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Using Rss To Research A Topic Or Competition

Posted by Anonymous on 10/23/2008 at 4:28 PM ET 500 Points
I was wondering if anyone has found an easy way to research a topic or competitor on a daily basis. I was thinking of using RSS feeds that would feed into a iGoogle home page to monitor multiple web sources. However, that wont help me if I am interested in a particular topic (e.g. yogurt) or a particular industry or competitor (e.g. health care or Subaru). Plus, it wont captures what is being shared in blogs across the internet on the particular research topic. I was thinking that maybe I could use Digg or Delicious to do the daily research. I know there are companies that you can pay to do this type of research -- but I can't afford to go that route.
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  • Posted on 10/23/2008 at 4:36 PM Accepted
    Try Google alerts or Yahoo alerts. You can type key words (e.g., yogurt, health care, or Subaru) and receive daily alerts for media sources that mention these words.

    https://alerts.yahoo.com/

    https://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en

    As far as blogs are concerned, you can use Technorati to find those on certain topics or key words - many blogs have the capability to provide email updates each day.

    Good luck!
  • Posted on 10/23/2008 at 4:41 PM Accepted
    I swear by daily-digest Google Alerts; I have them on lots of terms.

    As for blogs, Technorati lets you search and then subscribe to the RSS feed of that search term (in your RSS feeder you get the daily results of the search).

    I also manually search Twitter and occasional other sources every few days.
  • Posted by Peter (henna gaijin) on 10/23/2008 at 9:38 PM Member
    I 3rd the nomination of Google Alerts.
  • Posted by Mikee on 10/24/2008 at 10:08 AM Accepted
    I too use Google Alerts. Try to be as specific as possible so that you do not get results for many things you are not concerned about.

    I also use technocrati.com to see what people are blogging about in my field. Sometimes I even will particpate in the comment part of the blog to get my name out there more. I do not think technocrati has a daily digest. I think you have to do your search every once in awhile.

    Does anyone know if you can get technocrati to email you search results daily?

    Mike
  • Posted by Mikee on 10/24/2008 at 10:09 AM Member
    It looks like I need to read more carefully as Sarah had already mentioned you can subscribe via RSS.

    Mike
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