Virtual Whiteboard

http://www.dabbleboard.com/

Dabbleboard is a winner. Easy sign up, easy to use and share.   You can insert images and mark them up, draw freehand, have a chat while drawing….

Marketing Resources

From DH Communications:

http://www.dhcommunications.com/free/directory.htm

marketing Sherpa is one of the resources off the link — great resource for data on viral marketing, use of social networking to market, etc.

Information Visualization – Many Eyes

Northstar Nerd’s tutorial on how to use IBMs Many Eyes, a social networking application that combines information visualization with “wisdom of crowds” style insight.

http://econtent.typepad.com/econtent/2008/06/data-visualization-tutorial-ibm-many-eyes.html

Tool for generating heat maps

http://bioinformatics.ubc.ca/matrix2png/  these are 2D maps and are generated in png format — a graphic format that is recognized by most browsers. 

Heat Maps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_map

Notes from the Dow Jones’ Webinar “The Impact of Web 2.0″ delivered by Cynthia Cheng Correia

Outtakes from Dow Jones’ Webinar  The Impact of Web 2.0 on Competitive Intelligence delivered by Cynthia Cheng Correia 

Collaborative whiteboard:  http://www.thinkature.com

Crunchboard’s Widget: http://www.crunchboard.com

Google Finance: http://finance.google.com

Wikileaks: http://www.wikileaks.org

Forbes.com widgets  http://www.forbes.com/widgets/

Wikia: http://www.wikia.com - technology news

RivalMap: http://www.rivalmap.com

Google Friend Connect/ Open Social- grow your website by engaging your friends: http://www.google.com/friendconnect/

Dow Jones Factiva – Infopro Alliance has articles, lists upcoming webinars, resources: http://www.factiva.com/infopro/

Terms

• intelligence from blogs, microblogs (twitter), social networking software (linked in) = human source intelligence, HSC humor source collection, primary research
• literary searching = public source collection or secondary research

Recommended (from Cynthia Cheng Correia) CI blogs:
•Competitive Intelligence Marketplace  – practicalinc.typepad.com/cim
•Intelligence for Business – primaryintelligence.blogspot.com
•Knowledge is Power – knowledgeispower.typepad.com/knowledge_is_power
•Steinnon on Security – www.networkworld.com/community/stiennon
(past blog: Threat Chaos blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos)
•Technorati…use it to find blogs on topics that you are following http://technorati.com

Web 2.0 Directories
•Go2Web20 http://www.go2web20.net
•Listio http://www.listio.com
•Web 2.0 Directory http://web2.econsultant.com
•Web2List http://web2list.com/?menu=all

CI outquotes – Sawka

“decision-relevant competitive intelligence”

intelligence analytic methodologies: Porter’s Five-Forces, SWOT, event and timeline, scenario analysis,

“Competitive intelligence is not an information profession; it’s a decision strategy profession. It’s time we move away from our heavy reliance on data and recognized that only through data collection
AND analysis can we answer the questions senior executives are asking. “
– From the article Information vs. Intelligence,  written by Kenneth Sawka (a Principal at Outward Insights) published in the SLA CI Diviision newsletter Intelligence Insights. http://units.sla.org/division/dci/Insights/IIMay05.pdf: page 4

Key Intelligence Topics

Key Intelligence Topics were mentioned in Cynthia Cheng Correia’s SLA (Special Libraries Association) 2008 Annual Conference presentation. After the presentation, Ms. Cheng Correia forwarded links to these articles by Jan Herring, which appeared, in SLA’s CI Division newsletter,  Intelligence Insights:

“Understanding the Intelligence Process” http://units.sla.org/division/dci/Insights/IIMay05.pdf: page 1

“Developing Effective KIT Action Plans” http://units.sla.org/division/dci/Insights/IIOct05.pdf: page 1

General Resources

Databases and E-resources at the Library of Congress
Search by database title or by subject. Find Business and other resources.

National Library of Medicine
PubMed, others.

Dialog $ $ $ PAY PER USE
Searches the Deep Web in these categories: Business, Intellectual Property, Science and Technology, News & Trade Journals, Market Research. Can subscribe or pay per incident.

(Non-database) software:

Data Harmony $ $ $
Taxonomy software, create thesauri, indexes.

Subscription (not free) Resources

Passport GMID – International marketing data

‘Pay Per Use’ Business Resources

Dialog
Searches the Deep Web in these categories: Business, Intellectual Property, Science and Technology, News & Trade Journals, Market Research. Can subscribe or pay per incident.

Factiva iworks
from Dow Jones – Business data