Course agenda – Glasgow June 23rd

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

Google’s advanced operators for journalists

Confusion is rife about how and when you can use Google’s advanced operators. Used effectively they can transform your research by helping you get better results faster.

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.

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.

Research anonymity using Tor

Heads up on the Tor Project anonymity online and an embedded introduction by Unwired.

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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