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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    General Sentiment (discontinued)

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AGeneral 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.N/A

    Social Mention

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ASocial Mention is a free tool which is a kind of Google search for the social web. It provides basic search and alerts across a very broad variety of social channels.N/A
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    General Sentiment (discontinued)Social Mention
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    General Sentiment (discontinued)Social Mention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    General Sentiment (discontinued)Social Mention
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    Determine what your research question or customer relations needs are to pick a tool that is a good match.
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    Social Mention
    Social Mention is a great tool for monitoring social media. This Tool can also be used to search specifically taking the keywords in the blogs, comments, news etc. It offers a third party API for users. It can be used to send email to clients of their brand performance data. This tool can indicate if your mentions are angry, happy or neutral but the data can't be reliable.
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    Pros
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    • Using volume and association metrics to assess and predict trends and emerging topics
    • Use the articles metric to drill down into specific posts, such as tweets, Facebook, blog comments, news articles
    • General Sentiment has the ability to access password protected sites to access information that may not normally show up in standard internet searches
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    Social Mention
    • Can predict future response from today's number.
    • Let's you judge which types of campaigns to run.
    • Has a very well managed dashboard of results.
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    Cons
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    • 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.
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    Social Mention
    • Under the "Free" dashboard you are limited to only receiving weekly results.
    • Can't negate those tags which contain my tags.
    • Lots of tweets missing, no noise filtering. Sometimes we get very old contents which are not needed.
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    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.
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    Social Mention
    I love that Social Mention is so easy to use. It does not take a long time to learn how to navigate the site when you need information quickly. I don't use it as much in my new job, but I recommend it for basic monitoring and when you need social media information right away
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    Implementation Rating
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    Social Mention
    It doesn't work as well since we changed our name. We used to have a very unique twitter handle etc. so it was easier for social mention to find us. For folks who have unique names it's excellent if you don't it may not be that helpful.
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    Social Mention
    Social Mention streamed everything together, calculated my sentiment for me, allows me to filter what results I am personally looking for, extract my RSS feed and navigate to one of the channels of buzz.
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    Return on Investment
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    • 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.
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    Social Mention
    • The paid-version actually had a negative ROI for us as it would sometimes feed us topically inappropriate articles and didn't allow us to filter by source so as to eliminate inappropriate blogs and inappropriate news sources (like highly politically partisan ones).
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