Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Strugglin' with !t

I struggled a bit this week.

Struggle 1: I've been using Trapit for over a month now and I still find myself getting lost looking through pictures and article titles and eventually flat-lining from information overload. As a remedy I've come up with a more methodical way of doing things: 
  1. Look through all of the "hot" traps and traps of personal interest.
  2. Bookmark 15-20 articles from source names that aren't easily recognizable (major news sources, etc.)
  3. Read through the articles to weed out sources that aren't niche or reliable.
  4. For the remainder, document the following: 
    1. Source Type
    2. Article URL
    3. Source Title
    4. Twitter Handle
  5. Write a Tweet for each source, to be put in the queue in Hootsuite.
Struggle 2: The analytics tools for Hootsuite are... lacking. I need to find a way to put together analytics for the following:
  1. How many unique views the Twitter profile gets.
  2. Keywords used in conjunction with @trapitsources.
  3. Twitter "sentiment".
  4. How often @trapitsources is mentioned.
  5. Rate of follower growth.
There are types of analytics missing from my list, I'm sure; however, this would be a good place to start. I have a list of analytics resources to look into - some are free, others are a bit costly. Further research into these tools is my task for this week, as well as growing the list of sources/tweets for the account and developing further relationships with current/new followers.

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