I recently learned about How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic, which appeared in ReadWriteWeb, a splendid Web technology news blog.
"We'll walk you through how we identify top blogs on any topic, how we quickly figure out what their most popular recent posts have been about, how we incorporate their blog archives into our knowledge about the field and how we find where else they are participating in conversation around the web."
This is a 13-step outline of how to determine.. well, what the blurb above promises. This is a fabulous cheat-sheet for any info pro who needs to know how to mine the blogosphere. (Yes, it's more than just Technorati!) The author of this post doesn't have a library/research background, but it's written specifically for info pros.
It sometimes lapses into techno-geek, but the structure is IMO spot on:
- Find The Most Popular Blogs in Your Field
- Rank the Blog Posts With Robots
- Banish Content Overload
- Check out the Hotness
- Make a Reference Search Engine
- Discover Community Leaders Elsewhere, Too
Great cheat sheet!
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