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How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic

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Let's say you're a butcher, a baker or a candlestick maker. You want to get up to speed on the social media activity in your market, as fast as you can. Or perhaps you want to sell things to candlestick makers online, or you're a journalist writing a story about blogging butchers, or maybe you've got some kind of weird baking fetish or academic interest.

Is there any way to ramp up your knowledge of these fields, fast, other than the "Google and wander" method? We think there is. Below you'll find step-by-step instructions, with screen shots, for the process we use when we want to get smart about a new field in a hurry.

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Let's say you're a butcher, a baker or a candlestick maker. You want to get up to speed on the social media activity in your market, as fast as you can. Or perhaps you want to sell things to candlestick makers online, or you're a journalist writing a story about blogging butchers, or maybe you've got some kind of weird baking fetish or academic interest.

Is there any way to ramp up your knowledge of these fields, fast, other than the "Google and wander" method? We think there is. Below you'll find step-by-step instructions, with screen shots, for the process we use when we want to get smart about a new field in a hurry.

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How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic

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Let's say you're a butcher, a baker or a candlestick maker. You want to get up to speed on the social media activity in your market, as fast as you can. Or perhaps you want to sell things to candlestick makers online, or you're a journalist writing a story about blogging butchers, or maybe you've got some kind of weird baking fetish or academic interest.

Is there any way to ramp up your knowledge of these fields, fast, other than the "Google and wander" method? We think there is. Below you'll find step-by-step instructions, with screen shots, for the process we use when we want to get smart about a new field in a hurry.

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Is there any way to ramp up your knowledge of these fields, fast, other than the "Google and wander" method?

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on 2009-01-13 by mseifman

Wow... what a great way to get information for research projects. I'm curious though: Would you consider a Blog a valid source of information?

on 2009-02-23 by emsterdamsel

A blog might not be a good "reference" source but it would get you up to speed about hot topics, experts in the field, other useful links, or at least connect you with people thinking about those same things! This is a great article. I wish someone would mentor me through the processes. I've done something like this manually when I did a presentation on blogging; I had to find a bunch of blogs on blogging!

on 2009-06-18 by joecotellese

While blog sources vary widely if it's bookmarked heavily it's more likely a trusted bit of information.

f you doubt that these kinds of steps could help in your line of work - check out this post, where we found the best work-related RSS feeds for Fire Inspectors and Physical Therapists, just to prove that we could.

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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

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on 2009-01-13 by mseifman

The how to is pretty simple, but I myself use Google Reader and diigo.... as you can see :D

People new to social media are often frustrated when they are told to "join the conversation" - because they aren't sure where to find the conversation

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Here's how we find and track the most popular conversations in niche fields. Popularity isn't a perfect judge of quality by any means, but it's a good place to start from.

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Find The Most Popular Blogs in Your Field

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Find The Most Popular Blogs in Your Field

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we found that visiting http://delicious.com/tag/blog+teaching gave us good results.

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Add The Feeds to a Reader

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Add The Feeds to a Reader

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We like to use Netvibes to build collections of feeds because it's easy.

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We repeated the discovery step until we found about 10 good blogs to subscribe to. Then we visited those blogs and looked at their "blogrolls" or sidebar links to their favorite blogs.

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Pull Out Your New Tab's Feeds

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Pull Out Your New Tab's Feeds

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The Top of the OPML File.

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Now to Find the Hottest Posts from Those Top Blogs

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Now that you've got an OPML file of the most popular blogs in your field, you can take that file over to Postrank.com and import it.

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Did you know that as while other apps, like Postrank, think that emailmarshall@gmail.com, emailmarshall+1@gmail.com and emailmarshall+2@gmail.com are all different emails - Gmail considers them the same thing?

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Rank the Blog Posts With Robots!

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