Journalism - J4450 Reporting and Writing I

Twitter Tools:

• Tweetdeck a social media dashboard application for management of Twitter accounts.
• Twitter Analytics provides Twitter analytics
• Twitonomy analyzes Twitter account activity
• BackTweets search for links on Twitter
• Buffer schedules the release of your tweets

Google Search Tools:

• Google Search Features (operators, filters, etc.)
• Google Trends - current search trends
• The Google Public Data Explorer makes large data sets easy to explore, visualize and communicate.
• Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
• Google News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives.
• Create charts with Google Charts.
• Google's Ngram Viewer lets you search keywords in millions of books over the span of half a millennium, a useful tool for finding trends over time.
• Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps
• Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based on satellite imagery.

Facebook Search Tools:

• Facebook graph searching
  • 1Intelligence Facebook graph search
  • Graph tips by Henk van Ess
  • Social Media Examiner's: How to use Facebook graph searching to improve your marketing

YouTube Search Tools:

• Google YouTube search support
• How to find almost anything on YouTube (Gizmodo)

Other Real Time Search Tools

• BuzzSumo searches the most shared content across the four main social networks namely Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Google+.
• YouTube Trends, Map & Blog Dashboard
• Popurls provides an overview of what is happening on the Internet and social web today.
• Boardreader searches across forums and other sites.
• BuzzFeed  aggregates social trending content.

Social Data Sites

• Data.gov searches government data.

Geosocial/ Location-based Tools

• GeoSocial Footprint  - analyze your geosocial footprint for risk
• Echosec - Location based meta-data in digital publications allows you to search physical regions for messages, images, videos and more.

Image Search

• TinEye - Reverse image search using image or image url
• Google Images - Use the image or image url to search for images across networks