Articles on 'Find'

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• Selected Sources for Energy Research
  September 2010
  In my work as a contributing editor for DocuTicker , I research publicly available reports on a number of global topics. Here are some of my favourite...
  
  
• Clustering Search Strategies: An Overview and Update
  September 2010
  A typical web search with a conventional search engine (Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Bing) can quickly display enough information to satisfy the...
  
  
• Finding Expertise Inside the Organisation
  August 2010
  What is expertise? When we think of experts, many of us think as Malcolm Gladwell does in his 2008 book "Outliers" that expertise is...
  
  
• Wolfram|Alpha: Simple and Not So Simple Computations in One Click
  July 2010
  I know from personal experience that many use general purpose search engines for every kind of search, giving little regard to the search engine's...
  
  
• Real-Time Monitoring: Tools and Trends to Watch
  June 2010
  Real-time tools have sparked a new sociological phenomenon where nearly everyone is routinely reporting information. From audience members...
  
  
• Government Policies in Support of Electrification of Automobiles
  May 2010
  Research into government policy in support of electric vehicles will quickly lead the researcher into the much broader areas of climate...
  
  
• Enterprise Content Management: Another Role for Info Pros
  April 2010
  Have you ever tried to find a document or image that you knew existed in your organisation, but you just couldn't get your hands on it? As an information...
  
  
• Social Networks in Research: Friend or Foe?
  March 2010
  In 2008 I gave a Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) webinar on the evolving field of social media. There was so much...
  
  
• Show Me the Money: Venture Capital Resources
  February 2010
  Venture capital (VC) resources are used by a variety of businesses and researchers, but the primary users fall within three categories:...
  
  
• Evolution In Source Evaluation: Using Social Media Data
  January 2010
  and Samara Omundson Information source evaluation has always been part of the research and information professional's job. As information formats and...
  
  
• Beep, Beep: Introduction to Automotive Industry Research
  December 2009
  In 2008, the worldwide automotive industry produced over 70 million vehicles, employed over nine million people, and represented ‘over...
  
  
• Yahoo! Pipes: Relevant information on tap
  November 2009
  Yahoo! Pipes application ( http://pipes.yahoo.com ) is a powerful tool for mashing up a variety of information. I've found it particularly useful for...
  
  
• When Smaller is Better: U.S. Merger and Acquisition Databases for Business Appraisers
  October 2009
  Business appraisers in the U.S. often use the Transaction Method when valuing a privately-held company. This method, which is widely used...
  
  
• DIY Detection: Softly, Softly, Catchee Monkee (Part Two of Two)
  September 2009
  View Part 1 of this article » In Part one of this article three fundamental information-gathering...
  
  
• DIY Detection: Softly, Softly, Catchee Monkee (Part One of Two)
  August 2009
  'For hundreds of years, one of the central planks of a decent education was being taught how to find information. In barely a half-dozen...
  
  
• Cooperative Intelligence: Help Yourself by Helping Others
  July 2009
  In my 25 years as a marketing professional focusing on competitive intelligence, I have noticed that the focus for information collection is increasingly...
  
  
• Disability Statistics: Challenges and Sources
  June 2009
  In 2004 there were 6.5 billion people in the world; 18.6 million (2.9%) were severely disabled, and another 79.7 million had moderate disabilities (see...
  
  
• Finding Videos, Audio and Images on the Web: Search Tools
  May 2009
  Remember the 'old days' when search engines couldn't find the content of a PDF? Those days are long gone, and in their place we have an...
  
  
• Finding competitive business information in six steps
  April 2009
  Finding Competitive Business Information in Six Steps Written by Heather Carine. People in business are always looking for information -...
  
  
• Filling in the Gaps: Company Intelligence Beyond the Corporate Website
  March 2009
  Last autumn, having completed an enquiry about a company, its competitors and key market areas, I received an appreciative email back from my...
  
