Course agendas and modules

These are example agendas and the modules can be adjusted to suit your organisation. Our scheduled courses usually follow these formats.

Intermediate Online Research

Introduction

Life Beyond Google:
- different search tools for different jobs

Finding people and finding out about people:
- using people finders
- searching for contacts using Usenet and Newsgroups
- other tools to identify and find out more about people
 
Using Search engines more effectively (intermediate):
- devising an online search strategy
- using search engine advanced operators
- combining search operators and Boolean commands
- using other powerful search engine tools
 
Search techniques (intermediate)
- accessing the 'invisible web'
- searching for and using directories instead of search engines  to access the invisible web
 
Using other vital internet tools
- searching for past internet content
- ways to monitor and track internet content
- Getting the most out of RSS News Feeds
- Other important tools

Advanced online research

The advanced course includes all of the above, and:

- investigative techniques for online research including searching for metadata and bypassing normal site navigation
- additional ways to monitor changing content


Please contact us direct for draft agendas for our
 Investigative Desk Research course

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