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

August 14, 2008

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 Associations

July 15, 2008

Special Library Association (SLA) Competitive Intelligence (CI) Division – Among other things the division has a mentoring program, and an informative newsletter: CI DIvision Newsletter

Fuld, Gilad Herring Academy of Competitive Intelligence

Association of Independent Information Professionals – Solo researchers/librarians/CI professionals. Very bright, interesting group of people.