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By: Doug Bedell

Following up on social media measurement, Sorav Jain on the Social Media Today blog offers a primer on SM listening—"25 Ways to Listen to Customers on Social Media." Listening, of course, is a precondition for engagement, and here are tips on tools from Google, Yahoo, and Twitter to Postrank and Guzzle. Guzzle?

We haven't used Guzzle ourselves yet, but Sorav explains that it "automatically categorizes feeds by inspecting and analyzing each feed. When you require any information on a particular keyword, Guzzle instantly provides the latest information, using the pre-categorized results."

To be proficient in social media engagement—that is, to survive in public relations from now on—we need to be proficient in tools like these. They can save a lot of time and uncertainty as to how we're doing out there.

Are you busy yet with your social media studies?

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About the Author

Doug Bedell has a background in journalism and PR and is the owner of Resource Relations LLC in Central PA, focusing on organizational and crisis communication. He’s the community manager of SimplyFair.net, a social network on fairness. On the Web, Doug’s at www.ResourceRelations.com. On Twitter, he’s @DougBeetle.

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