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Course agenda – Glasgow June 23rd

Agenda for Advanced Internet Research course for the NUJ on June 23rd.

Zhift relaunched

The new forum search Zhift is relaunched.

Twitter monitoring tools

Headsup on a range of tools that lets you monitor Twitter posts in real-time.

Search single function websites

SingleFunction is a showcase of single function website using crystal clear presentation, short but helpful summaries and user ratings.

Oh My God – another alternative search engine

Omgili – when you want to find out what people are saying.

WhoIsHostingThis for more information about sites

Following up on my post on tools for looking at people behind sites here’s another excellent tool for pushing things forward. WhoIsHostingThis? can give you that last piece of the jigsaw that is missing from standard ‘whois’ lookups – the name of the hosting provider.
Standard ‘whois’ lookup tools give you the name of the ‘datacenter’ [...]

People behind sites – an insite guide

Looking for strategies to find out about people behind sites? While there are dozens of sites that perform Whois lookups and site analyses, there still seems to be confusion about the various tools that exist.

Reverse lookup tools added to Pipl.com

One of the best people search engines adds a series of reverse lookup features including e-mail addresses and usernames.

Icerocket skates in where Google fears to tread

Icerocket launches some incredibly useful features for tracking rapidly changing web content.

Phil Bradley's weblog: Yasni people search

The people search tool ‘pipl.com’ has had a lot of coverage and praise over the past year. Another tool that pulls information about people from a range of social networking sources and databases is Yasni. Thanks to Phil Bradley for his useful review. More on Yasni to follow.

Get to grips with advanced techniques

Colin's next Advanced Internet Research course will be held in July 2009 - dates soon. This course covers advanced search engine techniques, investigative strategies, making the most of social networking and social bookmarking sites and much more. This course is delivered in partnership with journalism.co.uk.

For more details see the journalism.co.uk course page.

"This course has really broadened my mind on ways to use the internet. It was fascinating and hugely helpful." - Alexandra Culliford. European Service Network. May, 2008.

"I found this course both enjoyable and educational – the presentation style was informal yet effective and it was most beneficial being in a small group. The tutor is clearly highly experienced and proficient in the subject and his enthusiasm for it came through." - Michelle Marshall, editor of European Cleaning Journal. February, 2009.

"Brilliant course, packed full with information, practical advice and tools." - Tara Evans. This is Money. 2008.