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By: A Quirk With Google Alerts « The PR Post

A Quirk With Google Alerts « The PR Post — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:19:52 +0000

[...] you might like to explore is StartPR. For a review of its features, see Kaye Sweetser’s post here. Another monitoring service is Tweetscan, which monitors your search terms on [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:40:10 +0000

You should also check out FaveBot.com — it can track keywords / phrases in podcasts, videos, Flickr photos, blog posts, news articles, (new) books, etc. Plus it can find local events matching your keywords. You can track your output (results) on the site or via RSS feeds.

By: Alex de Carvalho

Alex de Carvalho — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:28:56 +0000

Hi Kaye,

I’ll do my best to get to UGA Connect, thanks.

Regarding sending an invite to Karen Sines, I have no way of reaching her. However, if you would be so kind as to forwards the following link, she’ll be able to use it to sign in. In fact, this link is good for many dozen signups, so please feel free to distribute to your contacts, if you wish. Thank you again for your interest:

http://www.startpr.com/public/signup/7s8d76f8sd7f

By: kaye

kaye — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:57:55 +0000

Alex: yes, we teach social media in two ways at UGA. 1st for a year we had classes on it to get students up to speed. Now we are just continuing our efforts by integrating social media assignments into the normal classes like PR writing, campaigns etc. Last year at UGA we had Connect in the fall then Edelman Digital Bootcamp in the spring. We hope you will come to Connect next month!

By: kaye

kaye — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:55:54 +0000

Karen: I’m out of my free trials … maybe Alex will be so kind as to sent you one??

By: Alex de Carvalho

Alex de Carvalho — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:22:08 +0000

Are you teaching Social Media at UGA? I teach it at the U. of Miami School of Communication. Congrats on UGA Connect, I followed that with interest last year and will try to make it this year.

By: Karen Sines

Karen Sines — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:57:51 +0000

I’d be game for giving it a whirl! Right now we only use Google Alerts. It’d be neat to see what else is going on out there.

Great post!

By: kaye

kaye — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:53:12 +0000

Thanks for stopping by Alex.

All in all, I definitely do like the service but with the addition of some of the features on the wish list it would be a killer app that I couldn’t help but teach to my students at UGA.

I look forward to seeing where you guys grow in this regard!

By: There’s always a first mention! | StartPR Blog

There’s always a first mention! | StartPR Blog — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:51:00 +0000

[...] PR and social media Professor Robert French of Auburn University. In her thoughtful post, “Gathering the conversation,” Kaye shares her likes, her dislikes, and what she calls a “wouldn’t it be [...]

By: Alex de Carvalho

Alex de Carvalho — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:41:48 +0000

Hi Kaye,

Thank you so much for trying out StartPR, and we’re more than pleased that Prof. Robert French had heard of us.

As you can imagine, we have been tracking keywords and using Google Alerts for quite a while now, in addition to searching through Technorati, Twitter Search and other engines for what’s important to us. StartPR grew out of the desire to have a permanent workspace where such searches could be stored and exported. We also wanted a workspace where we could manage the results and delegate activity to our colleagues as required. Finally, we wanted a way to report on our blogger relations activity to our clients (or bosses).

We just launched this week, so we’re working on many of the areas you’ve mentioned, particularly on adding more search engines and social networks. We’ll also be improving other features in time and your feedback is very helpful in helping us prioritize our development. We like your “wouldn’t it be cool if …” list!

Thanks again for giving us a test drive, and please let us know if you have further suggestions!

-Alex
@alexdc
@startpr