnage" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-36/" target="_blank"><strong>Very useful links: Data-theft to tweet-deaths via free tools</strong></a> for week 36.</p>
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<p><strong>Social Media TOOLS and GUIDES that make a DIFFERENCE</strong><br />
VERY USEFUL #trends2watch =&gt; USA =&gt; <strong>45 percent of employers use social media 4 screening job applicants</strong> | <a title="&quot;... candidates should work to build a positive image online by cleaning it up before a job search, networking through professional groups, keeping gripes to a minimum, monitoring what others say about you and keeping content positive and professional...&quot;" href="http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/nearly-half-of-us-employers-use-socnets-to-research-candidates-10350/?utm_campaign=newsletter&amp;utm_source=mc&amp;utm_medium=textlink" target="_blank">35 percent have rejected candidate based on SM background</a></p>
<p><strong>Economic CRISIS AND POLICY Research</strong><br />
<strong>#metrics2watch =&gt; Education is important &#8211; according to OECD </strong>- BUT measuring its effects according to money spent on education and people attending university is a bit hard to follow &#8211; see <strong>WEF World Competitiveness Report 2009-2010</strong> ==&gt; <strong>youth unemployment rates would be a better KPI</strong> to benchmark nations success regarding educational spending and policy &#8211; <strong><a title="WEF Global Competitiveness Report fails KPI benchmarking and validity test" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/kpi-benchmark-validity/" target="_blank">get the inside scoop including WEF report, OECD Excel spreadsheet and youth unemployment trend</a> #bettergovernance</strong></p>
<p><strong>Social Media BEST PRACTICE<a title="Advertising efforts, starting to get traction with Facebook and what about Twitter?" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/08/2009-08-05NeitherTwitterNorFacebookMakesMoneyFromIncreasedBizActivity.png"><img style="float: right;margin: 10px;border: 0px initial initial" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/08/2009-08-05NeitherTwitterNorFacebookMakesMoneyFromIncreasedBizActivity.png" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /></a></strong><br />
#trends2watch =&gt; <strong><a title="&quot;...  To improve our interactions, we need to change our conduct, not just cover it up. First, watch your own behavior, asking yourself before you post anything...&quot;" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204660604574370450465849142.html" target="_blank">Why Facebook ruins real friendships</a></strong>&#8230;  #trends2watch #tips2follow</p>
<p>VERY USEFUL <strong>freemium: deciding what is free and what costs</strong> &#8211; <a title="&quot;... when in doubt, err on the side of putting more features on the paid side of the divide.&quot;" href="http://www.cdixon.org/?p=700" target="_blank">easy to add features &#8211; difficult to remove</a> #tips2follow</p>
<p><strong>Social Media MARKETING BUZZ</strong><br />
Why <a title="How to convince your boss that social media is needed" href="http://blogs.position2.com/why-social-media-marketing-is-essential" target="_blank">Social Media Marketing is Essential</a></p>
<p>VERY USEFUL =&gt; <a title="what gets re-tweeted from our blog by whom and how often NEAT" href="http://topsy.com/s?q=site:commetrics.com" target="_blank"><strong>Popular on commetrics.com via Twitter</strong></a> =&gt; re-tweets happen more often, nice #metrics2watch #trends2watch</p>
<p><strong>Social Media FIRST to Move &#8211; TRENDWATCH</strong><br />
<a title="AdWords - serving users advertising related to past and current searches - behavioral-based advertising" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/07/2009-06-25AdSenseMyComMetricsAd.png"><img style="float: right;margin: 10px;border: 0px initial initial" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/07/2009-06-25AdSenseMyComMetricsAd.png" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="75" /></a><strong>#first2move</strong> &#8211; Google personalises AdWords = <a title="&quot;...When determining which ads to show on a Google search result page, the AdWords system evaluates some of the user's previous queries during their search session as well as the current search query. If the system detects a relationship, it will show ads related to these other queries, too.&quot;" href="http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=74246" target="_blank">interest-based behavioral targeted advertising for search results</a> #trends2watch</p>
<p><strong>#SMfailure USA</strong> =&gt; <strong><a title="&quot;... And players…and I mean this literally…keep your eye on the ball and not on Twitter. While cultivating relationships with your fans to shift from a fandom to a real community is important, your job is to win...&quot;" href="http://www.briansolis.com/2009/09/no-tweets-for-you-nfl-bans-tweets-before-during-and-after-games/" target="_blank">NFL wants to ban tweeting before during after games</a></strong><a title="&quot;... And players…and I mean this literally…keep your eye on the ball and not on Twitter. While cultivating relationships with your fans to shift from a fandom to a real community is important, your job is to win...&quot;" href="http://www.briansolis.com/2009/09/no-tweets-for-you-nfl-bans-tweets-before-during-and-after-games/" target="_blank"> &#8211; honest</a> =&gt; Orwell&#8217;s Big Brother returns or just plain stupid?</p>
<p>#trends2watch <strong>Twitter</strong>, the two-year-old venture capital-backed company that lets people send 140-character messages, is <strong>ramping up efforts to monetize its success in the quest for revenue</strong>.</p>
<p>2009-09-10 Thursday, it revised its Terms of Service to specify that it may run advertising, thereby <strong>keeping its options open</strong>.</p>
