I’ve been using Google Alerts for some time to track the online visibility of faculty and researchers here at WCER and other topics of interest to me professionally and personally. I like Alerts because you have lots of options, including tracking online news stories, or blogs, or news groups, or a comprehensive search of all the above. You get a notification email once a day, once a week, or as it happens, depending on your choice. You register for a free Google account and start keying in the phrases you want Alerts to track, for example “teacher salaries” or “autism” or “educational podcast” or “educational technology”, then you get a separate email for each subject you track.
If you want to try it out, here’s the link.
Happy hunting.
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