Wikipedia maintains a long list of social networking websites. The links are to other Wikipedia articles about the listed sites so that you can get a feel for what the sites might offer.
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I don’t know how I so skillfully miss a good blog when I’m searching. Ian Smith’s blog, aptly named Ian’s iBlog, has been going since December 2006. Ian is a graduate of Concordia University in Montreal.
His article entitled FI: Facebook Intelligence attracted my attention as it provides a good explanation of the value of searching this social network site.
The following press release came across my desk yesterday. It illustrates how CI has become the domain of large corporations, maybe it always was. It is the large businesses that can afford the specialised personnel to fill the roll of CI professional.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ — Competitive Intelligence
groups have a tough job…Specific best practices are revealed in Managing the Competition:
Turning Competitive Intelligence into Strategy, a compelling benchmarking
study conducted by Best Practices, LLC…Download a complimentary study excerpt at http://www3.best-in-class.com/rr904.htm.
The study presents provocative sharing compiled from surveys and in-depth interviews with 29 top CI executives at such world-class companies as AstraZeneca, IBM, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Kodak, Eli Lilly and Abbott Labs…A brief sampling of harvested insights and best practices include:
One benchmarked executive explains that CI analysts at his organization must develop executive recommendations beyond pure data analysis. This kind of accountability led to more empowerment of the CI team as company members are more likely to use competitive information if it is readily available.
This is something that makes me think, “why didn’t I think of that?”. I found it on the Sources And Methods blog.
Newsroom101.com. This site has a ton of easy to do exercises to improve your grammar, spelling and punctuation. Designed for journalists (with the AP style in mind) the site is almost just as useful to intelligence analysts who have to learn to write in the concise style of a journalist. I also like the way the exercises are put together. If you get the right answer, the site doesn’t bore you with the details. If you get the wrong answer, however, the site lets you know what you did wrong and why immediately.
The Deccan Herald, one of my favorite sources of news of India, has this wonderful anecdote about bugging:
The great British statesman Winston Churchill had one standard procedure, whenever he was housed in magnificent Russian palaces during his state visits. The first thing the British Prime Minister used to do was to go through all the rooms of his suite shouting “You b@#*%#ds, I know this room is bugged and will not be fooled by you.”