Oh, how neglectful I've been!

Hello everyone! So, I need to apologize for the lack of posts the last week. I've just felt up to posting on here for the last month or so, due to personal circumstances. I'm feeling a bit more like my old self now, I think, so hopefully I'll get back into the swing of things.

I can't think of anything particularly interesting to post about today, so I'll leave you with a phot of Greer looking gorgeous - as usual! :) Hopefully tomorrow I'll have something interesting to write! ;D

10+ Best Free File Hosting Service Providers For You

Most of us like to store our files online and share it to our friends and family. Files include documents, images, videos and files in other format.file hosting services are very benefited to bloggers or webmasters too as they can share their resources to their visitors and readers!

Following is the list of 10+ Best Free File Hosting Service Providers you can use to store and share your files! 

FileFactory

• No file type restrictions.
• Files can be up to 300MB in size.
• Upload up to 25 files at once.
• Upload faster with Turbo.
• Embed widget or music player.
• Share files on blogs, forums, Facebook or MySpace.
• Mix images into slideshows.
• Earn reward for sharing popular files.
• Earn up to $10 per 1,000 downloads.

MediaFire

• Unlimited storage
• Up to 100MB per file
• Unlimited uploads
• Unlimited downloads
• Unlimited bandwidth
• Image galleries
• No sign up required
• No software to install

FileSavr

• Fastest and easiest file hosting service as an alternative to sites like MegaUpload and RapidShare.
• Do not force users to sign up for paid accounts to download files.
• Do not show long countdown timers, pop up ads, or any other spam related activities.
• Upload size is 10 GB

FileQube

• Store up to 2GB free for remote file access.
• Organize, tag, search and move files and folders easily.
• Share files and images with friends, peers or family
• Limit access to resources with password-protection features
• Publish your photos, documents, audio, or video anywhere
• Create custom rss-feed for every folder you share to give your visitors ability to track updates.
• Tag your resources for more order and faster search.
• Instantly share your files with others – skipping download page.

FileDen

• Hotlinking allowed for all allowed file extensions, including videos and music files.
• 1GB of personal storage space.
• A 50mb maximum file size limit.
• 5GB of monthly bandwidth.

SaveFile

• 100MB Filesize
• Unlimited Diskspace
• Unlimited Traffic
• Sorted by Projects
• Password Protection
• Replace Files
• File Statistics
• Project Statistics
• User Subscriptions

FileHosting

• Unlimited file hosting.
• 2 GB/sec bandwidth.
• 20 highspeed server.
• You can upload any type of file (movies, music, documents, images, zip files and more).
• Any file in any format can be uploaded and downloaded for free.
• No file size limit.
• No restrictions on the number of times a file can be downloaded.
• Keep your files private, or send your download links only to friends or family.
• Share your download links on blogs, forums and social networking sites.

Uploading

• Download speed limited
• Maximum parallel download – 1
• Maximum upload size per file – 100 Mb
• Download limit per 24 hours – 300 Mb
• Wait time before the download begins – 60 seconds
• Earn cash with your files.

WikiUpload

• Upload any files upto 5GB that do not violate their Terms of Service
• Share files on forums or with friends
• If your file is public, they also place the file in right public category based on your tags and description

FileSend

• 300 MB file size limit
• Manage uploaded files
• Recover lost file links
• Less download wait time

FileSave

• 100% Free
• Upto 1Gb Free Disk Space
• Upto 1Gb Per File
• No Sign Up Required
• Upload Music, Videos, and all other files.
• Share with your friends

InfiniteMB

• Free File Image Audio Video
• 500Mb per file
• Highest Upload Speeds
• Unlimited Downloads
• Share files via e-mail, forums, MySpace, etc.

ZippyShare

• Completely free, reliable and extremely popular.
• Extremely fast download speeds.
• The maximum filesize for a single file is 100 MB.
• The file can be downloaded at any time and as often as you need it.
• File Life: 30 days after no activity.
• No ridiculous queues.
• No limits.

Box

• 5 collaboration folders
• 1 GB of storage
• 25 MB file uploads

Hope this post was useful to you! Drop Comments!
Have a great time! 

And have a nice day..!

