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Media
News/Journalism Sites
Jim
Romenesko's Media News: inside-the-newsroom news
Dan
Fost: writes the weekly "Media Bytes" column for San
Francisco Chronicle
Media Insider:
media relations articles and conferences
LexisNexis
Hot Media News: editor and organizational changes
Media
Week: online
news magazine of the media
MediaCentral:
online portal from Primedia media magazines
The
Tyndall Report: coverage analysis of network news
Sam
Whitmore's Media Survey: coverage analysis of technology media
On
The Media: NPR's program analyzing the media
Media
Notes Inc. Extra: a blog maintained by Washington Post's Howard
Kurtz
The
Myers Report:daily media industry news
NewsPaperLinks: gateway
to local newspapers
NewsLinks:
links to top newpaper, magazine and radio sites
NewsDirectory.com:
links to global media
MediaFinder:
subscription-based media database
MediaPost'
Media Daily News: resources for media buyers good for PR, too
MediaBistro:
"connecting all media professionals to new opportunities"
IWantMedia:
"focusing on diversified media news and resources. It provides quick
access to timely media news and relevant industry data, updated throughout
the day"
MediaLand:
maintainted by MediaLife Magazine,
this site contains profiles of top media markets, listing demographics,
daily newspapers, radio and TV stations and cable systems. Not 100% inclusive
(left out Los Angeles Times out of LA profile)
Audit
Bureau of Circulations' Media Professional
CyberJournalist:
tips and talk for the wired journalist
Gladwell.com:
The Tipping Point & New Yorker articles by Malcolm Gladwell
World's
Best News: some of the best news & online magazine sites
Electronic
Media: "the national newspaper of television business."
Delivers weekly coverage of news and commentary on the industry’s programming,
distribution, technology and deals. Its editor-at-large, Diane Mermigas
pens a special subscription newsletter, Mermigas
on Media
Agence
France-Presse: world's oldest established news agency
Breaking
Views: from Dow Jones
MSN/CNBC/Reuters:
Breaking news
NewsFactor
Network: breaking e-business & technology news
News.com:
c/net's news page
Gawker:
The New York Times called it a "a voyeuristic, media-obsessed, gossipy
and occasionally creepy blog that chronicles 'the darker Manhattan-centric
themes: class warfare as recreational sport; pathological status obsession;
and the complete, total, and wholly unapologetic embrace of decadence.'"
The
Black Table: a Web-based newssite that covers the media. Its goal
is "to answer the questions no one's addressing and wander into the vast
landscape that other media outlets avoid."
The
Morning News: a Web-based broadsheet, publishing new articles every
weekday
Flak
Magazine: reviews and criticizes "art and media and the contexts
in which they are produced. Flak believes that mainstream criticism and
opinion journalism all too often take a back seat to advertorial boosterism
and ideological pandering"
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Journalism Magazines and Organizations
Poynter
Institute: everything you need to be a better journalist
Columbia Journalism
Review
American
Journalism Review
American
Journal Review's Reporter Tools
Online
Journalism Review
Editor
& Publisher
American
Press Institute News
Freedom Forum
Columbia School of Journalism:
home of the Pulitzer Prize, online journalism awards, etc.
Neiman Foundation for Journalism:
world's oldest fellowship for journalists
Project for Excellence in Journalism:
an initiative by journalists to raise the standards of American journalism
NAA:
Newspaper Association of America: NAA members account for nearly 90
percent of the daily circulation in the United States
Magazine
Publishers Association: interesting facts, trends about magazines
and advertising/marketing
Dr.
Samir A. Husni aka Mr. Magazine: tracks just about every consumer
magazine published in this country both new and old; Dr. Husni is an author,
magazine industry consultant and Hederman Lecturer and Professor of Journalism
at the University of Mississippi where he heads the magazine service journalism
program
Radio
Advertising Bureau: interesting facts, trends about radio representing
more than 5,000 U.S. stations
ASNE:
American Society of Newspaper Editors: main organization of daily
newspaper editors; fights for First Amendment
The
American Editor: published six times a year by ASNE, the magazine
examines issues of interest to newspaper editors, including management,
editorial content and ethics
APME:
Associated Press Managing Editors: provides information and support
for editors charged with producing daily newspapers
NAB:
National Associaiton of Broadcasters: research page; also check out
the NAB Education Foundation, which
conducts research, education, and other activities related to broadcasting
and its impact
ONO:
Organization of News Ombudmen: maintains contact with news ombudsmen
worldwide, discusses news practices and a wide range of issues connected
with ombudsman work; also check out
ONO's
links to other journalism associations
OPA:
Online Publishers Association: produces groundbreaking research into
online advertising and media consumption
RTNDA:
Radio-Television News Directors Association & Foundation: the
world's largest professional organization devoted exclusively to electronic
journalism; sets standards of news gathering and reporting; the Foundation
promotes excellence in electronic journalism through research, education
and training for news professionals and journalism students
CMPA:
Center for Media and Public Affairs: a nonpartisan research and educational
organization which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment
media and election campaigns
FACSNET:
The Foundation for American Communications: provides the following:
conducts educational programs for journalists and their sources; publishes
primers and guides on a variety of topics important in the news reporting
process; maintains online resources designed to help journalists find
information they need and to understand the subjects upon which they report
Talkers:
a leading trade publication serving the Talk Radio industry, dubbed "The
Bible of Talk Radio"
Statistics
Every Writer Should Know: a site maintained by a producer for LATimes.com
BlackPressUSA.com:
"Your independent source for news for the African American Community"
NNPA:
National Newspaper Publishers Association: represents 200 Black community
newspapers, check out members.
In conjunction with its NNPA
Foundation and Howard University, it sponsors the Black Press Institute,
which runs BlackPressUSA.com
HispanicMedia100:
provides information about Hispanic print and broadcast media
AAN:
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies: represents 121 non-daily
free-circulation papers that are distributed in all of the major North
American metropolitan areas. Each paper has a distinct, local identity
that sets it apart from the mainstream press in its market
NewsPages:
"! News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent
publishers, literary periodicals, alternative periodicals, independent
record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more"
Religions
Newswriters Association: "a new resource to help print and broadcast
journalists when they encounter religion in stories about government,
politics, education, social services, science and other areas of public
life"
Religion
News Service: "the only secular news and photo service devoted
to unbiased coverage of religion and ethics"
NEMA:
New England Electronic Media Association: promotes the region's electronic
media to the advertising community, in New England and throughout the
country; provides informtion and news for its members and for those interested
in New England media; contains a great membership
directory
ZWire!'s
Newspaper Network: is combined network of more than 1,400 co-branded
newspaper web sites, making this the "the largest online network
of newspaper-based community portals in America, providing fresh, relevant,
local news, entertainment, classifieds and community information to millions
of readers every day"
MondoTimes:
"the worldwide media guide"
National
Readership Survey: a survey of UK readership trends
EIM:
European Institute for the Media: "a think tank which analyses
media and communications development in the Europe of the digital age
and advises policy makers, governments and other social groups on the
improvement of freedom of media in all parts of Europe, on the constituents
of the future "civil digital society" and on the prosperity and social
well-being within the evolving new media economy." It provides a
global perspective through cooperation with institutions on other continents
NY
Press Association Members: check out the members of the NYPA
NewsBlues:
news for and about broadcast news, including inside scoops and job listings;
check out its Links Library
to online news sources
London
Press Club
Overseas
Press Club of America
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Research Sites, Sources & Surveys
CEO
Express: business portal for CEOs
CEOTrak:
"comprehensive, hand built directory of important and useful web
based data sources on a wide variety of topics and interests, including
business news, op-eds, journalism resources
AssignmentEditor.com:
the newsroom home page
Power
Reporting: research tools for journalists
Business
Researcher's Portal: business intelligence portal
Small
Business Development Center: Corporate Research
NY
Public Library: Company Information Search
NY
Press Association Links: helpful links for journalists
Corporate
Information: information on public companies
Hoover's:
comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence
Industry
Portals: industry research desk
Researchville:
manage your research here
Moreover:
business intelligence and news headlines
News
is Free: daily news headlines
Researching
Companies Online: business intelligence on prospects, competitors,
vendors, customers, etc.
