Monitor Trends with Icerocket Big Buzz Search

A screen shot of Icerocket Big Buzz Search.

Thanks to a tip from Mark Cuban, I’ve discovered another tool to use for monitoring trends and conducting trends research: Icerocket Big Buzz Search.

Here’s how it works:

• Type the idea, term, etc that you want to see current trends on and hit the Search button
• Icerocket provides you with a list of blogs, Tweets from Twitter, FriendFeed items, Videos, and Photos related to your term
• The results are displayed in chronological order, with the “freshness” listed to the left of each item, like this example of a blog posted 56 minutes ago:
  56 m Apropo, A True Life “Rags To Riches Story” · … income. He attributed his success to personal development
• If you really want to power-up your trends research, conduct a search using Icerocket, copy the RSS link in the upper right of the results page, and add it to your RSS reader (read my top 5 tips for conducting trends research using a RSS reader)

Here are some sample Icerocket Big Buzz searches, based on hot topics on Dot Connector:

• Personal Development
• Leadership Training
• Project Management Training

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