Business Information Alert articles from October 2003

Business Information Alert archives from October 2003

Compiling international company lists.(methodology for a business research project)
October 1, 2003... Being able to prepare and research an accurate list of companies located anywhere in the world and categorized in many different ways is a real analytical skill required by many business information professionals. Such compilations also require...

From the editor.(Editorial)
October 1, 2003... List mania is rampant. We make to-do lists, shopping lists, and gift lists. We find lists in magazines and newspapers--bestseller lists, top-travel destinations, and reasons to exercise. On TV, David Letterman's nightly "Top Ten" list is a...

Internet intelligence--a moveable feast.(News & Trends)(features of e-commerce online resources: CyberAtlas, E-business Forum and Global Reach)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Is the Internet industry unraveling? You might think so if you looked at my e-commerce research guide of last year. There are so many cross-outs; it looks like a heavily censored document. The premium information technology (IT) market research...

Beyond the internet--IT.(News & Trends)(overview of internet resources on IT industry)
October 1, 2003... Of course, the most efficient way to keep on top of the IT industry is to subscribe to a premium resource such as eMarketer. The site's "eStats" updates thousands of records and data points on the Internet and e-business daily, while "eMarketer...

The big IT picture.(News & Trends)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... The year 2002 was the worst in history for IT purchases, according to a May 2003 Gartner Inc., report. However, tech stocks are surging again. The Nasdaq Composite Index, where most of the major IT players live, stands near an 18-month high...

Online source for business books.(News & Trends)
October 1, 2003... By the way, my current favorite business book site is Blackwell's. Unlike Amazons annotations, the ISBN is right up front. Blackwell's is the 125-year-old book lovers' mecca that seems to stretch for miles underneath Oxford University in...

Recent upgrades.(News & Trends)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Once an annual publication, the free CIA World Fact Book is now updated periodically and has added a rankings feature. Each of the 200+ countries is scored in six big categories (Geographic Area, Military, Population, Communications,...

A final note.(News & Trends)
October 1, 2003... The New York Times book review (9/1/03) of Al Franken's Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) offers a poignant reminder of the value of information professionals' skills. The article mentions "the all-important way that slipshod computer...

Electricity economics: regulation and deregulation.(Economics)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Geoffrey Rothwell & Tomas Gomez. 2003. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hardcover. 304p. ISBN: 0-471-23437-0. $69.95 This book, sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is really an economics tutorial. It could well be...

Information architecture: blueprints for the web.(Information Technology)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Christina Wodtke. 2002. New Riders Publishing. Softcover. 348p. ISBN: 0-7357-1250-6. $29.99. Information Architecture is another in a series of books on web site planning and design from New Riders Publishing. This publisher has...

China and its regions: economic growth and reform in chinese provinces.(International Business)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Mary-Francoise Renard, ed. 2002. Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. Hardcover. 338p. ISBN: 1-84064-581-4. $120. China and its Regions is not merely a study related to Chinese economics. More importantly, the work is a valuable result from an...

The bottom line: determining and communicating the value of the special library.(Library Management)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Joseph R. Mathews. 2002. Libraries Unlimited. Softcover. 175p. ISBN: 1-59158-004-8. $42. As the economy continues its struggle to recover, The Bottom Line is an especially timely book. Increasingly, information professionals in special...