NABE's
Links: useful and interesting information in the field of business
economics
Pew Internet & American
Life Project: original research that explores the impact of the Internet
on American life
Pew Research Center: studies
attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues, including
public opinion about the news media
Center
for Media Research: research reports and studies about the media
Center
for Research in Electronic Commerce: provides a framework for global
electronic commerce that focuses on network infrastructure, products,
processes, payment systems and policies, using markets and economic analysis
University
of Michigan's Institute for Social Research (ISR): conducts nationwide
surveys whose findings are widely reported in the media, including: The
Panel Study of
Income Dynamics, an annual study of income change among American families;
the Survey of Consumer
Attitudes, a now-monthly survey of attitudes about the economy; Monitoring
the Future, an annual survey of lifestyles and substance abuse among
young people; the Study of American Families, a survey of mothers and
their children; the Health and
Retirement Study, and its companion study, AHEAD, biennially surveys
on aging and health; and the National
Survey of Black Americans
Cambridge
Consumer Credit Index: a monthly telephone poll of 1000+ randomly
selected American consumers tracking attitudes towards consumer credit.
Results are released to coincide with the Federal Reserve Board's G19
release on consumer credit on the fifth business day of every month
American
Customer Satisfaction Index: a uniform and independent measure of
household consumption experience. The ACSI tracks trends in customer satisfaction
and provides valuable benchmarking insights of the consumer economy for
companies, industry trade associations, and government agencies
SuperPages.com:
search for U.S. businesses by address, category, name or phone number
US
Economic Census: statistics by industry and sub-industry including
data by state and employment size, primary product class, sales and cost
breakdowns, capital investments, product statistics, shipments by state,
materials consumed by kind, etc.
FedStats:
offers a full range of official statistical information available to the
public from the Federal Government
NBER:
National Bureau of Economic Research: a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan
research organization that officially declares when the U.S. economy has
entered into a recession and when it has started a recovery; NBER is dedicated
to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works
NBER's
links: links to other sites that may be of interest to economists,
including Federal Reserve Economic Data (aka FRED), Congress' Leading
Economic Indicators, etc.
BEA:
Bureau of Economic Analysis: an agency of the Department of Commerce,
BEA seeks to strengthen the understanding of the U.S. economy and its
competitive position by providing the most accurate and relevant GDP and
economic accounts data in a timely and cost-effective manner
BIS:
Bureau of Labor Statistics: the principal fact-finding agency for
the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics
General
Accounting Office: GAO's primary products are reports, often called
"blue books," and testimony before Congress; the site lists many of its
reports
Census
Dept's Fact Finder: provides population, housing, economic and housing
data
Analysis
Zone: represents a compilation of hyperlinks to relevant sites, articles,
and books dedicated for business analysts and system analysts to help
them learn and manage their daily needs
First
Gov: the official U.S. gateway to all government information
My
Gov: Government Guide: "government services made easy";
provides information to contact politicians
Bartleby.com:
"great books online," including quotations,
references (Columbia
Encyclopedia, World Fact Book, etc.), and English
usage (Strunk & White, Fowler, etc.)
New
York Public Library Online Research: provides brief answers to factual
questions or may direct you to sources, such as Web pages or print material
with information on the topic
Ask
Now: a 24/7 reference service is staffed by local and national reference
librarians
FindLaw.com:
is specifically designed to meet the information management needs of in-house
counsel, offering all the resources found on the Corporate
Counsel Center site
Find
Articles: contains free articles dating back to 1998 from more than
300 magazines and journal
MeansBusiness:
scan some 100 prominent magazines, newspapers, journals, and web sites
in search of the latest and most original business thinking. These ideas
are chosen for their originality, cogency, and relevance to today's rapidly
changing economy
Archive.org:
maintains the "WayBack Machine," a digital library of Internet
sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form, "with the purpose
of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars
to historical collections that exist in digital format"
Business
2.0 Web Guide: "our hand-picked directory of the best business
links on the web"
You
Are Where You Live: people with similar lifestyles tend to live near
one another. This site describes every U.S. neighborhood in terms of 62
distinct lifestyle types, called clusters and also defines 48 lifestyle
types, called segments
RefDesk:
"a free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality,
credible, and current web-based resources"
Googlism.com:
"will find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything!
Search for your name or for a good laugh check out some of the popular
Googlisms"
Google Trends: "compare
the world's interest in your favorite topics"
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PR
Resources
Awards
Lists: PR and
tech awards
Publication
Links: links to print and broadcast Web sites
TvRadioWorld:
directory of radio, TV stations on the Web
COMFM: global directory
of radio, TV stations on the Web
NewsBios: subscription-based
reporter profiles
UseIt:
Jakob Nielsen's Website on web usability
Flash
Hall of PR Shame: includes 10
usability tips for Flash websites. "And of course nothing illustrates
it better than Skip
Intro"
Good
Documents: A Web site that discusses how to create good business documents
in the linked, on-screen environment of Intranets and the Internet
Nielsen Ratings: tv ratings
Nielsen
Net Ratings: Website ratings
ComScore
Networks: Website ratings (formerly Media Matrix)
Top
Circulation Magazines: top magazine ciruclations, compiled by MDS
Measurecast:
provide Internet broadcasters, advertisers and media buyers with next-day
reports on streaming audience size and demographics information
critical to evaluating and placing streaming media advertising
TNS:a
leading market research groups that provides Industry Sector Insight,
and Innovative Research Solutions
PR
Place: includes addresses and hot links to PR organizations and publications,
on-line news services and databases and journalism interest groups
Marketing
with Honors: an extensive searchable, online database of nearly 600
U.S. and international awards competitions available by susbcription
Chase's
Calendar of Events: contains more than 12,000 events of national or
broadly regional interest, or those that seem to have some special entertainment
value; book is updated annually. Sponsors of events are not charged for
inclusion in the calendar
Celebrate
Today!: "features 3,400 special days, weeks, months, and anniversaries
that anyone can use to promote their products, locate meetings themes,
plan a party, uncover story ideas, make lesson plans, or motivate people
Award
Sites: lists various rated award programs (and their winners), starting
with the top rated 5.0 and followed by five other levels
Online-PR:
links and references designed to help "deliver better, faster and
less-expensive online PR"
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PR Vendors
PR
Newswire
Business Wire
EurekAlert!: an online press
service created by the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to provide a forum where research
institutions, universities, government agencies, corporations and the
like can distribute science-related news to reporters and news media
Quadnet:
a news distribution service that focuses on science, technology and medicine
Newstream:
multimedia press kits, a joint venture of Business Wire and Medialink
MediaMap:
subscription media database
Vocus:
subscription media database
prPowerBase:
subscription media database
Bacon's:
media directories & media monitoring
Burelle's:
media monitoring & media directories
Yellow
Book: media directories and directories for Congress, Federal, state
and local leaders
eWatch:
electronic clipping service
Factiva:
online newpaper, wire service & magazine database
DialogPro:
online-based information services
SourceWire:
"the independent resource for hi-tech and business journalists;"
UK-based service for journalists similar to ProfNet and MediaMap Sources;
offers globals lists of market research firms, key idustry associations,
professional institutes, and user groups
MeansBusiness:provides
"the constant flow ideas, strategies and innovation from top business
experts," including corporate portal sites
Dash30:
"a multi-media company that creates and delivers targeted programs
for corporate Intranets and employee portals"
MediaTracks:
provides syndicated radio programming to stations nationwide, including
"Viewpoints" and "Radio Health Journal"
CRN
Radio: a leading radio marketing company, CRN produces innovative,
successful, integrated campaigns for many Fortune 500 companies
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PR Newsletters
O'Dwyer's
PR Newsletter: covers PR, IR and related fields. Weekly
PR Week: offering
the "latest news, in-depth analysis, top columnists, and reviews
of campaigns plus the best selection of job opportunities for PR
professionals across the US and the world." Weekly
Holmes Report:
provides "competitive insight and intelligence to public relations
professionals." Also sponsors the SABRE
(Superior Achievement in Branding and Reputation) awards. Weekly
PR
News: "Resource for expert news and strategies on PR and Marketing."
