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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style="">OPLIN 4Cast #177: Somebody's <span class="SpellE">talkin</span>'<br>
</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">May 12, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span class="GramE"><span
class="grame"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4casting technologies
that could have an impact on
public libraries.</span></i></span></span><span class="grame"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></h1>
<p>Want to know what others are saying online about you or your
library?
Reputation management can be made easier with one or more of these
products:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://tweetbeep.com/"
target="_self" mce_href="http://tweetbeep.com/"><span class="SpellE"><span
class="GramE">tweetbeep</span></span> </a>- It's like Google Alerts
for Twitter! If you love Twitter, you'll love <span class="SpellE">TweetBeep</span>!
Keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, <span
class="GramE">your</span> company, anything, with hourly updates! You
can even keep track of who's <span class="GramE">tweeting</span> your
website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL (like <span
class="SpellE">bit.ly</span> or tinyurl.com). Now, how cool is that?!<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
href="http://www.icerocket.com/" target="_self"
mce_href="http://www.icerocket.com/"><span class="SpellE">Icerocket</span>
</a>- Searches the popular social networking websites including
blogs, Tweets, news, images etc. all from one page.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://www.twazzup.com/"
target="_self" mce_href="http://www.twazzup.com/"><span class="SpellE"><span
class="GramE">twazzup</span></span> </a>- A real-time Twitter
analytics service that displays a lot of data about any given keyword,
as well as a list of the most influential Twitter users that use this
keyword.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://socialmention.com/"
target="_self" mce_href="http://socialmention.com/"><span
class="SpellE">socialmention</span> </a>- Real-time social media
search and analysis<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p>Spotting posts where you are mentioned allows you to thank the
people who
say nice things about you. It will also give you the ability to
respond
to negative comments so you can spin the issue into something positive.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i>Cool fact!</i></b><br>
There are many sites that will <span class="SpellE">hep</span> you
monitor your
online presence. It's just a matter of trying them out and finding the
one easiest for you. Need more suggestions? Try <a
href="http://www.collecta.com" target="_self"
mce_href="http://www.collecta.com"><span class="SpellE">Collecta</span></a>,
<a href="http://www.whostalkin.com" target="_self"
mce_href="http://www.whostalkin.com"><span class="SpellE">whostalkin</span></a>
and <a href="http://pipl.com/">Pipl</a>.
Which one do you use?<o:p></o:p></p>
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Bobbi Galvin
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