Dear friends and followers, earlier we mentioned a list of 20 Social Media Management Systems by Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang). Recently, Lauren Fisher (@LaurenFisher) posted a list of the best free social media tracking tools over at The Next Web that might be of interest.
From the post:

Measuring social media is one of the areas of online marketing that is still frequently discussed and we still haven’t found that magic number yet! But there are lots of free tools that can help to monitor and track your social media activity to ensure it’s working for you or you’re reaching your targets.
The list presented below is intended as a guide, I don’t recommend you use them all at once, but find the ones that fit best for you and make sure you continually measure and record results, to see how your social media activity is performing overall. [...]
Check out the rest of the post for the list of the best free social media tracking tools.
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