Also sponsors the Platinum
PR Awards. Weekly
Marketing
Computers: aka Technology Marketing. Weekly
Expert PR: strategies, case studies, editorial moves published by
Media Map. Semi-weekly
Power
Behind the Pen: strategies and case studies published by TJFR. Monthly
The
Scoop: strategies, case studies and editorial moves published by Lexis/Nexis
Ragan's
PR Intelligence Report: monthly. Provides "reliable, useful news
about the public relations industry. Each issue is full of practical,
how-to stories and best practices in crisis communication, measurement,
media relations and much more"
Ragan's
Media Relations Report: also check out Ragan's
PR Resources, which offers an editorial calendar and tips. Monthly
PR
Reporter: "dedicated to the behavioral aspects of public relations,
public affairs and communication strategies. Its quick read format keeps
you up-to-date on the latest theories, research, public opinions, case
studies and successful public relations techniques." Weekly
Media
Industry Newsletter (min): "delivers the latest 'min-sider' news
to top publishers, advertising and media directors. min reports on the
news, deals, trends and personnel moves shaping the consumer magazine
publishing industry. Weekly
min's
b2b: "news, analysis and strategies on business-to-business publishing."
Weekly
Infocom
Group: publishers of BullDog Reporter
The Gauge: Newsletter
of Communications Research
PR
Opinions: weblog of "thoughts and opinions on the Public Relations
profession and industry." Hosted by Tom Murphy
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Venture
Capital
American Venture: online network aimed
at linking entrepreneurs and investors
Asset
Alternatives: publishes newsletters, research reports, and conferences,
information, and networking for the private equity industry, including:
Private Equity Analyst, Venture Capital Analyst: Health Care Edition,
and Venture Capital Analyst: Technology Edition
Daily Deal: provides every constituency
in the deal community with news, events and personalities shaping the
deal community
Growth
Capital: publishes Capital Growth Interactive, a monthly newsletter
on private capital deals and resources and The Annual Guide to Entrepreneurial
Venture Financing
Hoover's
IPO Scorecard: delivers comprehensive IPO market intelligence
IPO
Monitor: provides real-time news, lifecycle events; proprietary reports;
commentary; and custom performance reports
PricewaterhouseCoopers' MoneyTree
Survey: PricewaterhouseCoopers along with Venture Economics and NVCA
measures quarterly investment activity for policy makers, investors, journalists,
academics and entrepreneurs who closely follow the venture capital industry
PricewaterhouseCoopers'
Vision to Reality: Entrepreneur Resource Center provides information
and advice for entrepreneurs on business plans, sourcing capital, etc.
Private Equity
Analyst: news about the private equity market and its investment specialties,
including venture capital, LBOs, mezzanine investing and turnarounds
Private
Equity Week: tracks and researches private equity deals for the entire
venture capital market
Silicon Valley.com:
timely and in-depth technology news site, delivering up-to-the-minute
news and opinion to fast-track technology managers and key industry decision-makers
Venture
Associates: offering a broad range of corporate services to new and
emerging growth companies and entrepreneurs
VC
Buzz: the one-stop Internet VC information network
Venture
Capital Journal: news and analysis of private equity markets
VentureEconomics.com:
global private equity intelligence site, providing daily news and statistics
vFinance.com:
researches and validates virtually every well-known VC firm in America
Venture
Finance: the guide to capital for growing companies
VentureOne:
offers investors, service providers, and entrepreneurs comprehensive,
accurate, and timely information
Venture
Reporter: overviews and metrics of the most dynamic and fastest growing
sectors, including wireless, security, software, life sciences, broadband,
optical, content, and services. It also has an impressive search
engine for VC deals
Venture Wire: "every deal,
every day," including current research
NVCA:
National Venture Capital Association: facilitates networking opportunities;
and provides research data and professional development
NVCA:
Links to other VC organizations, resources
AEEG: American Entrepreneurs for Economic
Growth: uniting innovative, emerging growth businesses across industry
lines to promote positive national government action
The
Churchill Club: Silicon Valley's premier business and technology forum
Foster
Center for Private Equity: Dartmouth's program to advance the understanding
of private equity investing the engine behind the entrepreneurial
activity that drives global innovation and productivity
Foster
Center Resources: useful links
Garage Technology Ventures: founded
by Guy Kawasaki, offers valuable resources to help entrepreneurs build
their businesses
Investors' Circle: a non-profit
national network of angel and institutional investors, foundation officers
and entrepreneurs who seek to balance financial, social and environmental
returns
MIT
Entrepreneurship Center: trains and develops leaders who will make
high tech ventures successful
NVST
Investor Network: provides entrepreneurs with tools and services to
showcase their opportunity while providing investors access to the deals
they want
NBIA:
National Business Incubation Association: provides information, education,
advocacy and networking resources to bring excellence to the process of
assisting early-stage companies
Small
Business Toolbox: provides helpful customize-able business documents
for download, covering a range of issues, including finance, employee
management, compensation & benefits, marketing, worker safety, recruiting
& hiring, vehicles & equipment, and firing & termination
EntreWorld.org: a
"premier online resource for small business owners, its search engine
delivers the best and most useful information, guidance and contacts for
entrepreneurs. It also accepts and publishes "Entrepreneur's Byline,"
which appeared in BusinessWeek.com
IdeaSphere:
Boston-based membership group that supports start-ups by serving as a
90-person board of advisors
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Corporate
Governance/Financial Service
FASB:
Financial Accounting Standards Board: improve standards of financial
accounting and reporting
IASB:
International Accounting Standards Board:developing a single standard
for financial accounting and reporting
CalPERS
Facts at a Glance: a monthly compilation of information from the California
Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), America's biggest pension
fund, which takes an activist stance in improving corporate governance
Center
for Public Integrity: investigates public service, government accountability
and ethics related issues
Council
of Institutional Investors:120 pension fund members managing more
than $1 trillion serves as voice for institutional shareholders
SEC
EDGAR Search: search online corproate forms and reports
Fortune
500: Fortune's annual list of America's largest companies
Fortune's
100 Fastest-Growing Companies: list of publicly traded companies that
are at least three years old and have revenue and market caps of at least
$50 million
Forbes
500: Forbes' annual report card on America's biggest corporations
Moody's
Investment Service:leading provider of credit ratings
S&P
Comstock: offers real-time information services
National
Association of Corporate Directors: promotes high professional board
standards, creates forums for peer interaction, enhances director effectiveness,
asserts the policy interests of directors, conducts research, and educates
boards and directors concerning traditional and cutting-edge issues
Center
for Corporate Governance: proposes sensible and progressive changes
in corporate structure and management through education and interaction;
provides a forum for business leaders, members of corporate boards, corporate
legal scholars and practitioners, jurists, economists, etc.
Corporate
Governance: serves as a discussion forum and NETwork for shareholders
and stakeholders
who believe active participation by concerned shareholders in governing
corporations will enhance their ability to create wealth.
Institutional
Shareholder Services: the world's leading provider of proxy voting
and corporate governance services; analyzes proxies and issuing vote recommendations
for more than 10,000 U.S. and 10,000 non-U.S. shareholder meetings each
year
IRontheNet's
links: global regulatory organizations, stock exchanges, accounting
organizations, etc.
Glossary
of Financial Terms and Abbreviations: good list of terms maintained
by UK-based Hemscott plc.
