Blog Talk Monitor
Wow… Another great piece of software from social marketing expert, Jack Humphrey. And it’s free!
Get it here: http://budurl.com/vxtu
It gives you all kinds of cool information. You can use it just to find out what others are doing in your niche, or what I want to use it for is creating content. I mean, writing in a blog every day really isn’t that hard when you check out what’s going on around you.
You don’t have to come up with stuff on your own every single day, you know. If you’re one of my loyal and totally cool readers, you’ll know that I often write about other people, things going on around the Web or like this post, some useful tool that I’ve found and want to share with you.
Blog Talk Monitor runs your searches as often as you want it to from every five minutes to every 24 hours. You select the topic, plug in some keywords and this little program does the rest. It’s sweet!
The only issue for me was that my Microsoft .NET framework wasn’t up to date, so I had to go and download .NET 3.5 and then the .NET 3.5 SP1. Gotta have those service packs. So, that took a bit of time, but not a big deal really. You can go to: http://budurl.com/gb2p to download .NET 3.5 and if you scroll down the page, the service pack, too.
So, now I have my services up to date and Blog Talk Monitor!
Oh, and you can monitor the same terms in Google Blogs, Google News, Technorati or RSS. Sweet!
What can I say, but again, “Thanks, Jack!” (Now you know why I promote his stuff. Always, always useful.)
Laurie Tossy
November 13th, 2008 at 10:51 pm #
I agree, this is a cool freebie! I got great info for my blog — so fast!
Paul Le3adbetter
November 14th, 2008 at 8:37 pm #
Hi Pat,
I have also downloaded the blog monitor, its a fantastic bit of software. Cannot believe it is free. It will certainly spark a lot of creativity in me.
take it easy!