  
• Engineering Results: Some Alternative Search Engines
  February 2009
  All information professionals will be familiar with the ‘Big Four' of search - Google, Yahoo, Live and Ask - even if they may habitually use only one or...
  
  
• People Information: Finding Accurate, Authoritative and Well Organised Data
  January 2009
  It has been said that ‘You can find everything on the Internet'. But what happens when you are trying to locate information about...
  
  
• Key to Research Success: Asking the Right Questions
  November 2008
  The ‘F' in FUMSI stands for ‘Find'. But how can you find if you don't know what you are looking for? As with anything else in life, the more clearly you...
  
  
• If They Only Knew: Finding Competitive Intelligence from the Websites of Your Competitors and Their Friends
  October 2008
  Ten years ago, searching the Web for competitive intelligence was a hit-or-miss affair. Although by then most quoted companies had websites, private...
  
  
• Asia Pacific Region: Consumer Markets and Industries - Part II
  October 2008
  Click here for Part I of this article NB: This article is adapted from the FUMSI report, Asia-Pacific Research Resources , part of the Regional...
  
  
• Asia Pacific Region: Consumer Markets and Industries - Part I
  October 2008
  Click here for Part II of this article NB: This article is adapted from the FUMSI report, Asia-Pacific Research Resources , part of the Regional...
  
  
• Social Networking: A Research Tool
  September 2008
  If you thought social networking was for the younger set à la MySpace , or for friends connecting for fun and pleasure on  Facebook  with its...
  
  
• Research: A Diligent Approach
  August 2008
  When people ask me what I do, I sometimes say "I save people from embarrassment". I can't stop them from showing themselves up in the local karaoke bar,...
  
  
• Search Beyond the Web: When to Pick Up the Phone
  July 2008
  While ‘Find' usually focuses on online searching strategies and sources, this article concentrates on a resource to use when, to quote FreePint's Robin...
  
  
• Finding Competitive Information for Growing Companies
  June 2008
  Entrepreneurs may be defined as individuals who perceive an opportunity and create and grow an organisation to pursue it. According to the Global...
  
  
• US Government Information On the Internet
  April 2008
  As any student of American government knows, the United States Constitution creates a system where power is distributed among three independent branches...
  
  
• Finding People Information: Free Sources and Web 2.0
  April 2008
  If you're like me, your email inbox is full of offers for free webinars. Recently one caught my attention. It was called 'Finding People Information: Free...
  
  
• UK Government Information on the Internet
  April 2008
  The early days of the Internet saw great optimism as to the potential for the freeing up of information and consequent greater accountability of...
  
  
• Life Beyond Google: Some of the Best of the Rest
  March 2008
  Google is still the behemoth of search engines, but there is a plethora of alternative search engines that provide features not readily available on...
  
  
• Evaluating Researchers: Developing a Skills Matrix
  February 2008
  We probably all have an idea of what a good researcher is capable of doing and what kind of skills that person possesses. We also know when we...
  
  
• Beyond the Internet: Successful Research Strategies
  February 2008
  Beyond the Internet: Successful Research Strategies by Barbara A. Chernow is to the study of the research process what The Elements of Style by...
  
  
• Prospect Research: Finally Coming of Age
  January 2008
  Research has been my passion and my job for many years. It's the daily challenges and uncertainty that keep me coming back time and time again. I've been...
  
  
• 1997-2007: A Decade of Find, Use, Manage, Share
  December 2007
  On the evolutionary scale, 10 years isn't even a blip, not a blink, not a breath in. It's hardly anything at all. But on the information scale, especially...
  
  
• Global Collaborative Search: Watch This Space
  November 2007
  The Web's current evolutionary phase, Web 2.0, highlights user- generated content. These days, anyone can publish anything, and everyone shares...
  
  
• Enterprise Search: Rethinking it in a Web 2.0 World
  November 2007
  In the Land of Web 1.0, we would search by looking for a small box in the top corner of a website. The user would be expected to know a magical keyword...
  