Investopedia.com:
a complete, unbiased, and easy-to- understand educational guide to investing
and personal finance; includes a comprehensive investing dictionary as
well as tutorials and articles covering just about every area of the market
ABA
Banking Journal
AFP
Exchange
American
Banker
Bank
Security Report
Bank
Systems + Technology
Bank
Technology News
Business
Finance
CFO
Finanical
Executive
Financial
Technology International
GTNews
Online
Banking Report
Risk
Waters Group
US
Banker
Director
& Boards: quarterly journal dedicated to topics of leadership
and corporate governance
Chief
Executive Magazine: "As the leading source of intelligence for
and about CEOs, it provides ideas, strategies and tactics for top executive
leaders seeking to build more effective organizations"
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Technology:
Hardware, Software & Internet
CNET's
Buzz Meter: CNET's index of top tech trends and terms; each week,
CNET searches logs, traffic patterns, user feedback, news stories, and
message boards for the trends and products with the most buzz. Consistently
popular terms won't always show up. Instead, the Buzz Meter reflects the
trends and products on the rise during a given week
SIIA:
Software & Information Industry Association: provides global services
in government relations, business development, corporate education and
intellectual property protection to more than 800 leading software and
information companies
SDForum:
Software Development Forum: Silicon Valley organization that connects
software professionals, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, industry experts
and major technology companies
BSA:
Business Software Alliance: acts as the voice of the world's software
and Internet industry before governments and with consumers in the international
marketplace. Its members represent the fastest growing industry in the
world. BSA educates computer users on software copyrights and cyber security;
advocates public policy that fosters innovation and expands trade opportunities;
and fights software piracy
ITAA:
Information Technology Association of America: provides information
about the IT industry, its issues, association programs, publications,
meetings, seminars and more...plus links to other valuable web sites
CERT:
the computer emergency response team (CERT) is housed at Carnegie Mellon
University's Software Engineering Institute, and provides information
to protect systems against potential problems; reacts to current problems;
and predicts future problems. CERT handles computer security incidents
and vulnerabilities, publishing security alerts, researching long-term
changes in networked systems, and developing information and training
to help you improve security at your site
Computer
Security Institute: provides education and aggressively advocates
the critical importance of protecting information assets
NIPC:
National Infrastructure Protection Center: brings together representatives
from U.S. government agencies, state and local governments, and the private
sector in a partnership to protect our nation's critical infrastructures
Partnership
for Critical Infrastructure Security: supports the information security,
protection, and assurance interests of the critical infrastructures of
the United States
CIAO:
Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office: coordinates the Federal
Government's initiatives on critical infrastructure assurance, including
raising issues that cut across industry sectors and ensuring a cohesive
approach to achieving continuity in delivering critical infrastructure
services
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Semiconductors
Chip Center: the definitive
electronics resource
EE
Times Network: electronics industry newspaper of record, providing
the story behind the story, what it means and how it can help do your
job better; integrates the online global editions with news and technical
web sites such as CommsDesign.com, EEdesign.com, Embedded.com, Planet
Analog, Semiconductor Business News and The Work Circuit
EBN:
Electronic Business News: delivers the news, analysis and in-depth
reporting of the business strategies and technology trends the electronics
industry needs to develop, manage and execute successful procurement,
technology, business and supply network strategies
ECN:
Electronic Component News: a resource, educational tool, source guide
for the electronic designer
EDN
Access: Electronic Design News: the design source for engineers and
managers worldwide; provides current coverage on all the latest products,
design techniques, emerging technologies and industry trends
Electronics
Business: provides the unique and accurate perspectives, insight and
analysis that senior electronics managers need to make better-informed
business decisions, published by Reed Elsevier
Electronic
News: information and insight; published by Reed Elsevier
Electronics
Weekly: UK-based magazine providing the day's news stories and the
week's major headlines in one place; published by Reed Elsevier
e-InSite:
the network site for Electronic OEM (EOEM) professionals, consolidating
content from 20 market-leading publications, 3 research organizations
and key network partners; published by Reed Elsevier
Embedded.com:
embedded system programming
Compound
Semiconductor.Net: current developments in the industry
Communications
Design: the online technical resource center for OEM design engineers
and technical managers involved in the development of communication systems
and equipment, such as mobile phones, wireless base stations, internetworking
equipment, Internet appliances, broadband modems/equipment, optical networking
systems and more
Microprocessor
Report: provides unbiased, in-depth, and critical analysis of new
high-performance microprocessor developments
Semiconductor
FabTech: daily resource for the IC industry; publishes a quarterly
journal covering the latest develop-ments in the global semiconductor
manufacturing industry
Semiconductor
International: leading technical publication covering the global semiconductor
industry; has the largest circulation to semiconductor fabs and foundries;
sister publications include Microprocessor Report, In-Stat/MDR
SemiSeek:
"the most powerful and useful guide to the semiconductor industry";
offers industry-specific search engine, industry news aggregator, etc.
Silicon
Strategies: business news that tracks the semicondutor foodchain
Solid
State Technology: manufacturing and wafer fabrication
NetSeminars:
semiconductor-focused Web events
EEdesign
Conferences: semiconductor-focused off-line conferences
EEdesign
Industry Groups: other industry links
EEdesign
Open Source EDA Links: compiled by EEdesign
Tech
Expo's Magazine Directory: list of engineering and scientific trade
and technical magazines
SIA:
Semiconductor Industry Association: members comprise 90% of U.S. semiconductor
production & employ 284,000+
SEMI:
Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International:representing more
than 2,400 member companies serving the global semiconductor equipment,
materials and flat panel display industries
SEMI's
links:industry associations and affiliated organizations
FSA:
Fabless Semiconductor Association: serves as a voice and business
enabler of the fabless industry, to achieve a more optimal balance between
wafer supply and demand. The FSA Wafer
and Packaging Demand Survey is designed to effectively gauge the wafer
and packaging technology requirements of the fabless semiconductor sector
Gigascale
Silicon Research Center (GSRC): a multi-university effort to create
a new chip design methodology
Glossary
of EDA standards: sponsored by Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2),
which provides a forum for industry leaders to collaborate on the mounting
industry challenges
IC
Knowledge: provides knowledge resources to the semiconductor industry;
offers the IC cost and economics, process technology and Fab design knowledge
resources; include general reference resources such as a, glossary of
terms, history of the IC, technology trends, other useful references,
free downloads and calculators
IC
Insights Glossary: defines semiconductor terminology
International
SemaTech: strives to be the most effective, global consortium influencing
semiconductor manufacturing technology
MIT's
Semiconductor Subway: provides links to all manner of semiconductor
and microsystems related information, including fabrication facilities,
research activities, standards work, etc. based on the MBTA's "T"
system; maintained by the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories in
an effort to foster education and communication in microsystems and semiconductor
technology
World
Semiconductor Trade Statistics: "market data direct from the
world semiconductor industry itself"
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Telecommunications
FCC: Federal Communications Commission
USTA:
US Telecommunications Association: provides a common ground where
local telephone companies of all sizes can unite to advance the industry's
concerns
NCTA:
National Cable & Telecommunications Association: its mission is
to provide members with a strong national presence by providing a single,
unified voice on issues affecting the cable and telecommunications industry
Naruc: National Assocation of Regulatory
Utility Commissioners: members include the governmental agencies that
regulate the activities of telecommunications, energy, and water utilities.
NARUC's mission is to serve the public interest by improving the quality
and effectiveness of public utility regulation. It has a good glossary
and links
page
NECA:
National Exchange Carrier Association: Formed in 1983 by the FCC as
a not-for-profit membership corporation, NECA plays an important role
in administering the FCC's access
charge plan a plan that helps ensure that telephone service
remains available and affordable in all parts of the country. Directly
and through its subsidiaries, NECA also administers a number of other
significant federal and state programs
ALTS:
Association of Local Telecommunication Services: its mission is to
promote facilities-based local telecommunications competition
SCTE:
Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers: links to many cable
sites
United
Telecom Council: serves members who own, manage or provide critical
telecommunications and IT systems in support of their core business
Broadband
Week: dedicated section within Multichannel
News, focuses on the technological changes in the converging telecom
and cable broadband markets.
