Idol Predictomatic. Social media monitoring American Idol prediction.

I haven't watched much of American Idol. I'm really not a fan of the signing but I am a fan of using social media to predict popularity contests. So lets give it a go. First lets look at sentiment. Seems my taste for indie rock (and not pop ballads) isn't…

Lost. Is everyone feeling as let down as me? Let’s find out.

What I found to be a rather disappointing finale to ABC's Lost is perfect time for a little sentiment analysis fun using the social media monitoring tool Social Radar. What do I expect to see after the end a show that was much loved show? I'm expecting to see a…

Academy Awards and social media monitoring. Can we predict the future?

The academy awards is a bit of a popularity contest. Not as much as the Golden Globes, so it will probably be a little more exciting to see if there's any predictive insight here. I'm just going to stick with the big awards and pull a few charts and see…

Monday morning ROI quarterbacking, ad Super Bowl of fiascos and some sentiment analysis

OK so you just dropped 2.5 million on media and another half million on production for what? Pissing off a of women who make up 52% of your demographic and influence almost every purchase on the planet. Great job Dodge, Bud Light, Dove. And Audi, really? Not like the Twitterverse…

Evaluating Social Media Monitoring Tools. Do I really need all that?

Image by Getty Images via Daylife This post is the over-due follow up to this one. It took awhile to write not just because I've been busy but because I wanted to add to the conversation when other people have already written great comparisons of the social media tools available. Plus there…

Social media monitoring software selection: Why we chose Social Radar.

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Image via CrunchBase[/caption] At Kilgannon, we've made the decision to use Social Radar as our new social media monitoring tool. We did not take this decision lightly. We also scoured the blogs and websites. We also asked partner organizations which tools they were using and then…