Top 7 Social Media Monitoring Tools in 2025

No one likes to be left on ‘seen’ — not your friends, not your partner, and definitely not your social media community. Social media monitoring is the process of tracking your brand mentions, post comments, and direct messages (DMs) on all major social media channels. Sounds simple, right? Reply to every comment, DM, and brand…

Tools and the long tail

Have you ever made a video that was seen by someone you didn’t know? Or written something that got shared outside of your inner circle? The odds of either of these things happening a generation ago were close to zero. Now, it’s common. The skeptics said that people wanted to watch videos, not make them.…

Sorting and choosing | Seth’s Blog

One is far more important than the other. Sorting puts our options into two piles. One pile is the don’t-like, not-good-enough or wrong stack. These are the flavors we don’t enjoy, the paths that are dead ends and the people we simply don’t want to hang out with. The other pile meets spec. The other…

Introducing MCP: A new way to connect Fin and your customer data to your business tools

Delivering great AI customer service depends on more than just sophisticated AI models – it relies on real-time data and access to business systems like CRMs, billing platforms, and past conversations. Without these connections, AI agents are unable to understand customer history and resolve questions as effectively. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides a standard…