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SITE: Global Reach
URL: http://blogs.census.gov/globalreach
CATEGORY: Government Information/Statistical Information/Weblog
PURPOSE: Global Reach is the official blog of the U.S. Bureau of the Census’s Foreign Trade Division, which is the official source of U.S. import and export trade statistics.
FEE/FREE: FREE
SOURCE CHECK: Global Reach is a service of the Census Bureau
OUR VIEW:Here you can find new posts as well as comments in an informal conversational manner on releases of foreign trade data, regulations, new electronic export filings, use of the data, and other topics under the purview of the Foreign Trade Division. Consider this site if you need keep up with and utilize statistics on trade and exports around the world.SITE: JobNob
CATEGORY: Company Information
PURPOSE: Jobnob has data on salaries for specific jobs for individual companies and industries in the U.S.
FEE/FREE: FREE
SOURCE CHECK: Jobnob, created by Julie Greenberg and Alan Shusterman, is a very small private firm located in San Francisco.
OUR VIEW: While this site is geared to surfacing salary ranges for professions and individual companies, it could also be used as a source for doing general company research as well . You can search Jobnob’s database by company name, profession, or individual name. One caution is that for some titles/firms, there is only a very small sampling of salary information, so you often have to be careful in extrapolating the data to the entire firm. Consider this site if you want to find salary ranges for a profession or to get a sense of the salary ranges for certain jobs at specific companies.| ADVERTISEMENT This month's featured book from the publisher of The Information Advisor |
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SITE: Business Intelligence Tracer
URL: http://www.biresources.info
CATEGORY: Link Site
PURPOSE: This site is a listing of resources and links of interest and value for anyone who conducts business intelligence research.
FEE/FREE: FREE
SOURCE CHECK: This site was created by Marcus Zillman, executive director of Virtual Private Library. Zillman is a popular speaker and writer on internet research who is known in the information industry for his free but comprehensive compilations of URLs for researchers on various subject areas.
OUR VIEW: While sometimes it can be tough slogging through all the entries in this compilation, it’s worth browsing this list to see if something that you have never heard of before catches your eye. Consider this site if you want to broaden your knowledge of business research sources and sites on the web.| CLICK HERE to view the BestBizWeb archive! |
SITE: Hugin Online
URL: http://www.huginonline.com
CATEGORY: Company Information/Company News
PURPOSE: Hugin Online is a searchable collection of thousands of press and various news and public releases from more than 1,700 companies across Europe.
FEE/FREE: FREE
SOURCE CHECK: Hugin Online, part of the Hugin Group, was started in Oslo, Norway, in 1995 as a pan-European investor relations and press distribution service. It was purchased by Thomson Reuters last fall from NYSE Euronext.
OUR VIEW: While press releases are not hard to find on the web, getting access to a free database of releases from countries outside of the United States is noteworthy indeed. Consider this site if you want to keep up with news and activities from companies across Europe.SITE: Evri
URL: http://www.evri.com
CATEGORY: Search Engine/Directory/News/Social Media
PURPOSE: Evri filters and surfaces news on specific topics by reviewing data streams from traditional wire and online services as well as social media sources such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
FEE/FREE: FREE
SOURCE CHECK: Evri, which is currently in beta, is funded by Paul Allen’s well-known Vulcan Capital. It is based in Seattle and was launched in 2008. OUR VIEW: While there is no shortage of search engines, directories, and news filtering sites, it’s rare to find new ones that add something of value to the existing news aggregation landscape. We were intrigued with Evri’s capabilities to pull relevant streams of information from multiple sources on a specific topic—which of course could also include an industry, company, or other topic of interest to business researchers. There are pre-existing topics, or you can enter a term to create your own set of news sources. Consider this site if you want to find out what real-time, social media, and other breaking information sites are saying about whatever topic you are researching.We are particularly interested in hearing about any sites you'd like to nominate. If we use your submission, your name will be entered in our monthly drawing for a $25 Amazon.com gift certificate. Please send comments to editor Robert Berkman (rberkman@infotoday.com).
 Breaking News & Thoughtful Discussion About Business ResearchRobert Berkman's blog, Intelligent Agent, is available at www.ia-blog.com. Add the feed to your blog roll! |
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