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February 13, 2008 – 5:19 amFor those who monitor conversations for your company or for other companies, here’s a quick tidbit of humility over on this side.
There were a particular number of social media sites I felt were monitor worthy. Most of these I put extra time into in terms of easily putting together tools that allowed me to aggregate their RSS content based on my keywords via the click of a button, rather than a lot of clicks of a button (eg: not having to go to every site and set it up). For a while I’ve left Yahoo! Answers off that list. It’s no longer off the list.
Thankfully I managed to have my conversation monitoring solid enough to pickup a tail from the Yahoo! Answers conversation. It was the tail, but it was something I am glad I didn’t miss. I’m now making sure Y!A is included in my tracking, and I suggest you do the same.
Consequently, I’ve updated my keyword tracking. I removed a number of sites from its listings due to the amount of spam it was picking up. As it is now, it’s primarily hitting social media type sites, which means to really use it effectively you’re going to want to have your blog searches setup separately.
The list of services it’s tracking are digg, yahoo answers, topix, delicious, board tracker, google blog search (this is working iffy), and tweetscan. This isn’t all the services I’d like to track, but it’s the ones I can quickly automate within Yahoo! Pipes.
You can check out the pipe here.