Broadcasting
& Cable: tracks technology, finance, programming, regulations advertising
developments for the industry; sister publications include: Cablevision
and Multichannel News
Cablevision:
a data-rich resource enabling cable and telecommunications industry decision-makers
to research the industry’s latest facts and figures. Current trends include
cable’s forays into online media, advances in digital technology and interactive
television, plus the explosion of broadband capabilities enhancing business
and consumer choice
Cable
World: "intelligence for the business of broadband"; published
by Primedia, which publishes Telephony, Global
Telephony, and Wireless
Review and owns Simba, a media-focused
market intelligence and forecaster
Electronic
Media: "the broadcast, cable, interactive weekly"; deliveris
independent news and commentary on the TV industry’s programming, distribution,
technology and deals
Light
Reading: "the global site for optical networking"; an information
resource covering optical networking, a set of technologies that will
propel the Internet into a new era and lead to the convergence of telecommunications
and TV Check out its Top
Ten Lists
Multichannel
News: reports on breaking news relevant to the cable TV and telecommunications
industries; provides comprehensive coverage of all programming, advertising,
marketing, finance, broadband and government activities, as they relate
to cable TV operators and their suppliers, as well as related developments
in broadcast, MDS, DBS, telco and home video
Telecommunications
Magazine: is aimed at fulfilling the information needs of service
providers; has a great resources
list
Telephony:
"intelligence for the broadband economy"; weekly editorial coverage
provides comprehensive and analytical reporting on all aspects of the
broadband economy, including network technology innovations, content developments
and business drivers that affect all forms of broadband communications
service providers. Sister publication to Global
Telephony
Utility
Business: serves the growing needs of 50,000 empowered business leaders,
executives and managers in the electric, telecommunications, gas and water
industries by providing authoritative information, analysis and insight
into the most critical issues facing utility business professionals today
Cook
Report on the Internet: glossary of telecommunication terms
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Transportation/Aviation
Air Transport
Association of America
International
Air Transport Association
Aviation
Now
Aviation
Safety Alliance
FAA:
Federal Aviation Administration
US
Dept. of Transportation
Transportation
Security Administration
MRO
Management
Aviation
Institute: provides a bridge between industry, government, and academia
to address those issues effecting the future of aviation
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Healthcare
and Life Sciences
American
Medical Association
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical
Association
The
New England Journal of Medicine
The
Lancet
Medical
Economics
Modern
Physician
Physician's
Weekly
Annals
of Internal Medicine
American
Medical News
FreeMedicalJournals.com
FDA:
Food and Drug Administration
NIH:
National Institutes of Health
CDC:
Centers for Disease Control
NLM:
National Library of Medicine: the world's largest medical library,
entries range from technical articles to general health info
National
Health Council: representing all segments of the health care community,
NHC works to improve the health of all people, particularly those with
chronic diseases and/or disabilities
Mayo
Clinic Health & Medical Information: provides a gateway to a variety
of online and other resources by which Mayo carries out the mission of
"to be a dependable source of health information for our patients and
the public"
Oncolink.com:
maintained by the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
Guideline.gov:
treatment guidelines from the National Guideline Clearinghouse, a project
of the U.S. Agency for Health-care Research & Quality
National
Center for Biotechnology Information
American
Hospital Association's Health Research & Educational Trust: "transforming
health care through research and education"; focuses on the following
areas: coverage, access and community; workforce; patient safety, quality,
and medication safety
International
Association for Pharmaceutical Science and Technology
Biotechnology
Industry Organization
BioWorld
Biotechnology@nature.com
Technology
in Practice: provides practical insights on technology strategies
that physicians can put into practice
National
Health Care Purchasing Institute: was founded to improve health care
quality by advancing the purchasing practices of major corporations and
government agencies, particularly Fortune 500 companies, Medicare, and
public employers. The Institute's objectives are to help health care purchasers:
save lives, buy higher quality health care, and empower consumers to choose
higher quality health plans and providers
PhRMA:
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America: represents the
country’s leading research-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies
Kaiser
Permanente Institute for Health Policy: links to health policy sites
Center
for Studying Health System Change: a nonpartisan Washington, DC-based
policy research organization that designs and conducts studies focused
on the U.S. health care system to inform the thinking and decisions of
policy makers in government and private industry
Institute
for Health Care Research & Policy: Georgetown University research
center focuses on key issues in health policy and health services research,
including: Center
on an Aging Society, Consumer
Health Care Education Project, Ethical Issues in Smoking Cessation
and Genetics, Health Privacy Project,
Healthinsuranceinfo.net,
and Kaiser Project on Incremental Health Reform
Yahoo
Health: interesting links
AOL
Health: news and interesting links
HQIR
Useful Links: maintained by HQIR, a professional healthcare consulting
firm, includes links to daily news, online publications, trade journals,
research & resources (including government sites), trade associations,
insurence & managed care, consumer information, search engines, etc.
Advance
for Healthcare Information Management: delivers concise, highly focused
information to health care decision-makers. Features news, market intelligence,
advice, opinions and feedback from the field as well as top-priority information
technology topics in the context of practical solutions and strategies
Health
Journal: Wall Street Journal's online one-stop health section,
covering pharma/biotech, health providers/insurance, research/science,
policy/legislation, medical products/technology
Daily
Scan: Wall Street Journal's daily column that provides "important,
provocative or amusing health-industry coverage"
AHA
Resource Center: American Hospital Association's links to other health
care associations, including state metropolitan and regional associations
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Education and Nonprofit
Organizations
US Department of Education:
also provides links
to public and private educational associations and organizations
CASE:
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education: provides education
professionals in alumni relations, communications, and development with
essential tools to advance their institution
NEA:
National Education Association: America's oldest and largest organization
committed to advancing the cause of public education; its members work
at every level of education, from pre-school to university graduate programs
The Chronicle for Higher Education:
the No. 1 news source for college and university faculty members and administrators
Education
Week: covers local, state, and national news and issues from preschool
through the 12th grade, with the goal of raising the level of awareness
and understanding among professionals and the public of important issues
in American education
The
Chronicle of Philanthropy: "the newspaper for the nonprofit world"
The
Foundation Center: its mission is to support and improve institutional
philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field and helping
grantseekers succeed. It Collects, organizes, and communicates information
on U.S. philanthropy; conducts and facilitates research on trends in the
field; and provides education and training on the grantseeking process
AFP:
Association of Fundraising Executives: promotes philanthropy and ethical
fundraising and professionalism in fundraising
The
Boston Foundation: one of the largest community foundations, with
assets of over $530 million, it sponsors special initiatives, convenes
groups of people to explore important issues, and works with other organizations
and with government to find new ways to build community.
