I use them myself for researching magazine articles and seeding blog topics. Here's what Greg has to say:
Google Alerts – email or RSS updates of the latest news, web, and blog Google results on any topic of your choice – can be a very helpful tool for anyone who is doing business or trying to build a platform online. What follows in this post, part one of a two part series, is a brief description of why you might set up alerts. Part two will give a brief overview of how to set up basic alerts. There are other alert services, but I quite like the easy, free Google Alerts. So…
Check out his whole list (and stay tuned, because there's a Part 2). [NOTE: THE LINK HAS BEEN UPDATED.]
3 comments:
Hey, Martha, I get an error message when I try to click on the link to get Greg's whole list.
I, too, love google alerts! Easy enough for a techno-goof like me to use.
Martha
I am also having problems with the link.
I love google alerts. I started writing reviews for Library Journal back when I was a librarian and continued for 15 years. Now, thanks to google alerts, I know when one of my 20 year old reviews is being used to sell a book I thought should have gone out of print 20 years ago. It's amazing that they can take the one complimentary sentence from the review and use it to sell a book I thought was trash. Most of the books I reviewed were adequaate or even great, but it's the bad ones that seem to be popping up most often. Oh well, I don't own the rights for the reviews, so not much I can do.
Hi, guys! I fixed the link (that'll teach me not to blog before coffee).
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