Hi Paul
Thanks for the info.
The transparency does seem to be important for the HE sector. It
does strike me that this would be useful to gain a better understanding
of how institutional Twitter accounts are working (although perhaps less
so for individual accounts).
Can you only use it to analyse your own Twitter accounts or can it
be used to make comparisons with one's peers?
Ta
Brian
On 18/11/2011 17:31, Paul Boag wrote:
> Funny you should mention this Brian. I have just installed it today.
> Its a bit of a faff to setup (unless you are comfortable with setting
> mysql dbs and twitter/facebook applications) but the documentation is
> pretty good.
>
> Functionality wise it is pretty impressive. It shows you stack loads
> of information and seems to be more transparent about its rankings
> than something like Klout.
>
> Its still indexing for me so I cant really comment in any depth (I
> haven't been able to get it to index facebook yet). That said, it
> looks good.
>
> One missing feature is search. It would be great to search old tweets
> but I guess I can always install Tweetnest
> <http://pongsocket.com/tweetnest/> if I want that.
>
> Paul
>
> On 18 Nov 2011, at 14:05, Brian Kelly wrote:
>
>> I imagine many Web people working in Marketing departments will be
>> looking at how their institution is doing within the Social Web using
>> tools such as PeerIndex, Klout, etc or by buying in consultancy
>> services from commercial social media companies.
>>
>> Is anyone, however, making use of social media analytics tools
>> in-house? I recently came across Think Up which is described as:
>>
>> "ThinkUp is a *free*, *open source* web application that captures all
>> your activity on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
>>
>> With ThinkUp, you can store your social activity in a database that
>> *you control*, making it easy to search, sort, analyze, publish and
>> display activity from your network. All you need is a web server that
>> can run a PHP application."
>>
>> See http://thinkupapp.com/
>>
>> EWE are familiar with the importance of Web usage analytics, and how
>> companies such as Statistics into Decisions (SiD) are providing
>> dashboards which help help such usage statistics to business
>> successes (and perhaps even financial benefits). I wondered if
>> anyone is doing anything similar regarding their institutional
>> presences on social Web services?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> PS the UK Web Focus blog has been short-listed for the *IT
>> Professional blogger of the year
>> <http://www.computerweekly.com/guides/Social-Media-Awards-2011#guideCategory9>*
>> category which is “/for blogs that detail an individual perspective,
>> not a company line, of life in the IT profession/“. As described at
>> http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/uk-web-focus-blog-short-listed-for-the-computer-weekly-social-media-awards/
>> the UK Web Focus blog is the only blog provided by a full-time member
>> of staff working in the higher education sector. Winning the award
>> will provide an opportunity to promote the values of Web development
>> within the HE sector to a wider community. I hope you will be
>> willing to vote :-)
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