Quick ‘n Dirty Social Media Monitoring Guide: Intermediate Edition

Since I started contributing to this blog back in June of last year, I’ve had a few posts that seemed to really provide value. Of those, the Quick n’ Dirty Guide to Social Media Monitoring was the one that got the most traffic, comments, links, and tweets. In that post, we discussed how to set up a very basic social media monitoring system that you could implement in about a half hour or less per day, using only free tools like Google Alerts, Delicious, Flickr and YouTube. We also discussed the importance of simply claiming your brand name and space on sites like Twitter and Facebook’s Pages. So let’s say you’ve been cruising along with your social media monitoring system for a while now, and are ready to step things up to the next level...