The document discusses 10 alternatives to Google alerts for monitoring mentions and conversations across the web, including Social Mention, Yahoo! Alerts, Copernic Tracker, Wysigot, Hyper Alerts, Twitter Search, Ubervu, Buzz Stream, Yotify, and Video Alerts. It provides a brief description of each alternative and notes that they were written about by Chitraparna Sinha on the SocialVani.com website.