<ul>&#8220;<em>The services may include advertisements, which may be targeted to the content or information on the services, queries made through the services, or other information</em>,&#8221; the terms read.</ul>
<ul>&#8220;<em>The types and extent of advertising by Twitter on the services are subject to change</em>.&#8221;</ul>
<ul>&#8220;<em>In consideration for Twitter granting you access to and use of the services, you agree that Twitter and its third-party providers and partners may place such advertising on the services&#8230;</em>.&#8221;</ul>
<p><strong>InfoSec</strong><br />
#threats2watch <a title="most administrator don't allow SMB (ports 139 and 445) through their firewall, so this vulnerability primarily poses an insider threat." href="http://g-laurent.blogspot.com/2009/09/windows-vista7-smb20-negotiate-protocol.html" target="_blank">advisory for a <strong>zero-day vulnerability in the SMB2 (Server Message Block 2)</strong></a> service that ships with newer versions of Windows; specifically, <strong>Windows Vista</strong>, <strong>Windows 7</strong>, and <strong>Server 2008</strong>. Advisory contains a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploit for the flaw.</p>
<p><strong>Actionable Metrics: Standards, Testing and Trends</strong><br />
<a title="unless a business generates revenue how else can it pay the piper and finance growth?" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/freemium-works-but-beware/" target="_blank">Best business model: Free to use, pay to play &#8211; when will venture capitalists pull the plug on Twitter?</a></p>
<p><strong>2009 Social Media Calendar &#8211; Upcoming Conferences of Interest</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>September 14 &#8211; 17 ==&gt; Chicago, USA &#8211; <strong>Social Media For Government</strong>: <a title="the opportunity to learn how to engage your employees and citizens by using social media from leading government agencies and organizations" href="http://www.aliconferences.com/conf/social_media_govt0909/benefits.htm" target="_blank">How to engage your employees and citizens by using the latest Web 2.0 technologies to drive communication results</a>.</li>
<li>September 29 &#8211; October 2 ==&gt; Ottawa, CANADA &#8211; <strong>Social Media For Government</strong>: <a title="The opportunity to learn how to engage your employees and citizens by using social media from leading government agencies and organizations" href="http://www.aliconferences.com/conf/social_media_govt_canada1009/index.htm" target="_blank">How to engage your employees and citizens by using the latest Web 2.0 technologies to drive communication results</a>.</li>
<li>September 29 &#8211; October 2 ==&gt; Washington, USA &#8211; <strong>Social Media for Healthcare</strong>: <a title="The opportunity to learn how to engage your employees and citizens by using social media from leading government agencies and organizations" href="http://www.aliconferences.com/conf/social_media_govt_canada1009/index.htm" target="_blank">How to use the latest web 2.0 technologies to engage your community, improve quality of service and build your reputation</a>.</li>
<li>September 30 &#8211; October 1 ==&gt; Washington, USA &#8211; <strong>Rethinking Corporate Communications</strong> <a title="in its second year, RCC is an interactive and intimate conference for corporate, government and non-profit communicators" href="http://www.communitelligence.com/content/ahpg.cfm?spgid=355&amp;full=1" target="_blank">2009 Conference</a>.</li>
<li>October 28 &#8211; 29 ==&gt; Atlanta, USA &#8211; <strong>The eMarketing Association (eMA) &#8211; eM9-ATLANTA eMarketing Conference</strong>: <a title="Sessions contain new content and cutting edge actionable ideas and processes you can bring your entire team." href="http://www.emarketingassociation.com/2009/Atlanta/index.html" target="_blank">Forum for the very latest trends, best practices, processes and ideas that are transforming the future of marketing</a>.</li>
<li>November 7 &#8211; 10 ==&gt; San Diego, USA &#8211; <strong>Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) 2009 International Conference</strong>: <a title="Discover bottom-line boosting strategies, best practices and real-world advice that you can put to use immediately — with measurable results. Keep ahead of the competition with the latest social media and sustainability/green marketing strategies" href="http://www.prsa.org/ic2009" target="_blank">Delivering Value</a>.</li>
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<p>What is happening in your neck of the woods? Please share your conference dates by leaving a comment below or sending us an email.</p>
<p><strong>That&#8217;s the way we saw things this week; now it’s your turn</strong>. Did we miss anything important? Please add it below as a comment, along with a link. Looking forward to hearing from you!</p>

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<p><a title="View details about how user rights are being curtailed with the Windows 7 OS below under InfoSec" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-09-02FinancialCrisisDetourSign.png"><img style="float: left;margin: 10px;border: 0px initial initial" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-09-02FinancialCrisisDetourSign.png" border="0" alt="" width="100" height="250" /></a>Short link blogging coming your way this week &#8211; our <strong>top stories</strong> include <strong>Amazon&#8217;s Elastic Computer Cloud or EC2 vulnerability to hacking</strong>, <strong>34 free social media tools</strong>, <strong>Microsoft and Bing&#8217;s imminent release of a new, joint feature</strong> and how the media shift shows <strong>why BBC, AOL and the Guardian are becoming increasingly dependent on social networks</strong> like Facebook, Xing and Bebo to get traffic (view chart) and how <strong>Twitter may be named in a lawsuit</strong> after a driver&#8217;s tweeting caused freeway carnage.</p>
<p>In case you missed the last six weeks’ best links:</p>
