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Course agenda – Glasgow June 23rd

By admin ⋅ June 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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

Journalists and the social web – Oslo Seminar

By admin ⋅ October 27, 2008 ⋅ 5 comments

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.

EverNote – 10 reasons why journalists and researchers should love it

By admin ⋅ October 2, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

EverNote is a powerful note-taking tool that works on both Macs and Windows. Not only does it do the basics really well, it boasts a range of stress-relieving features to make your life online a little more pleasant. Looking at it from the perspective of a journalist I found 10 reasons to love it.

Information overload is just filter failure

By admin ⋅ September 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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

By admin ⋅ September 20, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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.

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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.