Dr. DigiPol

I found a great article on tools for monitoring social media. There are 13 of these tools listed. Some I am familiar with, others I need to explore.

But as we get deeper into engaging the social web, these tools will be very useful. The full article is here and the 13 tools are below:

When I was growing up in Maine, we had four networks: ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. When I was a young adult, Fox joined the list. Then cable came along and the number of networks exploded. Sure, cable networks were small, compared to the big 5, but with the reach of cable, even small networks like WGN out of Chicago turned people all over the world into Cubs fans.

These days, we have a new crop of networks. But unlike the last explosion, these networks are not on television. They are on the internet. Yes, the internet; that collection of websites and other platforms that deliver us all sorts of information. We are talking about Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, and YouTube. We are talking Yahoo, Google, lions, tiger, and bears, oh my… oops… that was an old habit slipping in.