<p><a title="business ethics, strategic service and better use of social media - lost on the White House and Adobe - Microsoft coming close..." href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-30/" target="_blank"><strong>Very useful links: White House to Adobe</strong></a> for week 30.<br />
<strong><a title="Pokemon and Yahoo join forces to make sure Nikon manages its PR better" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-31/" target="_blank">Very useful links: Nikon to Wii via Yahoo!</a></strong> for week 31.<br />
<strong><a title="Aging populations cause bigger threat to pension schemes than Berlusconi's sex games" rel="bookmark" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-32/">Very useful links: Friendfeed to Berlusconi</a></strong> for week 32.<br />
<strong><a title="Obama struggles regarding healthcare reform while the Copenhagen conference seems to be destined for failure regarding CO2 emissions" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-33/" target="_blank">Very useful links: Trabant to Obama via Copenhagen</a></strong> for week 33.<br />
<a title="Very useful links: UBS to Levi’s via CBS" rel="bookmark" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-34/"><strong>Very useful links: UBS to Levi’s via CBS</strong></a> for week 34.<br />
<a title="social media buzz, ethics and privacy matters ..." href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-35/" target="_blank"><strong>Very useful links: Microsoft vs. Facebook vs. SAP</strong></a> for week 35.</p>
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<p><strong>Social Media TOOLS and GUIDES that make a DIFFERENCE</strong><br />
VERY USEFUL #tools2watch &#8211; <a title="34 free tools (wow!) that you can use to listen to online conversations, along with 60 paid commercial tools" href="http://sites.google.com/site/socialmediamonitoringlist/social-meda-monitoring-wiki" target="_blank"><strong>Social media monitoring wiki</strong></a> &#8211; lists 34 free and 60 commercial tools for social media analytics &#8211; great help for monitoring your brand.</p>
<p>VERY USEFUL <a title="&quot;The conclusion I would draw from this is that people really should not focus on the NoFollow/DoFollow issue. Build links that are officially followable when you can, but don’t let a NoFollow attribute in a page’s links dissuade you from creating a link you would otherwise pursue.&quot;" href="http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/08/31/look-who-follows-nofollow-links/" target="_blank"><strong>Look who follows NoFollow links</strong> - test finds that both Yahoo &amp; Google follow the NoFollow links</a> #metrics2watch</p>
<p>#tools2watch &#8211; <a title="Become a member of Bing's Facebook page and get early access." href="http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2009/09/03/share-your-search-with-bing-and-ping.aspx" target="_blank">Bing will soon release the new feature &#8220;Bing and Ping&#8221;, a means to share your search results with friends</a> &#8211; you can preview by becoming a fan of <a title="some question the value of this tool and what it will bring to social networking - but wait and see" href="http://www.facebook.com/Bing" target="_blank">Bing on Facebook</a> &#8211; that nets you an invite to the pre-party.</p>
<p><strong><a title="why it fails - over and over but especially with ...." href="http://commetrics.com/articles/fails-validity-test/" target="_blank">Sentiment analysis for online content: Honest? What the benchmarks show: failure.</a></strong> #trends2watch</p>
<p><a title="what is it about automated analysis that's so controversial, and what can human analysts do to offset the advantages of automation?" href="http://net-savvy.com/executive/measurement/scaling-human-analysis.html" target="_blank">Sentiment analysis &#8211; <strong>human scaling</strong></a> #tools2watch</p>
<p><strong>Economic CRISIS AND POLICY Research</strong><br />
<a title="threat = lower crop in India for 2010 following a poor monsoon season - Kenya, Sri Lanka and India's output fell 10.5% from 2008 levels in the first half of 2009" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-09-02TeaPrices%3D10-15percentHigherNextYear.png"><img style="float: right;margin: 10px;border: 0px initial initial" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-09-02TeaPrices%3D10-15percentHigherNextYear.png" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="100" /></a><br />
<strong>Best quality tea prices</strong> rose by <strong>36 percent since January, almost twice the 2005 price</strong> (see graphic at left) #trends2watch</p>
<p><strong>Discussing Doha</strong> &#8211; <strong>Europe provides $2 a day per cow in farming subsidies</strong> &#8211; in <strong>India 70 percent of population live on less than $2 a day</strong> #bettergovernance</p>
<p>VERY USEFUL #things2read <a title="comparative analysis - READ Chapter 2 pls" href="http://www.oecd.org/document/12/0,3343,en_2649_34819_43545036_1_1_1_1,00.html" target="_blank"><strong>OECD&#8217;s new report on the well-being of children worldwide</strong></a></p>
<p><strong>Social Media BEST PRACTICE</strong><br />
<strong><a title="unless a business generates revenue how else can it pay the piper and finance growth?" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/freemium-works-but-beware/" target="_blank">Best business model: Free to use, pay to play &#8211; when will venture capitalists pull the plug on Twitter?</a></strong> #bettergovernance #trends2watch</p>
<p>VERY USEFUL &#8211; <strong><a title="Most experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the model collapses at first contact with customers." href="http://steveblank.com/2009/08/27/the-leading-cause-of-startup-death-the-product-development-diagram/" target="_blank">Why following the product development diagram could result in failure for your start-up</a></strong> #things2read</p>