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Retail, Consumer, Food &
Beverage
NRF: National Retail
Federation: "the voice of the retail industry"
NPD:
provides infromation to manufacturers, retailers, resellers, distributors
and operators across a broad range of industries, but is primarily known
for its expertise in retail, fashion, food, house & home, and toys
Envirosell:
a behavioral market research and consulting company that examines consumer
shopping behavior using a combination of in-store video recording, observation
and customer intercept interviews; founded by Paco Underhill, author of
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
Toy
Industry Association & Foundation: develops toy safety standards,
distributes information about toys and safe play to institutions, public
organizations, parents and caregivers
Product
Development & Management Association: "thought leaders of
product development & management"
Global New Product Database: "comprehensive
database that monitors worldwide product innovation"
Food
Marketing Institute
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Management
Resources/Consultants
Knowledge @ Wharton
Harvard
Business School Online
Harvard
Business Review
MIT
Sloan School
Sloan
Management Review
MIT
Technology Review
E-Business Forum
The
Conference Board: findings, best practices
The
Business Roundtable: public-policy CEO organization
World
Economic Forum: committed to improving the state of the world
Academy
of Management: a professional association of scholars dedicated to
creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations;
includes a list of email newsletters
on the range of management topics
American
Management Association's MarketPower
NABE: National Association for Business
Economics
NIBM:
National Institute of Business Management
Small
Business Administration
Business
Strategy
Global
POV: points of view behind the technology
Institute
for International Research: the world’s largest international conference
company with 120 different business units; provide unbiased, leading-edge
business information through conferences, workshops, seminars, and the
Internet
Kennedy
Information: management consultant clearinghouse
Consulting
Information Services: trends in management consulting and IT services
American
Society for Quality: leading U.S. quality improvement organization
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Industry Analysts/Market
Researchers
Aberdeen
Group: "market analysis and positioning services for business
technology"
Advanced
Forecasting, Inc.: forecasts semiconductors and related industries,
and related stocks, including ICs, discrete, front-end equipment, test
equipment, disk drives, and PCB
AMR
Research: "bold ideas. compelling research. unparalled results"
ARC
Advisory Group: "enterprise and automation advisory services
for industry executives"; provides strategic planning and technology
assessment services for the manufacturing and industrial markets
Arlen
Communications: specializes in interactive applications and services
in telecommunications and media; has more than 20 years of experience
in online and interactive systems
ASP Street.com's
Market Research listings: snapshots of major Internet market research
firms
Basex:
"what's in IT for you"; provides the knowledge and analysis
necessary for clients to make the right strategic and tactical technology
decisions focussing on collaborative business knowledge and Web services,
with an 18-year track record of accurate findings and visionary analysis
Bloor
Research's IT-Director: UK-based firm provides IT decision makers,
with a one stop source of all current IT news, information, analysis and
advice, free of charge
Burton
Group: "driving network evolution"; covers directories,
security and networks
Butler
Group: "Europe's leading IT analyst company providing analysis
without compromise"
Cahners Instat/MDR: "covers the full spectrum of digital communications
market research, from vendor to end-user"
Creative
Strategies: "get ahead of the curve"; helps its clients
stay ahead of the curve by:anticipating future markets and technologies;
creating new partnerships; developing innovative business plans; understanding
emerging technologies; and devising new paradigms
Current Analysis: provides
competitive response solutions, enables companies to anticipate and respond
quickly and effectively to competitive threats and customer opportunities
Datamonitor:
London-based market researcher
Dell'Oro
Group: specializes in strategic competitive analysis in the networking
industry; mobility, optical, access, routers, ethernet switch
Delphi
Group: "delivers strategic advantage at the intersection of business
and IT"; core competencies include the emerging technologies of collaborative
commerce, portals, content and knowledge management, enterprise wireless,
and e-Learning
Economy.com:
provider of economic, financial, and industry research designed to meet
the diverse planning and information needs of business organizations,
governments, and professional investors worldwide
eMarketer
Inc.: "charting the future of business"; aggregates the
latest research and news about internet and e-business statistics from
over 1,000 sources
Envisioneering:
offers market research and counsel to executives active in Digital Media
Creation, Distribution, Access & Retention
Forrester
Research: "helping business thrive on technology change"
Forward
Concepts: semiconductor industry analysts
Frost
& Sullivan: an international marketing consulting and training
company that analyzes critical market challenges that clients must address
to become successful competitors in their industry; focusing on these
challenges in order to provide our clients with Market Engineering strategies
which enable them to increase revenues, market share and profitability
Gartner-Dataquest:
research and advisory firm that "helps more than 10,500 clients understand
technology and drive business growth"
Giga
Information Group: "technology advice. business results";
provides objective research, pragmatic advice in application development;
collaboration, knowledge and content management; communications and networking;
communications and networking; enterprise applications; IT management
and services; mobile enterprise; security
Gilder
Group: provides cutting-edge insight for technology leaders, managers,
and investors around the globe through its publications, conferences,
and interactive websites
Gomez:
"Internet quality measurement"; ranks the top firms in key areas
of online customer experience
Infonetics Research: covering
the data networking and telecommunications industries, and provides objective
analysis of end-users, service providers, and product manufacturers through
in-depth research studies, quarterly market share and forecast services,
and consulting and custom research services
International
Biometric Group:provides in-depth analysis on biometric technologies,
vendors, applications, performance, and privacy; a source of objective,
independent biometric information
Jupiter
Media Metrix: "business intelligence for business results";
helps companies develop, extend and integrate business strategies across
online and emerging channels
Kagan
& Associates: "leading source of media business news and
data"
Kinetic
Information: focuses on business value; covers enterprise interoperability
(EIO); BPI/BPM, workflow & Web services; middleware & connectivity tools;
ERP, CRM & enterprise solutions; storage, archiving & imaging; application
servers; wireless & mobile solutions; document & knowledge management;
e-learning, e-forms & portals; authentication, verification & security;
professional services automation
KMI
Research: "world leader in fiber optics market research"
IC
Insights: "dedicated to providing high-quality, cost-effective
market research for the integrated circuit industry"
IDC:
"analyze the future"
IMS
Health: a market-research firm focusing on pharmaceuticals
Industry
Directions: "positioning companies for growth and industry intelligence
for strategic advantage"; focuses on manufacturing and supply chain
analysis
INFACT
Research: "affordable, actionable timely fact-based competitive
intelligence and market research services"; international research
firm that follows financial technology and outsourcing; real estate technology;
Internet collaboration technology; customer and business relationship
management (CRM/BRM); employee relationship management, knowledge management,
and emerging technologies
Infonetics
Research: international market research and consulting firm covering
the networking and telecommunications industries
InformationWeek
Report Directory: lists hundreds of research reports (for sale), including
links of research partners
Insight
Express: "research for the right decision"; provides fully
automated market research that leverages the power of the Internet to
deliver timely, affordable, and reliable research conducted among targeted
audiences, customers and employees
Institute
for the Future: "Future success depends on making the right strategic
decisions today"; helps members make sense out of complexity by forecasting
and mapping critical technological, demographic, and business trends and
analyzing their implications for its members
Market Research: the largest
database of market research publications with 50,000 titles from more
than 350 leading publishers
META
Group: "bottom-line guidance for IT and business transformation"
NPD
Group: "essential market information"; provides essential
market information across a broad range of industries for leading manufacturers,
retailers, resellers, distributors and operators to uncover market opportunities,
to strengthen channel relationships and to benchmark industry performance
Precursor
Group: "the leader in anticipating change"; encompasses
the communications and technology sectors as well as industries substantially
affected by the Internet and electronic commerce, both domestically and
globally. These focus industries include, but are not limited to: telecommunications
services and equipment (wireline and wireless); cable; DBS; TV and radio
broadcasting; Internet service providers (ISPs and ASPs); portals and
interactive content; networking equipment; enterprise and e-commerce software;
computers; semiconductors; information services; e-retailing and those
companies involved in electronic commerce.
