Our sister blog Findingsalesadvantage has launched a weekly newsletter looking at the ins and outs of social media monitoring for sales. With everything from news, tips and a bit of humour it's a great way of keeping track of the ever growing market throughout 2011 whilst not having to spare too much of your time.

Published every Friday the roundup already has an increasing list of corporate subscribers and to add your name to the list simply send us an email or visit the site.

If you wish to be sent edition one we'll be more than happy to send that through as a catch up too.

The list was determined by a 'G/SCORE' which took into account areas such as product development, team, and business model. It's fantastic to continue picking up accolades such as this, and being recognised as a fast-moving start-up, let alone finishing second, is a real honour for the team.

To see the list in full see the Innovate!100 site.

What do you think of the list? Debate the results with us @artesians

Next week Artesian Solutions will be returning to the 2010 edition of Le Web in Paris. As ever it is a great opportunity to mingle with some of the experts in the web space and demo to the floor the benefits of social media monitoring and tracking your market for web based sales leads. We'll be there as part of the Microsoft Bizspark programme and would like to thank the Bizspark team for another invite to attend.

During the few days we'll be looking to get interviews with participants about how they view social media for business and hopefully intend to produce a few on the spot podcasts (watch this space!).

You can follow the event with us on Twitter @artesians and if you're intending on being there, we'd love to hear to home from you. I'll try desperately now not to sign off with any clichéd French phrases as it's quite a bad trait of mine. Still, C'est la vie ey?

It's devised to give you an overview of where you are compared with your competition when it comes to monitoring and responding to the news available to you.

If you'd like more detail about media monitoring and making the most out of the resources out there by all means get in touch. We'd be delighted to hear from you and more than happy to field any questions you may have.

We're delighted to announce that Artesian are up for another award, this time in the 'best marketing tech start-up' category at this year's Techcrunch awards. Being nominated by Microsoft isn't half bad either!

TechCrunch is a really influential tech blog covering web 2.0 and mobile start ups and it'd be fantastic for us to be recognised with this award.

To vote for us please follow this link and select us from the list provided. Thanks!

To nominate us, or to view the awards in general please visit the site here