<p>Study raises DOUBTS: opt-in <strong>Internet surveys&#8217; validity may not hold up</strong> against paper-and-pencil and telephone surveys &#8211; find the <a title="probability sample surveys were consistently more accurate than the non-probability sample surveys, even after post-stratification with demographics" href="http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/krosnick/Mode%2004%20online%20supplement.pdf" target="_blank"><strong>summary</strong></a> and the <a title="non-probability samples lack the theoretical underpinning on which valid and reliable survey research is based" href="http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/krosnick/Mode%2004.pdf" target="_blank"><strong>full paper</strong></a> here.</p>
<p><strong>Social Media MARKETING BUZZ</strong><br />
VERY USEFUL =&gt; <a title="what gets retweeted from our blog by whom and how often NEAT" href="http://topsy.com/s?q=site:commetrics.com" target="_blank"><strong>Popular on commetrics.com via Twitter</strong></a> =&gt; re-tweets happen more often, nice #metrics2watch #trends2watch</p>
<p><strong>Social Media FIRST to Move &#8211; TRENDWATCH</strong><br />
<strong>#first2move</strong> &#8211; <a title="updates by Region or Interstate (freeway) - the N.C. Department of Transportation now offers travel information for motorists and ferry passengers on Twitter.com" href="http://www.ncdot.gov/travel/twitter/" target="_blank">North Carolina Department of Transportation <strong>providing traffic reports via Twitter</strong>: what about risk management - micro-blogging causing accidents by drivers reading tweets while driving?</a>. Traffic reports for motorists and ferry passengers by region or interstate highway. #trends2watch</p>
<p><strong>InfoSec</strong><br />
#threats2watch  <a title="a side-channel attacker looks at indirect information related to the computer - the electromagnetic emanations from screens or keyboards, for example - to determine what is going on in the machine" href="http://commetrics.com/download/9/" target="_blank">RISK MGMT: <strong>Stealing data from Amazon&#8217;s Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2)</strong>. Research reports way to attack the cloud using side-channel.</a> (300.5 KiB, pdf)<br />
Amazon not ready to talk about this threat this week, but this is a <a title="computing in a cloud - who owns your data - who is responsible for what exactly? Do you know?" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/possession-9-tenths-of-the-law/" target="_blank"><strong>systemic risk that cannot be ignored by Google, Microsoft or Amazon</strong></a>, since all three offer these cloud services, nor by clients depending on these providers &#8211; <strong>what if your application is hacked this way</strong>? #trends2watch</p>
<p><strong>Actionable Metrics: Standards, Testing and Trends</strong><br />
<a title="unless a business generates revenue how else can it pay the piper and finance growth?" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/freemium-works-but-beware/" target="_blank">Best business model: Free to use, pay to play &#8211; when will venture capitalists pull the plug on Twitter?</a></p>
<p>VERY USEFUL <strong><a title="great set of slides - addresses key issues" href="http://www.slideshare.net/thebrandbuilder/olivier-blanchard-basics-of-social-media-roi?src=embed" target="_blank">social media ROI 67 slides</a></strong> #things2read http://bit.ly/8VDWI BUT operating metrics are more important than ROI&#8230;.</p>
<p>#trends2watch <strong>social network sites bringing much  traffic to media sites such as BBC, the Guardian, AOL News</strong> (see graphic below).</p>
<p><a title="Traditional portals are being spurned as sharing makes news personal" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-09-02FTfreindsNotEditorsShapeInternetHabits.png"><img style="font-size: 16px;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: transparent;float: center;padding: 0px;margin: 10px;border: 0px initial initial" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-09-02FTfreindsNotEditorsShapeInternetHabits.png" border="0" alt="" width="425" /></a></p>
<p><strong>2009 Social Media Calendar &#8211; Upcoming Conferences of Interest</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>September 14 &#8211; 17 ==&gt; Chicago, USA - <strong>Social Media For Government</strong>: <a title="the opportunity to learn how to engage your employees and citizens by using social media from leading government agencies and organizations" href="http://www.aliconferences.com/conf/social_media_govt0909/benefits.htm" target="_blank">How to engage your employees and citizens by using the latest Web 2.0 technologies to drive communication results</a>.</p>
<li>September 29 &#8211; October 2 ==&gt; Ottawa, CANADA - <strong>Social Media For Government</strong>: <a title="The opportunity to learn how to engage your employees and citizens by using social media from leading government agencies and organizations" href="http://www.aliconferences.com/conf/social_media_govt_canada1009/index.htm" target="_blank">How to engage your employees and citizens by using the latest Web 2.0 technologies to drive communication results</a>.
<li>September 29 &#8211; October 2 ==&gt; Washington, USA &#8211; <strong>Social Media for Healthcare</strong>: <a title="The opportunity to learn how to engage your employees and citizens by using social media from leading government agencies and organizations" href="http://www.aliconferences.com/conf/social_media_govt_canada1009/index.htm" target="_blank">How to use the latest web 2.0 technologies to engage your community, improve quality of service and build your reputation</a>.
<li>September 30 &#8211; October 1 ==&gt; Washington, USA - <strong>Rethinking Corporate Communications</strong> <a title="in its second year, RCC is an interactive and intimate conference for corporate, government and non-profit communicators" href="http://www.communitelligence.com/content/ahpg.cfm?spgid=355&amp;full=1" target="_blank">2009 Conference</a>.