  
• Doing Research in a Foreign Language Market: Tips and Techniques
  September 2007
  Conducting research in another language can be tricky, especially if you speak only your mother tongue. Being a native Danish speaker with knowledge of...
  
  
• FUMSI Report: European Research Resources
  September 2007
  [Editor's note: A new report from the FUMSI Regional Research Series aims to sketch some of the background to the EU's development, point out the...
  
  
• Search Trails: Back to the Future
  August 2007
  Humans are great at discovering new things, but not always so good at remembering how we found them. Since the first caveman discovered fire, the...
  
  
• Stay Ahead of the Pack: Specialists from Small Firms Work with Restricted Resources
  August 2006
  I have spent my career in large organisations, undertaking research for specialists. Being well informed is vital for specialists, and I have played a key...
  
  
• Looking East: Chinese Research Sources
  July 2007
  Notwithstanding the hype, the endless newspaper articles, the sometimes breathless editorials, China is an economic phenomenon. For a large economy to grow...
  
  
• Plastic Cash: A History of Money and the Credit Card in America
  May 2007
  Electronic media encompasses the relatively new areas of credit cards, smart cards and other forms of stored value or credit that are now becoming...
  
  
• Moving Up: Vertical Search Proliferates
  March 2007
  Vertical Search is one of the 'hot' areas of the last couple of years. Not that it has dominated Google's overall most popular queries. Britney and Paris...
  
  
• Finding Facts: The European Union after 50 Years
  March 2007
  Introduction The European Union (EU) marks its 50th anniversary in March 2007 < http://europa.eu/50/index_en.htm >. In this time it has...
  
  
• Holiday Express: Taking the Mobile Web on Holiday
  January 2007
  Holiday travelling is stressful enough with the shopping, visiting relatives and finding someone to water your plants while you're away. The added hassle...
  
  
• Google Answers is Dead! Long Live Google Answers!
  January 2007
  Google Answers is officially gone. So (my non-disclosure agreement notwithstanding) this seems a good opportunity to reflect on a few questions, such as:...
  
  
• Election Cycles Primer: How and When People Come to Office
  November 2006
  Ink-smudged fingers and hanging chads may be local icons of election time, but their outcomes can reverberate around the world. November marks mid-term...
  
  
• Job Trends in the Information Market: A Q&A with Hazel Hall
  July 2006
  Anyone working in the information industry knows jobs are constantly changing to keep up with the technology. TFPL, Ltd., which provides recruitment,...
  
  
• The Rise of DocuTicker: So Many Reports, So Little Time
  June 2006
  Government agencies, think tanks, commercial and non-profit organisations, and trade associations provide an incredibly rich and diverse collection of free...
  
  
• Technology and Industrial Innovation Resources on the Web
  June 2006
  "Innovation -- the commercial exploitation of new or novel ideas -- occupies the ground somewhere between the scientific community and the business world....
  
  
• How the financial world goes round - a primer on financial information resources
  May 2006
  "Information about money has become almost as important as money itself" Walter Wriston, 1985. For those that are new to it, the world of financial...
  
  
• European Unions: what you need to know about international mergers and acquisitions
  April 2006
  You may have noticed, over the past few months, press and market commentary regarding the increased number (and value) of domestic and cross-border...
  
  
• Save yourself! Free resources for organising, maintaining and sharing the fruits of your web searches
  March 2006
  As any researcher knows, web searching can sometimes produce a disorganised mass of results. Saving results in a format you can find and use later is more...
  
  
• Characterising the dragon - undertaking research in China
  March 2006
  Harold Geneen, the founder of MCI Inc., once said, "In the business world, everyone is paid in two ways: cash and experience. Take the experience first;...
  
  
• MP3s, Podcasts and all that
  March 2006
  What exactly is a podcast? Is an MP3 file some form of audio file? Do I have to have an iPod to access these things? And for heaven's sake, what is this MP4...
  
  

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