LK Magazine v3 Premium Blogger Template

This is the Third version of LK Magazine Blogger Template Series.These template is by "Premium Templates" Has corrected  many weaknesses of LK magazine v2 blogger template and add some features from Prozine Blogger Template to this template.To configure this template correctly, read the instruction given below.Like LK Magazine v2 blogger template,I think you will like this blogger template very much.The features of this template as given below.

Template Features

• Column: 4 Columns/3 Sidebars/Right Sidebars/Left Sidebar
• Fixed Width Template (1000px width)
• 2 Horizontal Navigation Menus
• Auto Read More Feature with Thumbnails.
• 468*60 Header Ads banner
• 125*125 Sidebar Banners
• 468*60 Header Logo with the PSD file and Fonts.
• 1 CSS Search Box
• 1 Multi Tab View Widget installed.
• 1 Featured Auto content slider installed.
• 3 Column Footer section
• Facebook Like Button installed.
• SEO friendly blogger title hack installed to help you rank higher in Google
• Blogger Default Heading Tag has Changed for better SEO
• Meta tags installed
• Top Bar with Feed buttons and Display Day,Month,Year
• Hosted images on blogger. Free use forever!
• Favicon support so you can add your own url icon
• Compressed CSS to speed up your page load times
• Embedded JavaScript date code showing current day
• Built-in Related Posts Widget to show Related posts
• Numbered Page Navigation Hack Installed
• Replace "Older Posts","Home","Newer Posts" Text Navigation with Images
• Automatically highlight author comments
• Modified Comments Section to Enable Avatars in Blogger Comments
• More ...

Demo Download Template name : LK Magazine version 3 Template type : 3 Sidebar, 4 Column, 3 Column footer, Featured Section, Fixed width, Header Banner, Left Sidebar, Magazine, Premium, Right Sidebar, Slider, Tabbed widget, Top Navigation Bar, White Release date : 08-29-2010

Template Layout Structure

3 Column Footer Section

Template Customization


Basic Template Installation:

1.First download the template and unzip the file.

2.Now, sign in to Blogger dashboard and click on the layout.

3.Here is the important step, after uploading any new Blogger template, all of the previous widgets like your google adsense ads,text,profile,poll,etc etc will be lost.
So, to avoid this to happen, in this step click on 'edit' on all the widgets and copy the codes into notepad,etc.

4.Now click on the 'Edit html' tab

5.First of all please Download Full Template.This is to back up your present template.If the new template that you are going to upload makes/gets into some errors or if you make more complex errors in that,then you will loose everthing.So make sure that you back up your template.

6.Just below that,there's an option of uploading new template.So, use the Browse button and upload the downloaded xml file.

7.Now, a message appear saying that your widgets are about to be deleted.Click on the Confirm & Save (no problem doing this because we already copied the widget codes in Step 3).

8.Now click on "confirm and save".Now you successfully installed the template.

8.Click on the 'Page elements' page now and add the codes that you copied in step3 using the 'Add a Page Element' option.

Configure Meta tags

Login to your blogger dashboard--> layout- -> Edit HTML.Now Scroll down to where you see below codes :

<meta content='DESCRIPTION HERE' name='description'/>

<meta content='KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/>

Replace DESCRIPTION HERE,KEYWORDS HERE as below.

DESCRIPTION HERE:Write your blog description
KEYWORDS HERE:Write the keywords of your blog separated by comma.

Configure First and Second Navigation Bar

Login to your blogger dashboard--> layout- -> Edit HTML.Now Scroll down to where you see below code:

<li><a href='Your-Link-Here' title='Link-Title'>Link-Name-X</a>

Now Replace Your-Link-Here,Link-Title,Link-Name-X with your details.

Configure Header logo

Login to your blogger dashboard--> layout- -> Edit HTML.Now Scroll down to where you see below line :

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQxJ9ay6_q1sQlnx701eSZ6iDMZ7ZilNgXKZ1Zzc-kJ_-v49JKu6t8AdgPg9bJFJyq3UckTPdmVoo-DKjMr22Q-KVMr9iWczG63pp1ficfZodNvCQFGeIMC5b165ohTpz-tNzz__uHunE/ Magazine v3 logo.png

Now replace it with your logo address/url.

