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Social Listening Catch-All Queries

The way you manage your Boolean queries differs from tool to tool. Some tools let you build queries that you can file in folders, like Sprinklr with its topics and topics groups; other tools let you build queries and subqueries, as a way to categorise your search - so for a

· 5 min · Social Listening

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Social Listening for Products with Similar Names

When doing social listening, how do you track mentions of products with similar names? Or better, how do you do social listening for two products when one’s name is just a variant of the other? Products like the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6SPlus , or the Microsoft Surface and Microsoft

· 5 min · Social Listening

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Proximity Operators (and Why You Need Them)

There are so many features to look out for when shopping for social listening tools, but one thing that should definitely be on your list of requirements is this: proximity operators. Here’s what they are and why you need them. What are proximity operators? If you’ve ever had

· 5 min · Brandwatch

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Using 'NOT' and Brandwatch Lists to Filter Data

One question I recently had from a few work colleagues was about the use of the NOT operator in Brandwatch dashboards, and how that differs from using Brandwatch lists. If you’re already a Brandwatch user then you may be familiar with their lists: site lists, author lists, location lists.

· 4 min · Brandwatch

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Brandwatch Unveils New "links:" Operator

Brandwatch have unveiled a new feature: they’ve introduced a new Boolean operator that lets you retrieve any Tweets containing links to a website, even if the links have been shortened. You can read more about it in their official announcement here. What makes this operator so special is the

· 5 min · Brandwatch

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The State of Social Media Analytics - 2015

I’ve been reading quite a few articles on “the state of social media” recently. They’re interesting, I can’t help but notice how a lot of these articles seem to ignore analytics, which is a shame considering how great the last 6 months have been for social analytics.

· 4 min · Social Analytics