Google Alerts--Provides Situational Awareness

If you are looking to track a particular topic and know what is being written across the world on that subject you should use Google Alerts

As explained by Mark Lewack:

Once a day, I receive a collection (from Google Alerts) of News articles, web page updates, and blog updates relating to numerous topics, one of which is "emergency management". This is a good situational, topic awareness tool, as it keeps me up to date on developments in the Emergency Management and related topics.

Google Alerts is a very nice tool to have, as I can pick and choose relevant materials to pass on to my colleagues, you included (unless of course you already receive these materials).

Another nice feature is you can change the language (e.g. changing the last two letters of the web address to es (vice en for English) will change the text to Spanish (other languages include it for Italian, fr for French, he for Hebrew, ar for Arabic, and ru for Russian), the frequency of alerts, and which type of content to receive (e.g. news articles, blog updates, web page updates, etc.)

Note: you must respond to verification e-mail (click on the provided "in-text" link) once you've made your selections and submitted your request.