Configure Subscription Box:

Add this code into the HTML/JavaScript box.

<div class='subsboxfull'>

<a href='your-twitter-url' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='twitter'><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXNSey8HzpLZd3wfFr6FmuwurDiAYYHy8QpQXsOgLbPd6E00hEt0AjJLtTwn4w7YOXgwhdSnFu-NCl_WCbtWPotlgNp63rxVIsMiBzDkfRNm8EaSsmBAGJtjq8Wo-AO8DnG9GQC0wWeNI/" /></a>

<a href='your-facebook-url' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='facebook'><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg3NvUvcI29pQZpitADTG62374SeM1W-23fRcKSeCkapU4PYIY7C_8WIXyTbw_Av5l69SMmBRXz1h80jDYuEbC7az_-0g6HbbRt5a_MaeFQYo9Ckl-HSR_a-k-puW2_UuesKxz1zfk-vs/s1600/facebook--box.png" /></a>

<a href='your-delicious-url' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='delicious'><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY0Go3mUoct1wasLyRE15FPvGyeq4qZp1q2zBauqB_7UiO9XqmGk7TLElXd8T0DebMNqxjNu42Qmh33MGjIhuaohvcjZTAEjo0lHhQDGRlEfMEJiZ9Me784toaXHQCmZpRBy9V43rq4Ks/s1600/delicious-box.png" /></a>

<a href='your-stumbleupon-url' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='stumbleupon'><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnczJvDCjPOIaPb5MiFdYENmatgcko9vwZBNOqUiwmHTFu1u_s8dB4ElO3FB6_WubQI-fkYLvdiUPm0HFNSPMYWaOwfJ5QUqnop19uNvuiOeD8dS5KSC2w_yY0gEtW9ENfH3pw2qGezGs/" /></a>

<a href='your-linkedin-url' title='linkedin'><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg18DSasTn7dvQEHKJj_qAoi8ypli4IOYGHLvtMwtwfDi25_ylq-SYIMloyjKc5tFejYw8EbJP0ahhDy5W-yXbIVa3u64NLYiONC_k1-jJlOmwtD9wgJL3CoWHKLcU5uxW6L-EC5KhpMUU/" /></a>

<a href='your-contact-url' title='contact'><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZNFgwg7cpicyzKWNZOZzZpTIVF49OZhTsFUTxSsbRs0Chleus-eZowSsG1Xqi_N1HGWAsPy1VcAEKrAO8ci8HvrW0zH3Zn94ZDS5ONmlauPQRTBxVLhNfNdz_cdvqZre2HVsGcHnmAfs/" /></a>

<form action='http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=YOUR-FEEDBURNER-ID&loc=en_u' method='post' onsubmit='window.open(\'http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=YOUR-FEEDBURNER-ID', \'popupwindow\', \'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520\');return true' target='popupwindow'><p><input name="email" style="width:230px; border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 5px;" type="text" value="Enter your email address" /></p><input name="uri" type="hidden" /><input name="loc" type="hidden" value="en_US" /></form>

<p><span><a class='rss-boxicon' href='http://feeds2.feedburner.com/YOUR-FEEDBURNER-ID' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>RSS</a></span>
<span><a class='email-boxicon' href='http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=YOUR-FEEDBURNER-ID&loc=en_u' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>Email</a><span><span style="float:right;"><a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOUR-FEEDBURNER-ID' rel='nofollow'><img alt="" height="26" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/YOUR-FEEDBURNER-ID?bg=ff9900&amp;fg=000033&amp;anim=0" style="border:0;float:right;margin-top:0px;" width="88" /></a></span></span></span></p>

</div>

Now Replace,
your-twitter-url, your-facebook-url, your-delicious-url, your-stumbleupon-url, your-linkedin-url,your-contact-url, YOUR-FEEDBURNER-ID with your details.


Configure Multi Tab view widget:

Add this code into the HTML/JavaScript box.