<li>October 28 &#8211; 29 ==&gt; Atlanta, USA &#8211; <strong>The eMarketing Association (eMA) &#8211; eM9-ATLANTA eMarketing Conference</strong>: <a title="Sessions contain new content and cutting edge actionable ideas and processes you can bring your entire team." href="http://www.emarketingassociation.com/2009/Atlanta/index.html" target="_blank">Forum for the very latest trends, best practices, processes and ideas that are transforming the future of marketing</a>.
<li>November 7 &#8211; 10 ==&gt; San Diego, USA - <strong>Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) 2009 International Conference</strong>: <a title="Discover bottom-line boosting strategies, best practices and real-world advice that you can put to use immediately — with measurable results. Keep ahead of the competition with the latest social media and sustainability/green marketing strategies" href="http://www.prsa.org/ic2009" target="_blank">Delivering Value</a>.</ul>
<p>What is happening in your neck of the woods? Please share your conference dates by leaving a comment below or sending us an email.</p>
<p><strong>That&#8217;s the way we saw things this week; now it’s your turn</strong>. Did we miss anything important? Please add it below as a comment, along with a link. Looking forward to hearing from you!</p>

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<p><a title="Newssift from the Financial Times provides these graphics but one story does not belong here = does not apply to keyword ComMetrics AND another story's sentiment is not correctly interpreted" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-08-28SentimentAnalysisNewssiftFT.png"><img style="margin: 10px;float: left" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-08-28SentimentAnalysisNewssiftFT.png" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="250" /></a><strong>2010-06-01 &#8211; Update</strong> &#8211; <strong>new tools &#8211; heated discussion</strong> &#8211; see bottom of this post.</p>
<p>Recently a customer asked why we have not yet included sentiment analysis in <a title="unless we can do it better than the competition and achieve a high level of validity, we will not touch sentiment analysis" href="http://My.ComMetrics.com" target="_blank">My.ComMetrics.com</a>. Yes, the customer was fully aware that sentiment analysis (also called opinion mining and sometimes semantic analysis) involves <strong>classifying text using natural language processing, computational linguistics and text analysis to reveal the sentiment (e.g., positive, neutral or negative) of a particular text</strong>.</p>
<p>Recently I came across this statement by <a title="Sentiment Analysis Takes the Pulse of the Internet" href="http://net-savvy.com/executive/links/links-for-2009-08-25.html" target="_blank">Nathan Gilliatt</a>:</p>
<ul>&#8220;<em>This <a title="The NY Times pretty much gets it right, but sometimes NOT" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/technology/internet/24emotion.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all" target="_blank">NY Times article</a> doesn&#8217;t include &#8220;brand monitoring,&#8221; &#8220;listening,&#8221; or &#8220;social media analysis&#8221; as it focuses on &#8220;sentiment analysis,&#8221; but they&#8217;re all more or less the same thing.</em>&#8220;</ul>
<p><a title="Sentiment Analysis Takes the Pulse of the Internet" href="http://net-savvy.com/executive/links/links-for-2009-08-25.html" target="_blank">Gilliatt</a> puts the finger on a sore issue that indicates how critical it is that we <strong>DEFINE sentiment analysis</strong> (see above) and then test not only the reliability, but the validity of the results.<span id="more-3886"></span></p>
<p><strong>Is it reliable?</strong><br />
Reliability means getting the same results for the same text analysis regardless of how often the test is run. According to this criteria, the Financial Times&#8217; <a title="intelligent business search it ain't" href="http://www.newssift.com/" target="_blank">Newssift</a> service <strong>is strong</strong>. It lists the two articles in the Financial Times mentioning ComMetrics (see image below). Repeating the string of keywords with other terms such as social media measurement or social media tracking resulted in the same articles appearing on a larger list.</p>
<p><a title="post concludes sentiment analysis is reliable - but what validity" href="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/08/why-sentiment-analysis-is-about-as-reliable-as-a-canary-in-a-coal-mine.html" target="_blank">Sentiment analysis is it reliable &#8211; probably is &#8230;</a> but <strong>being reliable while measuring the wrong stuff cannot be the answer </strong>as we explain below.</p>
<p><strong>Is it valid?</strong><br />
<a title="The Financial Times' Newssift provides these three articles from its archives when we search for ComMetrics, but the results are highly inaccurate... see further below" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-08-28NewssiftFTarchive67percentOfResultsWrongInvalid.png"><img style="margin: 10px;float: right" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-08-28NewssiftFTarchive67percentOfResultsWrongInvalid.png" border="0" alt="" width="225" height="350" /></a>That all depends how you define the term validity and which sentiment analysis software one uses.</p>
<p>Using the keyword &#8216;ComMetrics&#8217;, the data served by the Newssift tool revealed:</p>
<ul>- one <em>neutral</em> article<br />
- one <em>positive</em> article, and<br />
- one article that has <em>nothing to do with ComMetrics</em>, but is still positive.</ul>
<p>But <strong>can these findings be interpreted as valid</strong>? The article classified as neutral raised some important questions and explained how certain blogging challenges could be successfully resolved. How this sentiment would suggest neutrality while brand monitoring is a bit difficult to understand. Further, the last article listed in the image above has absolutely no relationship with ComMetrics. Accordingly, its appearance in the user&#8217;s results list is an error.</p>
