General Sentiment was a social media monitoring and analytics company providing social data to help brands make decisions based on content from sources including blogs, forums, Twitter, Facebook, television and radio broadcasting. The system used natural language processing and text analytics for sentiment analysis. It is no longer available.
Netvibes is suited for social media enthusiasts whom want to convert visits and click to sales. Bu utilizing the dashboard, you are armed with the capabilities to produce a higher amount of traffic to any website.
The application does take time to start gathering data on a specific topic. As such, its important to include as many keyword search topics as possible, and also be sure to refine them as you gather data.
The user interface isn't particularly intuitive, there is some work that could be done to streamline its use.
Social media tools are constantly evolving. I would want to be sure that my research question was complimented by the metrics and options presented by the social media tool. General Sentiment is very useful and innovative and their customer service was excellent. Their sales and customer service team was very helpful in onboarding our staff and being flexible with our needs.
While both (Netvibes and Paper.li) are content aggregators, they perform very different functions. Netvibes is extremely useful when you are trying to catch up on the news on the go, come up with more content ideas based on the current trends and use the trending articles in your content marketing.
Social media analytics can accelerate the speed with which researchers can investigate a topic of interest, at a lower cost.
Due to the low barrier to entry (e.g., most social media sites and blogs are free), data collection burden, as traditionally defined, is significantly reduced or eliminated. The absence of direct interactions between researchers and the study population may do more to mitigate sources of bias compared to other more intrusive forms of data collection (i.e., interviews, focus groups).
Used to to gather unstructured data and feedback from Medicare beneficiaries, caregivers, advocates, and other stakeholders to identify systemic issues that beneficiaries encounter.