Release
1.0: influential monthly report that covers the converging worlds
of technology, communications and the Internet
RHK
Telecommunications Industry Analysis: "charting the telecom future";
provides analysis of advanced technologies for the global public telecommunications
network; provides business and technology decision support, strategic
analysis, research and consulting to equipment vendors, service providers,
and the financial community
RoperASW:
"the power of intelligence in action"; incorporates Mediamark
Research Inc. (MRI); NOP Research;
Market Measures Interactive (MMI);
Strategic Marketing Corporation (SMC)
Sageza Group: analyzes key trends
in the enterprise IT market, and monitors operating systems, storage,
software, and services; acquired Zona Research
Andrew
Seybold's Outlook 4Mobility: focuses on the convergence of wireless,
mobility and the internet
Seybold
Reports.com: published by Jonathan, and serves professsionals in the
publishing industry with newsletters, consulting and educational events
Patricia
Seybold Group: "strategic consultants & thought leaders";
includes e-commerce, the Internet, and collaborative computing
A
Gary Shilling & Co.: analyzes and forecasts economic and financial
developments in the U.S. and abroad
Soft-Letter:
a twice-monthly insider's newsletter that reports on business issues and
trends in personal computer software industry
Synergy
Research Group: "enhancing your business development decisions";
delivers market research for the networking and telecommunications industries
Outsell:
focuses exclusively on the Information Content Industry; provides fact-based
research, analysis and advice about every aspect of content strategy,
deployment and use to a wide range of vendors, buyers and users of information
Ovum:
"defining the future"; specializes in business software; digital
media; knowledge management; mobile/wireless; next generation telecom;
and software infrastructure
Pioneer
Consulting:"market research for the broadband era"; produces
market research reports and performs custom consulting in the following
six areas: optical networking, submarine fiber optic systems; broadband
wireless access; satellite systems; emerging broadband access; IP network
convergence
Technologic
Partners: tracks the important strategic business and financial issues
affecting venture-backed high technology companies
Technology
Business Research: provides analyses of computer and networking equipment
companies and their products in the high-technology market
Technology
Research News: an independent news journal covering technology research
in university, government and corporate laboratories. Every story published
by TRN is the result of direct, original reporting
The
451: provides "insight and commentary in the technology, communications
and media industries. Key events are appraised on a day-to-day basis,
in conjunction with extended and targeted research reports"
World
Advertising Research Center: provides cutting-edge thinking across
all areas of marketing communications, focused on best practices, effectiveness
and efficiency
World
Markets Research Centre: provider of business-critical information,
including an Economic Forecasting service, for multinational corporations,
financial institutions and governments
Yankee
Group: provides research and consulting services focusing on global
communications, wireless, Internet, and e-Business markets and technologies
Veronis
Suhler Stevenson: merchant bank that also produces widely quoted research
on the media, communications, and advertising industies. Its Internet
Research Library contains reliable data and valuable sources for the
industry and financial information you need
VSLI
Research: "where the chip industry clicks to find its weather";
provides market research and economic analysis on the technical, business,
and economic aspects of the high technology semiconductor manufacturing
industry
ZapThink:
"Focused research, analysis, and insight on XML and Web Services"
Network
World's "Analyzing the Analists": information on IT Research
providers
Northern
Lights' Market Researchers list: extensive list of market research
firms and their reports
Yahoo's
Market Researchers list: extensive list of market research firms
ITSMA:
IT Services Marketing Advisor: membership association for services
marketing, branding and sales practices in the information technology
industry
ResearchConnect:
a searchable research database connecting the media and investors with
leading independent financial, business, economic, political, technical,
legal, medical, scientific, and social research
BitPipe
IT Research: "the leading syndicator of in-depth information
technology (IT) content including white papers, webcasts, case studies
and product literature. Bitpipe distributes content from over 3,500 leading
IT vendors and over 60 top analyst firms including IDC, Aberdeen Group,
Meta Group, and Yankee Group via the Bitpipe Network, which has agreements
with InformationWeek, eWeek, CIO Insight, Network Computing, PC Magazine,
Forbes.com and over 70 other leading IT and business-related websites"
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"Opinion Leaders"
Technology
Marketing's 2002 Influencer Report: Provides rankings of the top Influencers
by media (trades, business magazines, newspapers, broadcast, consumers,
Web); top Influencers by category; and 10 hottest tech media
Stewart
Alsop: Fortune's "On InfoTech" columnist, VC and
long-timer industry watcher
Deborah
Branscum: A contributing editor to Newsweek magazine and a
freelance technology writer and editor for other publications, including
Fortune.com's "Valley Talk" column
Po
Bronosn: The author of "What Should I Do With My Life?," "The Nudist
on the Late Shift, and Other True Tales of Silicon Valley"
David
Coursey: As executive editor of ZDNet's AnchorDesk, Coursey writes
a daily column about technology-related products, services, news, trends
or issues that is distributed via e-mail to 1.5 million opt-in subscribers.
He also hosts a daily hour talk program
Robert
X. Cringely: Gossip columnist for InfoWorld
Robert
X. Cringely: Through a cruel twist of fate having to do with
federal judges and unscrupulous lawyers there is, for the moment, more
than one Robert X. Cringely. This one claims to be the one true Cringely,
who is also a PBS "personality" and author of "Triumph of the
Nerds"
Nick
Denton: Blog maintained by former Financial Times reporter
and serial entrepreneur (Moreover.com,
FirstTuesday.com, etc.).
He's also the publisher of Gawkers,
a Manhattan-based "weblog magazine"
Bob
Evans: SVP, editor-in-chief for InformationWeek
Spencer
F. Katt: Gossip columnist for eWeek
Brad
DeLong: An economic historian at the UC at Berkeley, puts recent developments
in historical context
John
Dvorak: Keeps tabs on various online activities of computer columnist
John Dvorak, and contains links to all known Dvorak-related sites
Jim
Fallows: Author, journalist (The Atlantic Monthly, US News &
World Report), and broadcast commentator; also serves as executive
producer AGENDA
conference
Dan
Gillmor: "News, views and Silicon Valley diary"; columnist
for San Jose Mercury News
James Gleick: Former New
York Times columnist on technology, best-seller author and successful
Internet entrepreneur
David Kirkpatrick:
Fortune's East Coast based technology columnist and member
of its Board of Editors, consistently ranked by Technology Marketing
as one of the industry's most influential
Scott Kirsner: Writes
weekly Innovation
Economy column for the Boston Globe's Technology & Innovation
section, and a co-founder of Nantucket
Conference on Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Future
Forward: The New England Technology Summit
InformationWeek's
Listening Post: InformationWeek's columnists
InfoWorld
"Opinions": InfoWorld's columnists
Steve
Levy: Senior editor and chief technology writer for Newsweek
Peter Lewis: Reviews personal
tech for Fortune; formerly reviewer for The New York Times
David
Lidsky: Technology editor for Fortune Small Business magazine
Larry
Magid: Syndicated columnist, Larry's world, aka "PC Answer Man";
contains a great list of online news sources
Stephen
Manes: Contributing editor to Forbes & PC World
Kevin
Maney: Columnist for USA Today
Regis
McKenna: Insights from technology marketing pioneer
Jerry Michalski: Pundit who
has "been running under the radar for four years"
Walt
Mossberg: Walt's weekly Wall Street Journal's "Personal
Technology" column and other technology features
Rafe
Needleman: "Catch of the Day" column by veteran technology
journalist Rafe Needleman, first appeared in Red Herring, now appears
in Business 2.0
News.com
Perspectives: A dose of commentary from leading industry analysts
and pundits
David
Pogue: "Welcome to the Web's richest resource about New York
Times columnist David Pogue"
Stephen
Roach: According to WSJ's David Wessel, Roach is "Morgan Stanley's
prolific, peripatetic and provocative" economist, "who styles
himself as 'the house skeptic with a seemingly chronic case of jetlag'"
Noah
Shachtman: DefenseTech blog: "the future of the military, law
enforcement and national security" Schachtman writes for The New
York Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Post, Tech Central Station,
and Wired News.