<p>In conclusion, <strong>33 percent of search results were correctly identified and classified, regardless of what keywords were used</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>What about Twitter?</strong><br />
<a title="twendz is a Twitter mining Web application that makes me wonder what I gain from using it" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-08-28SentimentAnalysisTwitterFAILS.png"><img style="margin: 10px;float: right" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-08-28SentimentAnalysisTwitterFAILS.png" border="0" alt="" width="150" height="125" /></a>Various sentiment analysis software is available for Twitter. For instance, the image to the right is from <strong>Twendz</strong>, which provides new visitors with a hyped-up description of itself. Unfortunately, its analysis is neither well-described nor are the findings coherent.</p>
<p>A similar software called <a title="Much ado about nothing" href="http://www.tweetfeel.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Tweetfeel</strong></a> fails to work for small brands and does not even bring up all tweets for the biggest brands out there. Hence, we could not really test it.</p>
<p><a title="Twittrratr stopped collecting data in 2008 - is the tool still working or did the company go out of business?" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-08-28SentimentAnalyisTwitterOldDataComMetrics.png"><img style="margin: 10px;float: right" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/09/2009-08-28SentimentAnalyisTwitterOldDataComMetrics.png" border="0" alt="" width="250" height="250" /></a><a href="http://twitrratr.com/"><strong>Twitrratr</strong></a> is another one of these tools, but it stopped tracking some of our brands in late 2008. Maybe the system was put into hibernation?</p>
<p>Worse, it is nearly impossible to figure out what criteria are used by any of the applications to decide whether a tweet is positive, neutral or negative.</p>
<p>How such tools and their findings should &#8220;&#8230;take the pulse of Twitter users about particular topics&#8230;&#8221;, as the <a title="The NY Times pretty much gets it right, but sometimes NOT" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/technology/internet/24emotion.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all" target="_blank">NY Times article</a> claims, suggests that the journalists did not take the time to take these tools for a test-drive. This kind of &#8217;investigative&#8217; reporting will not help reestablish the value of content.</p>
<p>In short, the <strong>sentiment analysis tools we were able to quickly test and review for Twitter seem reliable, but they do not pass the validity hurdle</strong> (i.e. they do not measure what they are supposed to measure).</p>
<p><a title="best tools, tests and best practice for corporate tweeters" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/category/faq/twitter/" target="_blank"><strong>More posts about Twitter from this blog</strong></a></p>
<p><strong>Bottom line</strong><br />
Sentiment analysis is an important, but very hard to master, science and it is still in its infancy. While it can be quite accurate (reliability =&gt; maybe high =&gt; 80 percent or higher), it does not necessarily make the data valid or useful for making strategic decisions grounded in effective brand monitoring.</p>
<p>Finally, when it comes to languages, things get way more complex than simple tweet or text analysis, making success an ever more elusive concept for sentiment analysis, as illustrated below:</p>
<ul>- <strong>cultural differences</strong>:<br />
<a title="Summer reading for business leaders" href="http://blogs.ft.com/donsullblog/2009/08/25/summer-reading/#more-2311" target="_blank">When <strong>Americans</strong> say &#8216;quite&#8217;, they mean &#8216;very&#8217;, and &#8216;interesting&#8217; implies they want to hear more. In <strong>England</strong>, &#8216;quite&#8217; means &#8216;not at all&#8217; &#8216;interesting&#8217; equals &#8216;I can&#8217;t think of anything nice to say&#8217;, and calling something <strong>&#8216;quite interesting&#8217; indicates the speaker is desperately searching for the nearest exit</strong>.</a><br />
-  <strong>positive versus negative meaning</strong>: <strong>sinful</strong> isn&#8217;t always sinfully good chocolate</ul>
<p>The above is nicely illustrated by a comment I recently emailed regarding <a title="what it takes to make a living as a busker ..." href="http://www.ft.com/weekend/busking" target="_blank">a story about buskers working in the London Underground</a>.</p>
<p>The &#8217;busker&#8217; emailed back saying something like: &#8220;&#8230; <strong>you make some interesting and very true observations</strong>&#8230;&#8221; Depending on where the busker makes her home (e.g., United States versus Great Britain), this sentiment can be interpreted in many different ways.</p>
<p><strong>Takeaway</strong>: All of the sentiment analysis programs I have tested &#8211; not all were mentioned in this blog post &#8211; are seriously challenged when it comes to coping with the intricacies of language. Reliability is an important factor but if a tool does not meet validity requirements, I don&#8217;t want to use it for brand monitoring or social media tracking.</p>
<p><strong>Your turn</strong>: Did we miss something? If you know of any tool that works better magic than those we looked at, please give us a shout. <strong>What is your experience with, and opinion of, sentiment analysis</strong>?</p>
<p>More resources about social media marketing and the c-suite:</p>
<p><strong>2010-06-01 &#8211; Update</strong> &#8211; <a title="why sentiment analysis fails - an uneffective if not dangerous tool so far" href="https://www.xing.com/net/smmetrics/freaklaytics-statistics-lie-assume-nothing-question-everything-506200/why-sentiment-analysis-fails-to-deliver-30247294/30247294/#30247294" target="_blank">discussions about new tools and validity concerns on Xing SM Monitoring group</a></p>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Urs E. Gattiker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ComMetrics Week in Review - the way we saw the World Wide Web this week. Will Microsoft get away with the committing the 7 deadly sins? Why does SAP follow unethical business practices? Thanks to the Canadian Privacy Commissioner for getting Facebook to finally heel and respect its users' rights! About time.]]></description>
