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Getting an edge over your competitors http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/11.html Regular monitoring gives the highest returns, and is required to get an edge over your competitors. For beginners, the best strategy is often to start with the general, and gradually dig deeper into industry specific details. Let us review some good hunting grounds for information, and explain how to use them. Clipping the news Too much to read and not enough time to read it? If you feel this way, you are not alone. Keeping up with critical developments that affect you and your business can be a daunting task. "Clipping" cannot do the reading for you, but it sure can help you gather and manage business information more efficiently. Several online services offer 'clipping services'. They select the news that you want 24 hours a day from a continuous stream of stories from newspapers, magazines, news agencies and newsletters. You select stories by giving the online service a set of search terms. The hits are sent to your electronic mailbox, for you to read at will. Many make the news available as soon as they have been received by satellite. The delay before used to protect the interests of print media is disappearing. Online services usually deliver news sooner than print media, radio and television. 'Clipping' gives an enormous advantage. Few important details escape your attention, even if you are unable to go online daily. The stories will stay in your mailbox until you have read them. 'Clipping' on the Internet Reference.COM is a personalized conference postings delivery service that covers over 150,000 newsgroups (Usenet), mailing lists, and Web forums. You subscribe by submitting keywords that describe your interests. Postings that match your profiles (based on content, no matter which conferences they fall into) will be sent you periodically via email. The search profiles can include operators like AND, OR, AND NOT, WHERE ORGANIZATION CONTAINS, WHERE SUBJECT CONTAINS, and WHERE date . You can adjust the frequency of delivery, the volume of articles, and the length of subscription. One interesting application of the netnews service is to find which newsgroups may or may not be covering a subject area. When you have found the names, subscribe to those for direct inquiries, postings of queries, to converse with experts, etc. Institute for Scientific Information offers an alerting service built on a Current Contents database of over 7,000 journals, 2,000 books, and proceedings from the world's core research literature. ISI's Coverage includes publications in the fields of life sciences; agriculture, biology and environmental sciences; physical, chemical and earth sciences; clinical medicine; engineering, computing and technology; social and behavioral sciences; and the arts and humanities. ZD Net offers a free, personalized news service tailored to include only your favorite topics. PointCast provides free personalized news from Reuters. S&P Comstock's stock ticker, SportsTicker, AccuWeather, and Variety. Select to receive news on any of 35 industry topics. For a modest fee, Individual.com (see Chapter 9) will send you a customized daily news report right to your electronic doorstep. The report will contain the day's headlines and news briefs relevant to your needs. To get the full text of a selected article, connect to the shown Web page and read it. Clarinet allows the use of software filters to display only messages that include certain keywords, and can subscribe to subsets of the wire service offerings. Users' newsreaders can do some individualized filtering as well. Knight Ridder's News Alert provides fee based filtered information from AFX 5 of 14 23.11.2009 15:47
Getting an edge over your competitors http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/11.html (European business news), A.M. Best, Business Wire, Comline Business News (Japanese business news), Federal News Service, Futures World News, Global Information Network, Knight Ridder Financial, PR Newswire, Sports Ticker, US Newswire, and other sources. Email and fax delivery available. World News Connection (WNC) is a foreign news alert service from the U.S. Government. For a moderate fee, you get access to time sensitive news gathered from thousands of foreign media sources, including political speeches, television programs and radio broadcasts, and articles from newspapers, periodicals, and books. Contents include unclassified military, political, environmental and sociological, scientific and technical data and reports from around the world. All the material is translated into English. Regional categories covered include: Central Eurasia, East Asia, Near East & South Asia, China, East Europe, West Europe, Latin America, Sub Saharan Africa. Note: U.S. information is not included. Some subscription plans include clipping. Define the type of information in which you are interested. On a daily basis, WNC will review all articles being added to the service, identify those meeting your profile, and email them to your mailbox. CARL (Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, U.S.A.) offers a table of contents alert service. Users with an "UnCover profile" may create a list of journal titles in which they are interested. When the next issue of any of those titles is entered into UnCover, the table of contents will automatically be emailed to them. Ordering an article is as easy as replying to the email message. 'Clipping' on CompuServe CompuServe's Executive News Service (ENS) monitors over 8,000 stories daily from sources like Deutsche Press Agentur (Germany), Kyodo News Service (Japan), ITAR/TASS (Russia), Xinhua News Agency (China), Pacific Rim News Service, The Washington Post, OTC News Alert, Reuters Financial News Wire, Associated Press, UPI, Reuters World Report, IDG PR Service, Inter Press Service (IPS), Middle East News Network, European Community Report, and Dow Jones News Service. One of them, Reuters, has 1,200 journalists in 120 bureaus all over the world. They write company news reports about revenues, profits, dividends, purchases of other companies, changes in management, and other important items for judging a company's results. They write regular opinions about Industry, Governments, Economics, Leading indicators, and Commerce. Reuters also offers full text stories from Financial Times and other leading European newspapers. Its Textline is a database with general and business news from some 2,000 publications in Western and Eastern Europe, North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. It includes Reuters RZQ QHZV VHUYLFHV DQG WUDQVODWHG abstracts of stories from some 17 languages. The database reaches back more than 10 years and is updated at around one million articles per year. The IDG PR Service distributes high tech related news gathered by the staffs of IDG's magazines. The InterPress Service covers Third World countries. The Middle East News Network integrates the contents of 28 information sources covering this region of Asia. The Executive News Service lets you define up to three 'clipping folders'. Supply 'key phrases' that define your interests. These key phrases will be used for searching stories as they are sent. Hits will be 'clipped' and held in a folder for you to review at \RXU FRQYHQLHQFH :KHQ FUHDWLQJ D FOLSSLQJ IROGHU \RX VHW DQ H[SLUDWLRQ GDWH DQG specify how many days a clipped story is to be held. To browse the contents of a folder, select it from the menu. Stories can be listed by headlines or leads. Select those you want to read, forward to others as email, or copy to another folder. Delete those that you do not need. Defining key phrases is simple. The important thing is not to get too much, nor too little. General phrases will give many unwanted stories while too narrow phrases will cause you to miss pertinent stories. Example: The phrase APPLE COMPUTERS will only clip stories that have the words APPLE and COMPUTERS next to each other. This may be too narrow. Specifying just APPLE or just COMPUTERS would be too broad. Entering 6 of 14 23.11.2009 15:47
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