Efficient sourcing of online informationAvinash Meetoo – Managing-Director of

Outline

•Sourcing information

•Using Google Search

•From websites

•From social networks

•Managing information overload

•Collecting & Filtering

•Organising

•Publishing

Sourcing information efficiently

Using Google Search

•PageRank

•Basic search syntax

•Advanced search syntax

Finding authoritative blogs

•Using local knowledge

•Using Technorati

•Using Google Blog Search

Exploring news media

Citizen media Mainstream media

Institutional websites?

Official Business

Leveraging Wikipedia

•Current events

•History & discussions

•Most popular pages

Exploring Facebook

•Finding contacts

•Finding interesting facts

•Reaching audiences

•Building a community

Exploring Twitter

•Searching for information

•Engage with people

•Discovering trends

Managing information overload

Collecting & Filtering

•RSS feeds syndication

•Recommendations

•Searching Twitter

Organising information

•Tagging and bookmarking

•Deferred reading

•Offline reading

Publishing information

•Blogging

•Curated publishing

• “Rinse and repeat”

Thank you!

Avinash Meetoo

Managing-Director of

avinash@knowledge7.comwww.knowledge7.com

Office: 464-7446 Mobile: 493-9394