<div id='tabzine'>

<ul class='tabnav'>
<li class='pop'><a href='#tab11'>Video</a></li>
<li class='fea'><a href='#tab22'>Recent</a></li>
<li class='rec'><a href='#tab33'>Popular</a></li>
</ul>


<!-- tab1 -->
<div class='tabdiv' id='tab11'>

ENTER-TAB-1-CONTENT-HERE

</div>
<!--/tab1-->


<!-- tab2 -->
<div class='tabdiv' id='tab22'>

ENTER-TAB-2-CONTENT-HERE

</div>
<!-- tab2 -->


<!-- tab3 -->
<div class='tabdiv' id='tab33'>

ENTER-TAB-3-CONTENT-HERE

</div>
<!-- /tab3 -->


</div>

Now Replace,
ENTER-TAB-1-CONTENT-HERE, ENTER-TAB-2-CONTENT-HERE, ENTER-TAB-3-CONTENT-HERE with your contents.

How To Add Search Box

Add this code into the HTML/JavaScript box.

<div id='search' style='display:inline;'>

<form action='/search' id='searchform' method='get'>
<input id="s" name="q" type="text" value="" />
<input id="searchsubmit" type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
</div>

How To Configure Favicon:

Login to your blogger dashboard--> layout- -> Edit HTML.Now Scroll down to where you see below code:

<link href='YOUR-FAVICON-URL' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/vnd.microsoft.icon'/>

Now replace "YOUR-FAVICON-URL" with your Favicon address/url.


Configure Featured Content Slider:

Add this code into the HTML/JavaScript box.

<script type="text/javascript">
stepcarousel.setup({
galleryid: 'mygallery', //id of carousel DIV
beltclass: 'belt', //class of inner "belt" DIV containing all the panel DIVs
panelclass: 'panel', //class of panel DIVs each holding content
autostep: {enable:true, moveby:1, pause:3000},
panelbehavior: {speed:500, wraparound:true, persist:true},
defaultbuttons: {enable: true, moveby: 1, leftnav: ['https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCvgS-5rjKg1KmQ2vVYOgqfy1Kn_h3g_CRrgz3pFQBZJnk7obsTmTogk6wCa0IccaeMC0pPU_-a-Z5Qofqy4as8PnSE9Ih-Ia9cVRpc4wem0-WMrKAu7ZnUlz2D51zrfTt8FP_U8bliI8/', -29, 90], rightnav: ['https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTKMkG4LC9lMUjM0o14gdDOQhgfQJ9w73zF8oxbTSMnLs5S2075RbZQ14_dCRrcjQFo0bh91sgzsiRMLjFIHjYQKQQ4mcvScTHtpZUpQkxXq_HAxd9YpcEACrLCSo9kXcqD_Ysuauk8m4/s1600/fleche2.png', -18, 90]},
statusvars: ['statusA', 'statusB', 'statusC'], //register 3 variables that contain current panel (start), current panel (last), and total panels
contenttype: ['inline'] //content setting ['inline'] or ['external', 'path_to_external_file']
})


</script>


<div id="slider">
<div id="mygallery" class="stepcarousel">
<div class="belt">

<div class="panel">
<img src="Slider-1-Image-Address-Here" alt="" />
<h2><a href="Slider-1-Link-Here">Slider-1-Title-Here</a></h2>
<p>Enter-Slider-1-Description-Here</p>
</div>


<div class="panel">
<img src="Slider-2-Image-Address-Here" alt="" />
<h2><a href="Slider-2-Link-Here">Slider-2-Title-Here</a></h2>
<p>Enter-Slider-2-Description-Here</p>
</div>


<div class="panel">
<img src="Slider-3-Image-Address-Here" alt="" />
<h2><a href="Slider-3-Link-Here">Slider-3-Title-Here</a></h2>
<p>Enter-Slider-3-Description-Here</p>
</div>

<div class="panel">
<img src="Slider-4-Image-Address-Here" alt="" />
<h2><a href="Slider-4-Link-Here">Slider-4-Title-Here</a></h2>
<p>Enter-Slider-4-Description-Here</p>
</div>

<div class="panel">
<img src="Slider-5-Image-Address-Here" alt="" />
<h2><a href="Slider-5-Link-Here">Slider-5-Title-Here</a></h2>
<p>Enter-Slider-5-Description-Here</p>
</div>


