Mining information from social networks

By Julie Starr | Published: January 20, 2009

This slide show gives clear and very useful tips on how well-constructed Google searches can help you find people, groups, company reps in social networks that are otherwise hard to search with any precision. It looks at Bebo, LinkedIn, MySpace and more. A must-watch for journalists created by journalism.co.uk consulting editor Colin Meek.

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http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/01/building-social-networks-around-news/ Building social networks around news » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

[...] See also Colin Meek’s tips: “Mining information from social networks.” [...]

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