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By: Niall Mc Henry

Niall Mc Henry — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:08:37 +0000

Hi Niall

Only catching up on your post now. Super piece. Great tools above…all very valuable for filtering conversations and clever thinking by Declan. Still wonder if any application for monotoring conversations by region e.g. Ireland only conversations?

If you come across any would love to hear.

Many thanks

Niall

By: Dong Eito

Dong Eito — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:42:01 +0000

This is a really helpful article that you are giving away! Most people who are new to social media are overwhelmed that they even didn’t know how to use what. With the latest tech terms that crop up today related to social networking, people can really get confuse which type of media they are going to sign-up with. The best thing to do is to know your goal..what would you like to achieve. If you only want to connect to your friends and family then Facebook or Myspace will be enough for you, but if you are marketing a product or service then that is another story. I cannot really imagine doing business online or offline without the social media network…I just can’t do without it.

By: Shyam Kapur

Shyam Kapur — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:19:52 +0000

Thanks, Niall. You are right semantic technologies have failed to delivered their promise until now. TipTop is perhaps the first product that does truly deliver. More you play with it, more you will see the potential. For any last-minute holiday gift shopping, check out the shopping site as well. The direct link is http://ftt.nu/shopping You can tell everyone you meet over the holidays that you shopped using a semantic shopping engine. They’ll be impressed!

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:17:49 +0000

Wow Declan I have to hand it to you. You have taken the spying to a new level I didn’t think about that actually as I just have my twitter follower emails just going to a folder I never see for all I know 10 of my competitors follow my every move! Thanks for sharing the tip of yours for others though…they’ll be extra sneaky now!

By: DeclanH

DeclanH — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:20:10 +0000

Hi Niall,

Where do you stand on publicly following a competitor versus doing it quietly and without them knowing?

For example, you could follow a competitor on Twitter, or you could subscribe to an RSS feed of a Twitter search for their Twitter user name.

In the first instance you see, publicly, everything the say. But in the second, you see the full conversation about your competitor without them knowing you’re listening in.

Declan

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:24:15 +0000

Thanks a million for sharing that Shyam will check it out Don’t know what happened to the semantic web, never really took off that whole thing

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Tuesday Time… « The Universe… — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:04:56 +0000

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By: Shyam Kapur

Shyam Kapur — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:04:36 +0000

This is an excellent post with lots of good advice which I will be using. I also use TipTop, the semantic search tool at http://FeelTipTop.com, to keep track of my brand and products as well as those of my competitors.

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:55:24 +0000

Mp worries Tomas. Been on your blog a couple of times now and you are not too far off! Lots of good original content on there so just a case of getting the audience built up and building some community around it. You are on the right track though for sure

By: Tomas Stonkus

Tomas Stonkus — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:45:18 +0000

Awesome! Thank you so much for the practical tips!

I loved the Website Grader. I just entered my blogs name in there and it gave me all of this awesome information. So cool and very useful.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I know I am going to use these tools to improve my blog and fix up any glitches.

Best,
Tomas

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:19:46 +0000

Hehe try our best alright Henri! Website grader rocks as it gives you all the info on a site nicely packaged rather than doing it by using a load of plugins and 3rd party sites. Sends you a nice report to your email as well if you want

By: Henri

Henri — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:03:24 +0000

I had no idea about most of these tools and I most likely will not use them, yet. Website grader has remained unknown to me up until this point, but it seems insanely useful. You just don’t stop churning out useful content, do you?