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<p><a title="View details about how user rights are being curtailed with the Windows 7 OS below under InfoSec" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/08/2009-08-26Windows7versusUserRights.png"><img style="float: left;margin: 10px;border: 0px initial initial" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/08/2009-08-26Windows7versusUserRights.png" border="0" alt="" width="125" height="175" /></a>Short link blogging coming your way this week &#8211; our <strong>top stories</strong> are <strong>Microsoft</strong> curtailing your freedom, <strong>Facebook</strong> being forced to improve user-privacy by the Canadians and <strong>Putin&#8217;s</strong> economic policies causing trouble for many&#8230; while<strong> App Store&#8217;s ascent stirs backlash in the Valley </strong>and how an <strong>Iraqi geologist helped his adopted country Norway to cope smartly with the discovery of oil.</strong></p>
<p>In case you missed the last six weeks’ best links:</p>
<p><strong><a title="Very useful links: Facebook to Morgan Stanley" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/articles/2009-week-29/">Very useful links: Facebook to Morgan Stanley</a></strong> for week 29.<br />
<a title="business ethics, strategic service and better use of social media - lost on the White House and Adobe - Microsoft coming close..." href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-30/" target="_blank"><strong>Very useful links: White House to Adobe</strong></a> for week 30.<br />
<strong><a title="Pokemon and Yahoo join forces to make sure Nikon manages its PR better" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-31/" target="_blank">Very useful links: Nikon to Wii via Yahoo!</a></strong> for week 31.<br />
<strong><a title="Aging populations cause bigger threat to pension schemes than Berlusconi's sex games" rel="bookmark" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-32/">Very useful links: Friendfeed to Berlusconi</a></strong> for week 32.<br />
<strong><a title="Obama struggles regarding healthcare reform while the Copenhagen conference seems to be destined for failure regarding CO2 emissions" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-33/" target="_blank">Very useful links: Trabant to Obama via Copenhagen</a></strong> for week 33.<br />
<a title="Very useful links: UBS to Levi’s via CBS" rel="bookmark" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-34/"><strong>Very useful links: UBS to Levi’s via CBS</strong></a> for week 34.</p>
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<p><strong><span id="more-3805"></span>Social Media TOOLS and GUIDES </strong>that make a DIFFERENCE<br />
VERY USEFUL #tools2watch<strong> </strong><a title="how to get the social media space info from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc faster" href="http://www.olmblog.com/?p=8136" target="_blank"><strong>social media search engines tracking social media mentions</strong></a>, see list of search engine options.</p>
<p>VERY USEFUL #things2read =&gt;<strong><a href="http://marketingwhitepapers.s3.amazonaws.com/smss09/SocialMediaMarketingIndustryReport.pdf"> </a></strong><strong><a title="TOP 3 questions social marketers want an answer for (1) What are the best tactics to use, (2) how to do I measure the effectiveness of social media and (3) where do I start?" href="http://marketingwhitepapers.s3.amazonaws.com/smss09/SocialMediaMarketingIndustryReport.pdf" target="_blank">Top 10 social media questions ad agency clients are asking</a></strong><strong><a href="http://marketingwhitepapers.s3.amazonaws.com/smss09/SocialMediaMarketingIndustryReport.pdf"> (pdf file, 26 pages)</a></strong> #tips2follow</p>
<p><strong>Economic CRISIS AND POLICY</strong><br />
<a title="Cash-for-clunkers was a boon to beleaguered auto dealers and manufacturers in US paid for by future generations" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/08/2009-08-24CashForClunkersSuccessfulBeyondAnybodysImaginationNOT.png"><img style="float: right;margin: 10px;border: 0px initial initial" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/08/2009-08-24CashForClunkersSuccessfulBeyondAnybodysImaginationNOT.png" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="350" /></a><strong>US cash-for-clunkers scheme</strong> ended 2009-08-24 &#8211; lasted barely a month even after funding boosted to $3 billion from original 1 billion, BUT this <strong>flash in the pan wasted taxpayer funds</strong> &#8211; car sales expected to drop Sept. (see graphic at left) #metrics2watch #bettergovernance<br />
<strong>Remember</strong>: The average US subsidy for <a title="who pays how much across Europe, US, Korea, etc." href="http://www.naijapulse.com/notice/17853" target="_blank">Cash for Clunkers</a> is <a title="see Very useful links: Friendfeed to Berlusconi" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/2009-week-32/" target="_blank"> $4206 BUT saving 9.6 miles per gallon AND payback period 7.6 years</a> – <strong>what about energy used to scrap those clunkers? Spare parts cannot be recycled – does this make sense? </strong>#carbonfootprint</p>
<p><a title="China - concerns are rising about the legacy of a government stimulus that is boosting infrastructure - new airports, high-speed roads instead of the railway network - carbon footprint disaster in the making" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/08/2009-08-25ChinaGovernmentStimulusFocusesOnAirportsHigh-speedRoads.png"><img style="float: left;margin: 10px;border: 0px initial initial" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/08/2009-08-25ChinaGovernmentStimulusFocusesOnAirportsHigh-speedRoads.png" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="250" /></a><strong>SMEs provide 75 percent of the jobs to China&#8217;s urban workforce </strong>- that number is now shrinking for the first time in 30 years &#8211; stimulus program is focusing on infrastructure instead  (see graphic at left) #metrics2watch #bettergovernance #carbonfootprint</p>