</div>
</div>
</div>

<div style='border-top:1px solid #050505;border-bottom:1px solid #353434;height:0px;width:100%;'/></div>

Now Replace Slider-X-Image-Address-Here, Slider-X-Link-Here, Slider-5-Title-Here, Enter-Slider-5-Description-Here with your contents.Look at the example below:

<script type="text/javascript">
stepcarousel.setup({
galleryid: 'mygallery', //id of carousel DIV
beltclass: 'belt', //class of inner "belt" DIV containing all the panel DIVs
panelclass: 'panel', //class of panel DIVs each holding content
autostep: {enable:true, moveby:1, pause:3000},
panelbehavior: {speed:500, wraparound:true, persist:true},
defaultbuttons: {enable: true, moveby: 1, leftnav: ['https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCvgS-5rjKg1KmQ2vVYOgqfy1Kn_h3g_CRrgz3pFQBZJnk7obsTmTogk6wCa0IccaeMC0pPU_-a-Z5Qofqy4as8PnSE9Ih-Ia9cVRpc4wem0-WMrKAu7ZnUlz2D51zrfTt8FP_U8bliI8/', -29, 90], rightnav: ['https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTKMkG4LC9lMUjM0o14gdDOQhgfQJ9w73zF8oxbTSMnLs5S2075RbZQ14_dCRrcjQFo0bh91sgzsiRMLjFIHjYQKQQ4mcvScTHtpZUpQkxXq_HAxd9YpcEACrLCSo9kXcqD_Ysuauk8m4/s1600/fleche2.png', -18, 90]},
statusvars: ['statusA', 'statusB', 'statusC'], //register 3 variables that contain current panel (start), current panel (last), and total panels
contenttype: ['inline'] //content setting ['inline'] or ['external', 'path_to_external_file']
})




</script>




<div id="slider">
<div id="mygallery" class="stepcarousel">
<div class="belt">


<div class="panel">
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_jlFKwYrBJrtmo1ru0qE1q7eBToPricWrfsyCN25iEBiuS_N-WPj3O_xQ9-m5IRXvxz6I_Sx-R9vwT1aLX7GzNcdtD2r2H8gRqUZ-gxqkP-PoSNcUCgdAb2f6z419gvJzXhyboqhkvJU/s1600/slide1.jpg" alt="" />
<h2><a href="Slider-1-Link-Here">Slider-1-Title-Here</a></h2>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem. Nulla consequat massa quis enim.</p>
</div>




<div class="panel">
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvtFDr51gR2USmUeDAp-NFBjGarRoi3M9v3Z4NJxXZQX0B9RlFZ3hAkR__1votTivJIO0427e_nyUL6DLFxoViQrBaqIrfWfuDs1zRaY4lBMr9l-C2U3O_p-UxCumxqwVP7sO884Zw34/s1600/slide2.jpg" alt="" />
<h2><a href="Slider-2-Link-Here">Slider-2-Title-Here</a></h2>
<p>In enim justo, rhoncus ut, imperdiet a, venenatis vitae, justo. Nullam dictum felis eu pede mollis pretium. Integer tincidunt. Cras dapibus. Vivamus elementum semper nisi. Aenean vulputate eleifend tellus. Aenean leo ligula, porttitor eu, consequat vitae, eleifend ac, enim. Aliquam lorem ante, dapibus in, viverra quis, feugiat a, tellus. Phasellus viverra nulla ut metus varius laoreet.</p>
</div>




<div class="panel">
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTUramZxRRygdfMyfD7U3uiT41HoUUPgW8TByYPlzJpIHidu31v0J4VbzgREPVRwxPosMV3ZZ2SUDY2OAbhGTkRTPAZ2QoIR_ive82MSMuBT_fk3turoRBOB-FJ5yO9Zrwo7zxcxUwZr4/s1600/slide3.jpg" alt="" />
<h2><a href="Slider-3-Link-Here">Slider-3-Title-Here</a></h2>
<p>Aenean imperdiet. Etiam ultricies nisi vel augue. Curabitur ullamcorper ultricies nisi. Nam eget dui. Etiam rhoncus. Maecenas tempus, tellus eget condimentum rhoncus, sem quam semper libero, sit amet adipiscing sem neque sed ipsum. Nam quam nunc, blandit vel, luctus pulvinar, hendrerit id, lorem.</p>
</div>


