Chapter 6 Social Analytics, Metrics, and Measurement
Chapter 6 hits our personal passion with regard to social media and business: measurement. This chapter covers the question that keeps most decision makers and change/process champions up at night: “How do I measure this and make sense of it?” It takes a hard look at the rationale for establishing specific metrics along with the tools and platforms that provide and analyze these metrics in the context of your objectives.
Chapter contents:
- Why we measure
- Social analytics
- Know your influencers
- Web analytics
- Business analytics
Why We Measure
Before looking at how companies measure and analyze their social efforts, let’s look at a more fundamental question: Why does measurement matter?
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