{"id":1303,"date":"2009-04-01T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialmediaexp.wpengine.com\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2016-06-13T15:45:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T19:45:05","slug":"the-advanced-quick-%e2%80%98n-dirty-guide-to-social-media-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialmediaexplorer.com\/content-sections\/tools-and-tips\/the-advanced-quick-%e2%80%98n-dirty-guide-to-social-media-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Advanced Quick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcn Dirty Guide to Social Media Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-682\" style=\"width: 50px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-682\" title=\"Kat French\" src=\"http:\/\/socialmediaexp.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/katvatar-small.jpg\" alt=\"Kat French\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kat French<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Welcome to the jungle, baby.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">If you thought this was going to be lot like the last post in the series, but with more expensive tools, sorry to disappoint you. We&#8217;ll still be doing a detailed post comparing all the social media monitoring tools available now. But the comments in particular on the last post made me realize that moving from the beginning of a social media monitoring effort to the advanced level is <em>so<\/em> not really about the tools.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">Let me say that again:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4a442a; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: 14pt;\">Moving from the beginning of a social media monitoring effort to the advanced level is not about the snazzy monitoring tools.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4a442a; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s about using the tool between your ears.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I&#8217;m a pretty big fan of Avinash Kaushik, an expert in web analytics. In reading his blog over the last year or so, he brings up one concept repeatedly regarding professional development for web analytics pros: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/index.php?s=reporting+squirrel&amp;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">the difference between a &#8220;reporting squirrel&#8221; and an &#8220;analysis ninja.&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\"> Let me quote the Kaushik:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"color: #4a442a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 28pt;\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Palatino Linotype;\">Know the difference between a Reporting Squirrel and an Analysis Ninja? One is in the business of providing data. One is in the business of providing, to use an old fashioned word, information.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Palatino Linotype;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">Or to quote another source, &#8220;I should think that you Jedi would have more respect for the difference between knowledge and \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 heh heh heh\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <em>wisdom<\/em>.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">If you walk away from the first two chapters of this <em>Quick &#8216;n Dirty Guide<\/em> with the idea that social media monitoring is about collecting links, reviewing content, assessing sentiment, and then providing a big &#8220;data puke&#8221; to superiors or clients in the form of a report\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 then you&#8217;ve missed the point.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">The point of working your way from purely manual monitoring (like we talked about in the first <em>Quick &#8216;n Dirty Guide<\/em> post), up to more sophisticated tools, is to give you insights into what people really think and feel about your organization. Not what consumer surveys say. What <em>people<\/em> say about you when they don&#8217;t realize you&#8217;re listening. Or when they are hoping you&#8217;re listening, but fear you don&#8217;t care.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Social media monitoring is the <em>listening<\/em> part of a <em>conversation<\/em>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">Like any active listening exercise, after doing it for a while, you should be able to <strong>distill<\/strong> what you&#8217;ve been hearing. You should be able to pick out the commonly repeated themes. The things that are real emotional hot buttons. The things that are minor-but-constant discordant irritations. You should be able to apply your &#8220;tribal knowledge&#8221; of your industry to the raw data.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\"> I&#8217;m not talking about some generic &#8220;sentiment&#8221; score\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnegative, somewhat positive, neutral. I&#8217;m talking about hearing the voice of your people, your customers, as something coherent and understandable and most importantly, ACTIONABLE<em>. I&#8217;m talking about pulling the signal out of the noise.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">Tools can make this simpler, but ultimately, it&#8217;s down to you and your friend Mr. Grey Matter to distill <em>data<\/em> into <em>insights<\/em>, and <em>insights <\/em>into <em>actionable recommendations<\/em>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Monitoring is the listening part of a <em>conversation<\/em><\/strong>. Which also means it&#8217;s completely pointless if you&#8217;re not going to respond. Which means this is &#8220;fish or cut bait&#8221; time.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">Don&#8217;t jump to conclusions and assume I&#8217;m telling you that your efforts are pointless if your organization or client isn&#8217;t going to start replying to blog posts and tweeting like John Mayer on steroids. Responding doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean &#8220;replying.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">If the distilled insights you&#8217;re gaining say that your customers have a pain point, addressing that pain point is responding. In fact, it&#8217;s a heck of a lot more meaningful way of responding than hiring a PR person to post cheery, upspeak replies to grousing blog posts, tweets and statuses. Is it even better to have a channel, like a blog or a Twitter feed or a Facebook fan page, where you can triumphantly announce your organization&#8217;s efforts to combat that pain point? Sure. But that&#8217;s the other side of the conversation: social media<em> marketing<\/em>. (Which I guess will need its own <em>Quick &#8216;n Dirty Guide<\/em> soon enough.)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">Anyone can throw some snazzy charts and graphs onto a page. And some bosses are really impressed with snazzy charts and graphs\u00e2\u20ac\u201da few times. And the truth is, sometimes the starting point has to be showing some suits that yes, Virginia, an un-ignorable number of people are talking about us on the internet.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">But until you can evolve from the social media version of a reporting squirrel into an <em>Insights Ninja<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6you can probably be replaced by an intern with a really good grasp of cut-and-paste. And unless the higher-ups or clients are going to take action based on the insights you&#8217;re pulling from monitoring social media, then you could probably find a better use for your time than chronicling their customers&#8217; joys and frustrations for your own amusement.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">So many people are jumping into &#8220;social media,&#8221; and that&#8217;s great. If you want to move from traditional marketing, or even a totally unrelated field, into social media\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe barriers to entry are relatively low. This isn&#8217;t brain surgery\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut it does require you to use your brain.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">So here&#8217;s where we have to step off of the yellow brick road of step-by-step instructions. This is where you have to figure stuff out on your own. What&#8217;s important in all this flood of information? What&#8217;s actionable? What next steps would you recommend for the actionable stuff? What&#8217;s a format for conveying that to the decision-makers in your organization?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">All stuff you&#8217;re going to have to determine on your own, bippy.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">Like I said, welcome to the jungle.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">To check out the first chapter of the <em>Quick &#8216;n Dirty Guide to Social Media Monitoring<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/socialmediaexp.wpengine.com\/2009\/02\/18\/a-quick-n-dirty-guide-to-setting-up-social-media-monitoring\/\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial;\">For part deux, <a href=\"http:\/\/socialmediaexp.wpengine.com\/2009\/03\/25\/quick-n-dirty-social-media-monitoring-guide-intermediate-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the jungle, baby. 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