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Automating social media search

Social Searcher, the social search engine, released version 2 of its API for “social search and media monitoring”. Request real time search results in unified format from 9 social networks: Twitter,...

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Using aggregators

Staying current with news in your field is still most easily done through picking up RSS feeds from websites. Bauke Roesink asked 108 people with blogs or websites what they used. Thirty-nine percent...

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Using Google Alerts

Good advice from Tara Calishain on NANFWRIMO #4 & #5: Strategies for Low-Stress Web Monitoring in Research Buzz (Nov 6, ResearchBuzz). She describes how to use Google Alerts well complete with...

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Building a learning network

These ten ways for creating a personal learning system apply just as well for developing a current awareness – alerting system on any topic and for any learning.

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Twitter for Research

Excellent advice to researchers (though with particular attention to prospect research) on exploiting Twitter for leads, answers, news, updates. Helen Brown and Rachel Dakarian discuss in their podcast...

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Decline of e-pubs on scholarly resources

There are fewer and fewer e-publications with updates on scholarly resources and grey literature. The team at DocuTicker says Farewell – Docubase closed Februrary 2016. The “team” continues to run the...

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Recipes with IFTTT and Reddit

Tara Calashain shows how to use IFTTT (If this, then that) to set up automatic search queries on Reddit where its 8.5 million users post millions of news stories. In it she shows how to set up a recipe...

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Daily Dispatches

For news analysis and extended coverage of current affairs nothing beats the daily newsletter by email. Tweets are too short, and Facebook postings too overwhelming. Here are a few e-newsletters to...

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How to build a web alert

Tremendous article by Tara Calishain at Research Buzz on how she built an “information trap” (ie a web monitoring program) on a subject she knows little about for a client, her husband using methods...

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Monitoring a search

Tara Calishain presents the second part of her tutorial on building an “information trap”. This part provides instructions on using Google Alerts as the monitoring tool, and Google Docs and IFTTT for...

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