<p>VERY USUEFUL #things2read <strong><a title="Farouk al-Kasim - Norway turned into a hydrocarbon superpower. Today, it is the world’s sixth-biggest net exporter of oil and the second-biggest net natural gas exporter. In the years since the Ekofisk discovery, the country has exported oil and gas equivalent to some 30 billion barrels of crude" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feabdc0.html" target="_blank">Iraqi who saved Norway from oil while making a fortune for society #bettergovernance =&gt; pushed the government to increase extraction rates &#8217;squeezing the last drop out&#8217;</a> </strong>-  the <strong>culture of pursuing the &#8216;last drop</strong>&#8216; brought greater benefits than just money pouring in&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Social Media TOOLS and GUIDES</strong>, Best practice<br />
<strong><a title="unless a business generates revenue how else can it pay the piper and finance growth?" href="http://commetrics.com/articles/freemium-works-but-beware/" target="_blank">Best business model: Free to use, pay to play &#8211; when will venture capitalists pull the plug on Twitter?</a></strong> #bettergovernance #trends2watch</p>
<p>VERY USEFUL &#8211; <strong><a title="Most experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the model collapses at first contact with customers." href="http://steveblank.com/2009/08/27/the-leading-cause-of-startup-death-the-product-development-diagram/" target="_blank">Why following the product development diagram could result in failure for your start-up</a></strong> #things2read</p>
<p><strong>Social Media MARKETING BUZZ</strong><br />
#trends2watch Social Media Revolution by Socialnomics&#8230; MARKETING 101… Not exactly but NICE video&#8230;  <a title="watch slide video - Social Media Revolution" href="http://latonajv.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/social-media-revolution-by-socialnomics/" target="_blank"><strong>social media for you</strong> &#8211; some hype, some facts but interesting</a>.</p>
<p>#first2move Apple&#8217;s <strong>App Store </strong>launched 2008-07-10, more than <strong>10m downlodads on first weekend</strong>,<strong> 1.5bn (65,000) applications dowwnloaded (available) </strong>to date, more than <strong>100,000 developers building applications</strong>, available in 77 countries &#8211; <strong>developers and market regulators </strong>are keeping a <strong>wary eye on Apple&#8217;s growing influence</strong> #trends2watch</p>
<p><strong>InfoSec</strong><br />
Less than 2 months until Windows 7 OS release &#8211; <a title="the new OS commits the seven deadly sins of “invading privacy, poisoning education, locking users in, abusing standards, leveraging monopolistic behavior, enforcing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), and threatening user security.”" href="http://windows7sins.org/" target="_blank">Free Software Foundation highlights <strong>the 7 Deadly Sins, Windows-style</strong></a> #things2patch #bugs2fix #threats2watch</p>
<p><a title="Canadian privacy commissioner forces Facebook to add privacy safeguards - putting teeth into privacy regulation - Canadians show American and EU regulators how it's done" href="http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2009/nr-c_090827_e.cfm" target="_blank"><strong>Thank you to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and her crew</strong> =&gt; <strong>forcing #Facebook to change privacy practices + policies to comply with Canadian laws &#8211; we all benefit</strong></a> #threats2watch #bettergovernance</p>
<p><strong>Actionable Metrics and Standards – Best Practice</strong><br />
#crisis Legal reform &amp; curtailing corruption ever tougher with minor officials grabbing assets &#8211; <strong>Medvedomics requires a jump start or Russians and those dependent on the country&#8217;s energy will suffer</strong> #bettergovernance  (see graphic below).</p>
<p><a title="Putinomics-plus means limited efforts to move the Russian economy up the commodity value chain by building more refineries, smelters &amp; timber processors" href="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/08/2009-08-25PutinomicsChannelingEnergyRevenuesIntoNationalChampions.png"><img style="font-size: 16px;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: transparent;float: center;padding: 0px;margin: 10px;border: 0px initial initial" src="http://www.cytrap.eu/files/ComMetrics/2009/image/08/2009-08-25PutinomicsChannelingEnergyRevenuesIntoNationalChampions.png" border="0" alt="" width="425" /></a><br />
#things2read <a title="establish goals first - metrics must be meaningful = if you get the results, take action - then start to measure = watch and compare the trends do what they tell you" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/interviews/blog/make-sure-social-media-metrics-are-meaningful/?cs=34756" target="_blank"><strong>Make sure social media metrics are meaningful</strong></a> #metrics2watch</p>
<p>#ethics2watch <strong><a title="apparently SAP does have questionable business ethics - at least this jury thought so" href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/170899/versata_wins_139m_damages_in_sap_patent_lawsuit.html" target="_blank">SAP caught infringing on 5 of Versata Software&#8217;s patents &#8211; verdict of patent lawsuit forces SAP to pay $139 million in damages</a></strong> questionable business ethics for sure #bettergovernance</p>
<p><strong>That&#8217;s the way we saw things this week; now it’s your turn</strong>. Did we miss anything important? Please add it below as a comment, along with a link. Looking forward to hearing from you!</p>

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