Analytics Magazine Analytics Magazine, September/October 2014 | Page 49

Figure 1: Five measures of social media karma. within the image, which makes the multimedia work. The metric of interest here would be a mixture of the sentimental response to your posts and the contextual messages contained in those posts. Sentiment analysis is a simple enough exercise in an open sourced platform like R or other online sources, which can provide a rundown of the positive and negative views for each post. A contextual analysis of each post based on its theme can help users understand why a specific post is more preferred compared to the others. An eventual insight from this exercise should help users figure out why a a na l y t i c s customer likes a post and how they feel about it. Many social media listening centers set up by big corporate houses focus specifically on this part – real-time management of sentiments and assuaging the angry customer. Measure 4: The “When” – When does a time-bound game plan work according to the plan? Time is one of the most critical elements of a soc X[YYXH