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Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends

Adam Sherk

A tactic that some news and content sites employ is monitoring Google’s Hot Trends list in an effort to identify hot topics and then quickly produce matching content around them. Many search trends come and go quickly, so sites that cover a topic after its peak will likely miss out on the larger search engine visibility opportunity.

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What’s your Social Media diet?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

A typical day starts at 6am with answering the new email that came in over night and then some morning reading in my RSS reader (see photo of this mornings Google Reader). Throughout the day I follow toggle between TweetDeck, retweeting good posts and reading new posts on my Google Reader and sharing them (during lunch or after work).

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Is Facebook Suffocating the Rest of Social Media?

Convince & Convert

The number of Creators (people that write blogs and upload video); Critics (people that review products and comment on blogs); Collectors (people that use RSS and social bookmarking sites), and Spectators (people that read blogs and watch videos) ALL went down by 1% to 5%. How about you?

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A Slice of the Federal Government IT Pie

Justin Levy

If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed. Another interesting feature of the site are the interactive trend graphs. The site has been designed to allow visitors to share all of this information via embeds, Twitter , Facebook , and Delicious. Check out this video as an example.

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Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Steve Rubel explores the impact of digital trends on business, culture, media and marketing. I scan 275 RSS feeds in Google Reader and I use dozens of bookmarklets and shortcuts to help me manage it all. This works for any RSS feed, not just bookmarks. Micro Persuasion. « NBA Launches Social Network | Main.

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31+ of the Coolest Social Media, Search and Web Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

A realtime social search engine that pulls current and recent results for any term from Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Digg and Delicious. Josh Rose reviews six “news aggregators (including Popurls , Netvibes and Alltop ) that…are moving beyond the simple RSS reader. Social and Alternative Search Engines.

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The Social Media Monitoring Lighthouse – A Guide on What and How to Monitor

Razor Social

Are you monitoring the trends related to conversations about your brand? whether views are generally positive or negative, and it can identify trends. Emerging Trends. There are tools that will highlight a potential trend before it even happens. Trendspottr is one tool that finds trends before they go viral.