<div class="panel">
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc9BItD3J2na34_n5m4HMwHatEDuhy1iApgHZcGgQV9ZqOJTh6tLWuUVfYC1zPfsK6Blez7XbqVlmtIarI62dcr0HLwx4BUeAHM9a7iEhGC1_DF751qkGoKJ2JXoyGugEJkExD-TdlUpw/s1600/slide4.jpg" alt="" />
<h2><a href="Slider-4-Link-Here">Slider-4-Title-Here</a></h2>
<p> dui quis mi consectetuer lacinia. Nam pretium turpis et arcu. Duis arcu tortor, suscipit eget, imperdiet nec, imperdiet iaculis, ipsum. Sed aliquam ultrices mauris. Integer ante arcu, accumsan a, consectetuer eget, posuere ut, mauris. Praesent adipiscing. Phasellus ullamcorper ipsum rutrum nunc. Nunc nonummy metus. Vestibulum volutpat pretium libero. Cras id dui.</p>
</div>


<div class="panel">
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrQfA6P7__XPi4_WQWyIfg2Q4AHhv59pWIwMmWHoqVkHdwNqepZvLXwiBM4tfob0tm3XfQUVryKLFkHpSANN0earxq_54gFg5Xg-gGjFBPBnaVYqgSNlrkg3x6DotPeK4n4n5y39_xsWM/s1600/slide5.jpg" alt="" />
<h2><a href="Slider-5-Link-Here">Slider-5-Title-Here</a></h2>
<p>Aenean tellus metus, bibendum sed, posuere ac, mattis non, nunc. Vestibulum fringilla pede sit amet augue. In turpis. Pellentesque posuere. Praesent turpis. Aenean posuere, tortor sed cursus feugiat, nunc augue blandit nunc, eu sollicitudin urna dolor sagittis lacus.</p>
</div>




</div>
</div>
</div>


<div style='border-top:1px solid #050505;border-bottom:1px solid #353434;height:0px;width:100%;'/></div>

Configure "Blog Posts" Widget

Login to your blogger dashboard--> layout- -> Page elements.Click on "Edit" form "Blog Posts" Section.Now change it value as the picture below:

Important !!!:

Please do not remove the footer credit. I spend several hours to create this blogger template. So that you can use it for your blog. All I ask is, stay the credit intact.

License: 

This free Blogger template is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License,which permits both personal and commercial use.
However, to satisfy the 'attribution' clause of the license, you are required to keep the footer links intact which provides due credit to its authors. For more specific details about the license, you may visit the URL below:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Please Pass Your Valuable Feedback Through Comments....!

11 Social Media Tools for Measuring and Monitoring Social Media Analytics

Social Media Monitoring ? That’s an often heard but a meaningless term to many of us, right ? Many think that there is no ROI to Social Media, and while this topic is up for debate, I’m saying – yes and no.
No because, we know that we don’t get social for the game sake. And yes because, there are brands and products who needs numbers and obviously results, for getting social.
Many brands are jumping into the social media bandwagon these days and are experimenting with things, that’s a fact. Many a times, knowingly or unknowingly we have engaged with them as well. So it makes sense for them to monitor it and see what the results are like.
Having said that, monitoring social media is not the regular analytics stuff, that’s where many go wrong.

- Social Media shouldn’t be measured like SEO analytics on your site.

Heck, you won’t even see the referrals as good as an SEM campaign with social media. The thing is, in social media the action is elsewhere and not necessarily does reflect on your site referral stats all the time. Now, don’t get me wrong but I’m not trying to say that if you have something to sell, at the end of the day, it doesn’t. In fact it might sell, but just that the numbers might not look round as in an SEO analytics report.

- Social Media measurement has got to do with many “intangible” signals.

Now, this is a grey area but measuring social media (at least at this point of time) has got a lot to do with “intangible” or “volatile” signals. Like “feel good factor” for a brand, which can be perceived if you ask someone about it but never shows up in the referral stats.

- Social Media monitoring is probably a better word than Social Media measurement.

