further to yesterday's post

Yesterday I mentioned yet another networking tool, this one specifically for academia. Today I discovered a feature I particularly like about it. If anyone does a Google search that finds my page there, the web page sends me an e-mail to let me know, and there is a summary "key words" page letting me know what searches people are doing that lead to my page. I rather like this, it is interesting to see how often and why people are finding my page (and it turns out to be more often than I would have expected!). It is possible to change the settings, of course, so if you don't want these notifications you don't get them, or, you can have it tell you only when a new keyword is used to find you...

a different sort of tree

I received an e-mail on my uni account today telling me of yet another potential distraction, as if there weren't already enough things on-line to keep us from working. Another networking toy, this one about academia set up as a "tree" (an appropriate week to hear about it, given all the trees we've been discussing on the geo-blog sphere recently) linking all universities/researchers. While there are thousands of people on it already (including some rather famous ones), there doesn't seem to be all that many geologists yet, so I thought I'd mention it here and see if any of the rest of the geobloggers want to play.