SocialMention Search Awesomeness
The image above is pretty self-explanatory but in case you haven’t had your coffee yet, SocialMention is a search engine designed specifically to assist you in managing your online reputation within the social stream. You can search all of the available social streams in one click, or you can narrow it down by searching specifically within blogs or microblogs (such as Twitter and FriendFeed), bookmarks (like del.ic.ious and StumbleUpon), comments (backtype and FriendFeed), events (through eventful and upcoming.yahoo), images (from flickr), news, or video.
After you select where to search, you can then drill down further by determining the time frame to narrow your search, so if you want to see what a hot month you’ve had you can!
But It’s Slow
SocialMention is relatively slow but I don’t mind because it’s crawling what I need instead of static sites from 2006. I’m a fast typer, talker and walker most the time, but not all my friends keep up- they’re still my friends.
Try doing a search on your name, your brokerage, your blog, your neighborhood and more to see what social media implications lie within each topic! You may find that you’re doing really well or that you have some work to do!
Sarah Cooper
October 5, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Whooo — I just learned I have GOT to be more careful what I say in Twitter!!! LOL!
Brad Hanks
October 5, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Thanks for this Lani. I’m gonna go check and see just how sullied my online reputation might be. 😉 Keep your fingers crossed.
Cyndee Haydon
October 5, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Thanks for always educating us with the latest tools – you ROCK!
Sherry Baker
October 5, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Cool tool, Lani. Thanks for sharing!
Elaine Hanson
October 5, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Of course, now I have to try this with the name “Sarah Cooper” Hmmmm.
Roy Pereira
October 5, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Thanks Lani. I was able to find some very interesting information. Roy
Tina Merritt
October 6, 2008 at 6:46 am
Yep – it is slow. But, very useful and interesting. Thanks Lani!
Wade Munday
October 6, 2008 at 8:50 am
Thanks Lani. Social Mention looks like a great tool. Thanks for sharing!
Jon
October 6, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Hi Lani,
Thanks for the great post! We really appreciate it.
Currently, the search is slow (our bad!) but we are working on a new release that will improve the search speed considerably. In addition, we’ll be adding a few new features as well.
Let us know if you have any suggestions,
Jon
Andrew
August 7, 2011 at 10:40 pm
That is a bit scary…however it interesting to see if this gains much popularity. From a business perspective I don't think it will become popular anytime soon – at least in small communities.