Why ? Because social media isn’t always about the numbers and formulas. Its more about the “perception”, “engagement” and “emotions”.

Phew ! I hope all that made sense. Now, on to some social media monitoring tools.

Honestly, many of these tools are “not-really-there”. But these are the ones we have anyways. They mostly focus on the numbers unfortunately, while some focus is also give to brand perceptions and engagement ratios. I’d like to see more tools coming up that focuses on the second part rather than the numbers. But that require some level of intelligence and I guess we’re all in a learning mode at the moment.

1. Radian6 – Social Media Monitoring Tool

Ridian6 is a popular social media monitoring tool that helps you track quite a lot of signals and get insights into your brands performance on various social media channels. They cover almost all the social media channels like blogs, twitter and facebook. It provides detailed analytics reports and charts, perfect for that presentation you want to pull off.

2. Alterian Social Media Monitoring Tools

Alterian’s SM2 social media monitoring tool is one that gives advanced user behavior statistics, measures and analyze daily volume, demographics, location, positive or negative content tone, themes, and trending topics for your brand/product. A little too much details but a good tool nevertheless. This one too, covers a range of social media channels like digg/linkedin/facebook/twitter/delicious etc.

3. ScoutLabs Web based Social Media Monitoring Tool

An eye candy this one. Scout Labs social media monitoring tool is web based, and with an interface like Google Analytics it tracks almost all the online social media channels. It measures all the negative/positive signals and gives you reports based on the overall performaces.

4. Real Time Social Media Monitoring Tool – Self Service

Self-service analytics software supports both qualitative and quantitative research, providing automated semantic analytics to allow you to explore insights and opinions about your products and brands on social media. It claims that the platform automatically captures large, relevant data sets through topic categorization.

5. Social Mention – Web based social media monitoring

Social Mention is a web based tool that makes it simple. It finds the brand mentions on any particular channel like blog/micro blogs and gives you a comprehensive idea of how the brand is perceived by users. It also gives you idea about the general “perception” of the brand in terms like positive, negative or neutral.

6. Brands Eye – Web based Social Media Measuring tool

This one is a bit different from the rest of the lot. It picks up signals from social media mentions and puts them into a different perspective unlike others. It finds you details about reputation, media origin and sentiments associated to your brand. Impressive !

7. Trendrr – Real Time Social Media Monitoring tool

Trendrr is a very web 3.0 kind app that does real time digital/social media monitoring for you. It analyzes social media channels for your brand mentions and puts them into perspective with numbers. Their data sources include everything from Blogs to Microblogs, Search, Social Networks and even Video.

8. Spark – Social Media Monitoring Visualizer tool

Spiral16′s spark takes social media analytics to a higher level, making it visual and thus making it easy to interpret and compare. They claim that the data is not the regular one, not limited to RSS feeds as a data source, instead combines proprietary crawler technology with public search engines. Spark captures a wider breadth of data and more goes into more detail about web pages, resulting in less spam and more relevant results.

9. MAP – Social Media Analytics Tool

Sysomos’s MAP – Media Analytics Program is another social media analytics program that focuses on the core concepts of social media – listen > measure > understand and engage. The tool provides real-time intelligence to manage products, brands and reputations on social media.

10. Attentio – Social Media Trends / Analytics Tool

Basically what attentio does is collect information from all social media channels related to brands and products, assimilate and study it to give you structured data. Its advantage is that its multilingual and have more of a brand centric focus.

11. DNA 13 Media Monitoring Tool

DNA 13′s media monitoring tool focuses more on a comprehensive media coverage model much like a PR tool. While I’m not a big fan of this model, the tool sure gives us a lot of insight on how and why a brand is performing well/bad on the media channels. They claim that they could provide a TV, print, online news, social media, and RSS feeds, all in one location “umbrella” strategy, which is interesting.

So, Which is the best Social Media Monitoring Tool out there ?

There is no one single social media measuring tool. You have here a bunch of the best social media monitoring tools out there. As I said, most of them do the same job of indexing and finding your brand in the discussions, but the ones that excel do a good job at finding value out of those analytics data, and putting things to perspective. The idea is to mix and match and make use of the best ones from the lot.

If you know more of such tools, please do let me know 

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