I’m a big fan of Stumble Upon as a social media tool to discover new bloggers, websites and resources to enrich my online experience.
Today I found three websites and add-ons I want to share of particular interest to communications professionals, especially the members of the account team responsible for monitoring:
- Morning Coffee: If you monitor the same websites daily, this Firefox add-on could be a valuable companion to your RSS reader. You can schedule browser tabs to open as part of a daily routine and even customize it to open different tabs each day. So if one of the websites you’re watching still doesn’t have an RSS feed (like one of mine), make sure to download this extension.
- Indekx: My company has offices all over the world, so a list of foreign media isn’t too hard to come by. But some companies don’t have that luxury. Although not comprehensive, I could see this site being useful for top-tier media snapshot while planning for major product announcements, executive briefings, media tours or RFPs. I’m sure there are better ones out there, but I didn’t stumble upon one (pun intended).
- Journalist Express: I’ve saved the best for last, I think. Designed with journalists in mind, this site lets you pick the topics you’re most interested in and receive all relevant stories from a variety of mainstream media on one customized page.
So what do you think? If you have any feedback on these tools, please leave them in the comments. Or if you disagree, share some alternative options.
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