HELP

1. Using Trendpedia
2. What are Trends?
3. What are the trends graphics showing?
4. What are Trendlines?
5. What is the Pie chart?
6. What are Results?
7. How you can click on the chart and what it will give you?
8. Can I click the charts?
9. What is a Featured trend?
10. What are the popular trends?
11. Can I take a picture of the Trendpedia screen?
12. What are blogs?
13. What are blog rings?
14. How to do a simple Trend search?
15. How to do an advanced search?

Using Trendpedia

Enter a topic, or several topics, click “search trend” and wait while Trendpedia speedily searches blogs in several languages.

Trendpedia’s line chart shows the popularity of the topics over time. Click on the chart to visit blog entries from a particular day.

With each click, several choices appear in the tabs at the bottom of the screen. Click on the tabs to pick your topic. Click on the article titles within the tabs to visit the articles themselves and read what others online have to say about your trends.

Trends are the most popular topics found in Blogs.

Choose the keywords that describe your trend. Enter the keywords in the search boxes. Click “search trend”. In moments, Trendpedia’s trendlines show how popular your trends are (and have been).

With Trendpedia, you can search and track trends today, yesterday, last week, or over the last three months.

The trends graphics display two charts, your trendlines and a total trends pie chart.

Trendlines show the popularity of your trends over time. All the posts per day in the Trendpedia database discussing your trends can be found through clicking the trendline chart. Click the line of the trend above the date and investigate the articles posted that day about your trend.

Beside the trendlines, a pie chart tells you today’s total Buzz break-down. You can see how popular one topic is in direct comparison with another in the articles posted today.

Trendlines are the number of articles — blog posts — posted per day that talk about the trends for which you search. Trendpedia maps number of articles per day mentioning your topic. Click a point on a trendline and watch the articles available in the tabs below the chart change to articles posted on the day that you click.

The pie chart demonstrates the total buzz around your trends today. You can look at the pie chart to see how your topics appear in direct comparison to each other.

Results are the total number of blog articles posted per day than include your topics. Results are shown over time — the trendline chart shows the number of online articles posted per day that include your topics.

Click on the Trendline of your choice. Click above the date of the articles that you want to see, and watch the articles displayed in “Recent articles” change to articles posted from the day that you select. Click on the article of your choice to visit the site and read the full article.

Trendpedia randomly selects several of the top articles related to your topic available on the day that you’ve selected. Click on “More” at the bottom of the articles listed if you want to explore additional articles.

Yes! Click the trendline above the day of the articles that you want to see. Watch the “Recent articles” in the tabs below change to articles posted the day that you select. Click on the title of any post to access the full article. Click on “More” below the listed articles show to see more articles posted that day.

Featured Trends are trends that the Trendpedia Editor wants to share with Trendpedia users. These can be popular trends repeated by several users or unusual trends with interesting results. For archives of trends that users love, see the Trendpedia blog.

Popular trends include the top trends users search and share through Trendpedia.

You can take a print screen of the chart and save it on your Desktop. Or use one of the icons at the bottom of the search boxes to post a trend to your webage, or email the trend to a friend or colleague.

Blogs are websites where people (“bloggers”) post information that they want to share. Blogs can be personal, where individuals keep online diaries or journals. Blogs can be professional, where journalists or organisations regularly post information about their fields or industries. Each “post”, or entry into a blog, includes a date of posting.

Trendpedia searches blogs and organises posts according to your chosen trends (keywords) and date. You can access the blogs through the posts listed under the tabs below the trendline chart.

“Blog rings” are made up of blogs created by bloggers with common interests or experiences. Bloggers in blog rings link to each other through blogrolls. Many “comment” below the different blog articles of members in their blog rings.

Bloggers post a topic and use Trendpedia to search for others that post about the same topics. They visit the articles and comment on the blogs. Find friends interested in what you love to blog about — expand your ring!

SIMPLE SEARCH

To do a simple search in Trendpedia, enter the topics (and any related keywords) that interest you in the box. Separate the different keywords with commas.

Click “search trends” and wait. In seconds, Trendpedia produces a trendline chart showing how popular your topics are — and how popular they have been over the past three months.

Beside the trendlines, you can find a pie chart telling you today’s total Buzz break-down.

ADVANCED SEARCH

Trendpedia’s advanced searches are for more targeted topics. Using “online search queries”, users can narrow their results through narrowing the topics.

“Query” boxes allow users to use their search query knowledge to target their findings. For example, “Beatles” may be the label, but “Beatles AND music” may be the Query — to make sure that your search finds articles passionate about the band rather than the insects. “Label” is “what’s on the chart”. “Label” boxes include the topics as they will appear on the charts — the names that users give to their different queries.

A “Query” is “what you search for”.

Use the “Any Language” drop down box in order to isolate the language of the blog articles that you want to see.