Chris
Shipley: Editor and publisher of DEMOletter;
executive producer of the DEMO
Conferences
Clay
Shirky: Writer and consultant on Internet technologies, focussing
on the rise of decentralizing technologies such as peer-to-peer and Web
Services; contains a mix of essays, drafts of ideas, and reader commentary
Stephanie
Stahl: Wditor of InformationWeek
Kara
Swisher: Wall Street Journal's "Boom Town" columnist, reports
on San Jose
Dylan
F. Tweney: Experienced tech journalist, a contributing writer for
Business 2.0, the author of a respected technology newsletter,
and the publisher of tinywords.com, an internationally recognized daily
haiku zine. Read The Tweney Report
Amy D. Wohl: A columnist to VARBusiness
magazine, and a frequent contributor to the trade and general business
press on the Internet, software, computing, computer trends, and technology
ZDNet's
Big Thinkers: Weekly program featuring "Today's most brilliant
minds"
Technology
Transfer Institute Vanguard: A forum for the introduction,
discussion and evaluation of emerging and breakthrough information technologies;
advisory members include: John Perry Barlow and Nicholas Negroponte
Venture
Blog: Written by August Partners, a Silicon Valley VC firm, this blog
provides insight from VCs on technology that may, or may not, change the
economy as we know it
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Associations
PRSA:
Public Relations Society of America
NIRI:
National Investor Relations Institute
Council of Public Relations Firms
Publicity
Club of New England
IABC:
International Association of Business Communicators
IABC:
New England Chapter
Chartered
Institute of PR (UK)
Public
Relations Consultancy Association (PRCA)
The
Publicity Club of London
International
Public Relations Association (UK)
Arthur
W. Page Society: a professional organization with a single mission:
to strengthen the management policy role of the chief corporate public
relations officer. It also has a great list of PR
L inks
Institute
for PR: the only independent foundation in the field of public relations
focusing on research and education
NAIPRA: North American Association of
Independent PR Agencies: an online network for heads of independent
PR firms, and the only organization for agencies not owned by another
company; provides information on managing your agency
SHSMD:
Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development
LACP:
League of American Communication Professionals: encourages excellence
in the practice of communications for all organizations by facilitating
discussion of best-in-class practices in communications and recognize
those who demonstrate exemplary communications behaviors
Financial
Communications Society
NFIB: National Federation of Independent
Business
Mass
e-Comm
Mass Software & Internet Council
Mass Telecommunications Council
North
Shore Technology Council
Boston
Ideas Group
National
Press Club
Writers
Guild of America
ERMA:
Entertainment Research & Marketing Association: product placement
information
Shop.org:
objective information about online marketing and merchandising, cross-channel
integration and organization structure
EFF:
Electronic Frontier Foundation: works to protect our fundamental rights
regardless of technology; to educate the press, policymakers and the general
public about civil liberties issues related to technology; and to act
as a defender of those liberties
AEA:
American Electronics Association: "Advancing the business of
technology"; AeA is the nation's largest high-tech trade association
that spans the high-technology spectrum, from software, semiconductors
and computers to Internet technology, advanced electronics and telecommunications
systems and services
Association
Central: gateway to association-related information
Virtual
Community of Associations
American
Society of Association Executives: Gateway to Associations
Associations
on the Net
Weddle's
Association Directory: lists several thousand associations from around
the world by their primary professional/occupational focus and/or industry
of interest and provides a link to the Web-site they operate
Hundred
Years Association: is comprised of companies and not-for-profit organizations
that have been in existence for more than a century
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Conferences
Business
Week Conferences
CFO
Conferences
D:
All Things Digital: May 27 - 29, 2003 in San Diego. Hosted by Wall
Street Journal's Walter S. Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Limited to 300
participants
Demo
Forbes
Conferences
Fortune's
Leadership Forum: June 26 - 27, 2007 in New York City
Fortune's
Most Powerful Women Summit: Oct. 1 -3, 2007 in Dana Point, CA
Future
Forward: New England Technology Summit
Nantucket Conference on Entrepreneurship & Innovation: May 3-5, 2007
in Nantucket
PopTech:
Oct. 17-20, 2007 in Camden, ME. Hosted by Tom DeMarco
RSA Conference: Feb., 2008
in San Francisco
TechXNY:
Sept. 16-18, 2003 in New York. Hosted by CMP Media
Telecosm:
Oct. 17-18, 2007 in Lake George, CA. Hosted by George Gilder and Forbes
Magazine
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Global
Time
Zone Converter: make sure you know what time it is
Online
Conversion: time zones, US lengths & weights to metric, Fahrenheit
temperatures to Celsius, etc.
Currency
Converter: exchange rates for 164 currencies
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Offbeat
The
Onion: self-proclaimed
"America's finest news source"
Obscure
Store: Weird news collected by Jim Romenesko
News of the Weird: bizarre-but-all-true
news compiled by Chuck Shepherd
The
Borowitz Report: topical humor such as "Saddam Signs up for 'Do-Not-Call'
List" and "Small Children May Be Traumatized by Ann Coulter,
Psychologist Says"
Haypenny:
"a regularly updated electronic journal," it's often humorous
takes on the world.
Snopes.com:
the best Urban Legends reference pages
Straight
Dope: "fighting ignorance since 1973 (it's taking longer than
we thought)"; deals strictly with factual questions and provides
factual answers. Questions you've always wanted to know the answers to.
Questions like: What are the real lyrics to "Louie Louie"? When they execute
a guy by lethal injection, do they swab off his arm first?
The
Smoking Gun: exclusive documents cool, confidential, quirky
Radio
Showprep's resources: resources for radio DJs, includes weird news,
celebrity gossip; almanacs & calendars
Acronym
Finder: database of more than 241,000 abbreviations and acronyms about
computers, technology, telecommunications, and military acronyms and abbreviations
Acronym
Finder Random Systematic Buzz Phrase Projector Acronym Generator (AFRSBPPAG):
generate your own buzz phrases
Acronym Search: source for
acronyms and abbreviations
Buzz
Killer:"Journalists (from Forbes, Fortune) trying
to stop a few thousand buzzwords"
Buzz
Whack: dedicated to de-mystifying buzzwords
Jargon
Box: find the right meaning and the context of every management guru
Web
Economy Buzz Generator: combines verbs, adjectives and nouns to effortlessly
form Web Economy nonsense like "e-enable innovative convergence"
Acme
Vaporizer High-Tech CEO Quote Generator: enter the CEO's name, company
name and length of quote, and be amazed at the nonsense generated
some are eerily realistic!
The
Dialectizer: converts English text to any of several comic dialects
The
Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation: What if Lincoln had delivered
the Gettysburg Address in PowerPoint?
Yours
is a Very Bad Hotel: PowerPoint about a horrible hotel experience
Comedy
Squared: "where the fun(ny) never stops"; links to sites,
resources for comedians
WitWords:
"your source for funny words and humorous people!"
Clint
Howard Variety Show: "the shortest, cheapest variety show in
the history of entertainment"
The
Bathroom Diaries: the world's best public toilets
TS2: The Trade Show about Trade Shows:
TS2 is the trade show industry’s premier destination for exhibit and event
marketing specialists. Attendees are involved in the planning, implementation,
development, and execution of special events, trade shows, sponsorships,
promotions or sales and marketing initiatives. It is no coincidence which
organization immediately follows this one
The
Boredom Institute: was created to spoof the media, with lists like
"Most Boring Celebrities," but has since evolved to examine
the more serious connections between boredom and its impact on individuals
and society
Write
News: news, features and resources for media and publishing professionals
Wordplay:
site for screenwriters
So
You Wanna: "teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught
you in school." This link is to So You Wanna Be A Sitcom Writer?
Wordweaving:
links for writers
Freelance
Success (FLX): "the ultimate resource for established, professional
nonfiction writers"; has a strong resources
page
Marcia
Yudkin: advice for freelance journalists
National
Society of Newspaper Columnists: offers advice, conferences for columnists
National
Writers' Union: the only labor union that represents freelance writers
in all genres, formats, and media; contains great info on contracts, deadbeat
publishers, and links. Has a Boston
chapter
Editorial
Freelancers Association: a nonprofit, professional organization of
self-employed editors, writers, indexers, proofreaders, researchers, desktop
publishers, translators, etc.
Famous Name Changes: name
changes of the rich & famous
IMDB:
Internet Movie Database: best trivia site for movies, TV
Script-o-Rama:
offers lots of TV and film scripts plus links to others
Marketing
Evaluations/TvQ: provides rankings of fame based on the so-called
Q score: the percentage of viewers who know a celebrity and have a favorable
impression of him or her
Hollywood
Stock Exchange: buy and sell virtual shares of celebrities, movies
and music
Jump the Shark: defining moment
when a television program has peaked; it's all downhill from here
Reality
Blurred: site that holds up a mirror to Reality TV programs
Television Without Pity: offers
reviews of current television shows, along with episode outlines. Is sometimes
used as a focus group by Hollywood, which sometimes alters programs based
on the site
Diet
Coke of Snark: TV recap site
Dumb
Warnings: Warning: this site provides dumb warnings, dumb instructions,
rules, and other information frequently placed on packages
The
Brunching Shuttlecocks: home of the Alanis
Morissette Random Lyric Generator and Ratings
of such topics like Spider-Man's Powers, New Year's Eve Traditions, Dante's
Inferno Punishments, etc.
KissThisGuy:
"the archive of misheard lyrics"
TerraFly: satellite images of
your town
MedMadness:
humor links
Muckety.com: exploring the paths
of power and influence
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Used Books & Movies
AbeBooks
Alibris
BookAvenue
BookFinder
PowellBooks
StrandBooks
ISBN
Book Search: compare book pricing
VideoFinders
Amazon
Associate
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