Radian6 takes home KIRA Award for Most Promising Startup

Chris Ramsey, Gerry Pond (Chairman), Chris Newton, David Alston, Jerry Carr

Radian6 was honoured last night by the region’s knowledge industry association, KIRA, when it received the award for Most Promising Startup. “We are honoured and proud,” said Marcel LeBrun, CEO of Radian6 Technologies in an interview with the Daily Gleaner. A big thank you goes out to all of our customers, staff and investors. Chris Ramsey accepted the award on behalf of Radian6 at the ceremonies last night.

Pictured above from left to right are Chris Ramsey (VP Business Developement), Gerry Pond (Chairman), Chris Newton (CTO and Founder), David Alston (VP Marketing), and Jerry Carr (VP Engineering).

May 2nd, 2008
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Radian6 at New Communications Forum 2008 - April 22-25, 2008 in Sonoma County

We’re very excited to announce that Radian6 will be a gold sponsor and exhibitor at the New Communications Forum 2008, which will be held at the Hyatt Vineyard Creek Inn & Spa in Sonoma County, California from April 22nd to 25th.

Now in its fourth year, New Communications Forum is the premier conference that brings together thought leaders and decision makers from around the globe to discuss the impact of social media and new communications on media, marketing, journalism, PR, advertising, business, culture and society.

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March 11th, 2008
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Building a global social media practice

Social Media Group (SMG) has been making waves lately in the social media world with their landing of Ford and SAP. Maggie Fox and the gang at SMG have also created lots of positive buzz with their own version of a social media press release (SMPR) which they call Digital Snippets. Today SMG announced its partnership with Radian6, to add enhanced social media monitoring to their practice mix globally. They look to use the solution to uncover potential issues for clients before they go mainstream. They also look to the solution to help uncover business intelligence that can help their clients find ways to engage online. Click here for more information on the announcement.

March 3rd, 2008
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Radian6 highlights online buzz about Starbucks’ closure on ABC TV news

Yesterday precisely at 5:30pm all of the Starbucks in the US closed their doors for a 3 hour training session. Taking the national chain offline during business hours would be enough to create some serious buzz online for those counting the minutes until they could get their Starbucks caffeine fix again. But it also had people speculating on whether the outage would be good for their competitors or if the timing of the outage was part of an ingenius publicity stunt.

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February 27th, 2008
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Finding Brand Enthusiasts begins with listening

Today Doe Anderson announced that they will be using Radian6’s social media monitoring solution to help discover and create brand enthusiasts for their clients. Their process starts with research or listening and moves to the development of effective plans to convert ordinary customers into brand enthusiasts.

Doe Anderson’s Social Media Explorer, Jason Falls, states “By using the Radian6 social media monitoring solution, Doe Anderson can hone in on what customers are saying about the brands we work with. This detailed knowledge, the ability to see trends and the ease of discovering who the influencers are online makes our job of finding and engaging with brand enthusiasts in social media so much easier.”

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February 20th, 2008
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Launching a social media monitoring practice

Voce Communications’ launch of the addition of social media monitoring as part of their practice today is an excellent example of the use of social media itself. They issued their own version of a social media press release (SMPR) which included their definitions of social media monitoring and mining, a screencast series of videos on how they use Radian6’s social media monitoring solution, as well as an audio clip from Radian6’s VP Marketing, David Alston, on the solutions’ differentiators. They also then used Marketwire to distribute a short version of the release for pickup by search engines and various publications.

February 15th, 2008
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IPG’s Bant Breen Discusses Social Media Monitoring with Chris Ramsey

Bant Breen, President, Interpublic Futures Marketing Group and Director of Strategic Development and Innovation of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world’s leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies, recently interviewed Chris Ramsey of Radian6, to talk about Social Media Monitoring and the emerging interest in the social media space.

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February 14th, 2008
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Radian6 sponsors free download of Aberdeen report on social media monitoring & analysis

Radian6 has sponsored the Aberdeen Report: Social Media Monitoring and Analysis: Generating Consumer Insights from Online Conversation which is now available for download. The report, written by Jeff Zabin and Alex Jefferies, spells out a roadmap for those companies looking to adopt Best-in-Class practices around the use of social media monitoring and analysis. Aberdeen surveyed over 250 organizations and combined this with in depth interviews to come up with the report’s findings and recommendations. Download a free copy of the report by clicking here.

February 4th, 2008
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Distributed Influence Discussion

There is a very productive conversation underway (with lots of debate) about the measurement of distributed influence in Social Media. Jim Tobin of Ignite Social Media added to the discussion this week. My comment on his post is quoted below. If you are interested, the discussion was started by Jonny Bentwood who introduced a concept called the Social Media Index. It widened the concept of influence beyond that of “only” blogs and its corresponding traditional measure of influence: links. He then published a whitepaper on distributed influence which Jim was responding to. If you like this discussion, you might also want to check out other thoughtful contributions on the subject from Kami Huyse, Jason Falls, Chris Newton, Clive Thompson.