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07 Sep, 2010

Google news alerts

Posted by: DrS In: mcom407

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Google news alerts are also a great way to follow your beat. Set up an alert for your search terms (“Maryland” and “tea party” for example) and Google will email you whenever it finds a news story on the subject. Google Alerts sign up page

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07 Sep, 2010

Making smart use of RSS feeds

Posted by: DrS In: mcom257|mcom407

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I keep tabs on over 164 websites everyday. And I’m about to add 60 more–the blogs you’ve set up for this class. I used to keep a long list of bookmarks to organize my web reading. But it was onerous setting up those lists, opening all of the websites one by one (only to find [...]

10 Jun, 2010

My Google Reader strategy

Posted by: DrS In: blog

My Google Reader shared items

If you follow me on Google Reader (87 of you do), you know that I share news items there. A lot. About four or five a day, in fact. If you’ve wondered what I’m doing, here’s my Google Reader strategy: First, I’m curating news items (mostly local and industry items) that I think are specifically [...]

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Stacy Spaulding teaches journalism and new media at Towson University.

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