Advanced Techniques

Course agenda – Glasgow June 23rd

By admin ⋅ June 21, 2009 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

I’ll be running a course for the NUJ in Glasgow on June 23rd. Here is the agenda.
This course is fully booked but I’ll be running another course for journalism.co.uk in July. See here for more information about that course.

Course Modules

Core Module 1 Introduction to Advanced Internet Research.
Different tools for different jobs
Search strategy
Directories, search engines and meta search engines

2 Starting to focus
Faster searching
Important Google commands

Core Module 3 Precision Surfing
Using ‘advanced operators’
Combining commands

Core Module 4a Finding people and finding out about people
Using and searching social networks
Using and searching listservs and online forums
Other key tools

4b People behind sites
Investigating sites

Core module 5 Investigative internet Research
Google hacking. Searching for and accessing site directories.

6 Anonymous surfing

Core module 7 Search tools
Accessing past internet content
Monitoring future content
Getting the most out of RSS feeds

Core module 8 The ‘Invisible Web’
Accessing data hidden from search engines

9 An introduction to the semantic web and web3.0

Core module 10 Sorting and storing your research using online tools

11 Your own privacy and site reliability

I am @colinmeek on Twitter.

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