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.

Some great news this week came in the shape of the Innovate!100 list placing Artesian 2nd in a rank of (you've guessed it) 100 "outstanding and fast-moving start-up companies from around the world."

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?

If you would like a free evaluation as to where you currently stand as an organisation when it comes to media monitoring, take our quiz now.

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!

Artesian Solutions are looking to do well at this year's Mashable Awards under the 'Most Promising new company' category. After a stellar year for the company, which has seen