Course agenda – Glasgow June 23rd

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

Brand monitoring and competitor analysis

Powerful brand, reputation and competitor analysis – for free.

Twitter monitoring – Tweetgrid

Another powerful monitoring tool that gives you the heads up on up to 9 terms in real-time. All the monitoring is done automatically and Tweetgrid let you customise the layout and search windows depending on the number of terms you want to cover. For more on Twitter monitoring.

Twitter monitoring – Tweetbeep

Monitor brands, competitors, names or any specific term using tweetbeep. Tweetbeep says the tool is like ‘Google Alerts for Twitter’. Like Google Alerts the service lets you keep track of terms mentioned on Twitter without having to visit the site or consult other monitoring tools. For more on Twitter monitoring.

Twitter monitoring tools

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

Icerocket skates in where Google fears to tread

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

Twitter for Journalists – Webcast

The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism recently organised the webcast: Twitter for Journalists, or everything you wanted to know about Twitter but were afraid to ask.
The event set out to answer questions such as:

How can journalists use it in their day-to-day work?
What are best practices for journalists?
Whose work is, in Twitter terms, worth “following”?

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Journalists and the social web – Oslo Seminar

View my presentations made at the Journalists and the Social Web seminar held in Oslo this week: Mining information from Social Networks, Monitoring News and Journalists and the Semantic Web.

Information overload is just filter failure

Search for the term ‘overload’ in delicious or Digg and you’ll see dozens of stories on ‘information overload’. We’re all drowning under a tsunami of e-mail, RSS, bookmarks and updates – and the story hasn’t moved on for 5 or even 10 years. Someone will soon identify the best 10 posts on the best 10 [...]

Welcome

Welcome to insite. A www.journalism.co.uk blog that will cover everything related to internet research. insite is written and edited by Colin Meek who delivers training courses in Advanced Internet Research for journalism.co.uk the National Union of Journalists and for other clients on an in-house basis.