Top 10 Social Media Monitoring Tools

Top 10 Social Media Monitoring Tools

1. HootSuite: It is our favorite social media dashboard. User can track result & use twitter lists to check on what people is a specific sector are talking about. Free for one person, $5 to $15/mo, for other team members.

2. Social Mention: It is a social media search engine that searches for keywords on social media platforms such as events, bookmarks, videos, blogs, comments & provides graphic illustrations/ charts showing mentions per day or week.

3. Trackur: Trackur is an online reputation management & social media monitoring tool. It is a google alerts on steroids. Trackur will deliver results to your RSS feed/ your inbox/ web based dashboard. Quickly monitor your reputation, check on trends & analyze media mentions for your brand. Four plans cost $18 to $377/ month.

4. Addict-O-Matic: It lets you instantly create a custom page with latest buzz on a given topic. Browser based tool offers a one stop customized site for seeing results across multiple social media channels.

5. Topsy: Enter a search term on this website, such as name of your nonprofit, cause & you will get result showing what users are saying on twitter & google+. Fine tune your result to see only what users are saying within hour/ up to 30 days.

6. Twitter: It is a advanced search in the best way to ferret out about a targeted sector. Look for keywords, search by location, date/ with other filters. Track is a little know it (Twitter) feature that lets you track keywords & have them sent directly to your mobile phone as soon as they are posted.

7. WatchThatPage: Sometimes you would like to know when updates take place to an important web page say, your key page on your competitors or Wikipedia sites. Instruct it (WatchThatPage) to keep tabs on any web page & you will receive an alert any time a change is made to page.

8. Sprout Social: Chicago based sprout social lets you target & discover new supporters, monitor or customers your brand across social web organize your social networks & manage up to five identities with basic plan. Sprout Social service offers an easy to digest summary of what is happening online around your social presence.

9. Wildfire: Wildfire is site which creates interactive promotions on social sites, has a tool, social media monitor, that tracks & compares how non profits & brands are performing on Twitter & Facebook.

10. Thrive: It is an all in one social media tool that lets you listen, report, publish & engage with donors & supporters. Features like automated keyword searching, contact sorting and tagging, conversation archiving help you cultivate relationships over time, turning fans into donors.