Social media monitoring can help with corporate communication and reputation management. It allows companies to track keywords to find mentions of the company online, in articles, comments, and tweets. This helps with information management, issue detection, and having an open dialogue with critics. The document provides an example of monitoring searches related to Germany's 2011 Census, finding over 30,000 mentions on Twitter and other sources. It discusses how social media monitoring can support communication strategies by filtering useful criticism and addressing requests.