{"id":22160,"date":"2021-01-22T07:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T12:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=22160"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:38","slug":"tech-tip-visualping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/22\/tech-tip-visualping\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tip: Visualping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"464\" height=\"583\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-22-at-8.00.49-AM.png\" alt=\"The Visual-ping dashboard showing a large change in Pfizer - Covid-19 clinical trials. It indicates the sponsor as Pfizer, the status as approved, and the results as published. There are buttons for users to select (view changes and access the site). \" class=\"wp-image-22161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-22-at-8.00.49-AM.png 464w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-22-at-8.00.49-AM-159x200.png 159w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-22-at-8.00.49-AM-111x140.png 111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><figcaption>(Visualping)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This month\u2019s tip is an online tool to help you monitor changes on websites. Maybe you are waiting for an article to be updated, a paper to be published, a news item to refresh, or simply for an out-of-stock product to be available again. <a href=\"https:\/\/visualping.io\">Visualping<\/a> will send you an email or other notification when it detects changes in a user-specified section of a web page. A free plan is available, <a href=\"https:\/\/visualping.io\/pricing\">as well as paid<\/a>, so check it out if it sounds useful to you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you stay up-to-date with online news and articles? Please share your methods with me <a href=\"mailto:mastersc@umich.edu\">via email<\/a> or in the comments, and they may be included in a future Tech Tip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Have a cool app, tool, or tech tip you\u2019d like to share? <\/em><a href=\"mailto:mastersc@umich.edu\"><em>Contact Chase Masters<\/em><\/a><em>. Please note that Tech Tips are personal recommendations and might not be officially endorsed or supported by U-M.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month\u2019s tip is an online tool to help you monitor changes on websites. Maybe you are waiting for an article to be updated, a paper to be published, a news item to refresh, or simply for an out-of-stock product to be available again. Visualping will send you an email or other notification when it detects changes in\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/22\/tech-tip-visualping\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":9792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,111],"class_list":["post-22160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development","tag-management","tag-web"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Chase Masters, University Library","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mastersc\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"This month\u2019s tip is an online tool to help you monitor changes on websites. 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