FUMSI Features

• The Economist
  Along with The New Yorker, The Economist is the only "premium" magazine I still receive in print form.  I continue to be amazed at how much quality original content is packed into each issue, and The Economist folks are always adding more features and content to the online version in ways that integrate very well with the print edition. I tend to use the online version for business and political stories and the print version for the excellent arts and sciences coverage.
  
  
• NPR and BBC
  I'm a huge public radio listener and both NPR and the BBC have done a much better job of exploiting the web than most print-based organizations.  NPR.org is an essential supplement to the over-the air broadcast, both for catching up on shows I have missed and also for original content on topics such as music, books and finance and to send links to items I like to friends and business associates.
  
  The BBC World Service no longer broadcasts to the United States, but the BBC website is a great way to keep up with politics, and sports and arts news from my country of birth, as well as being an excellent source of world news.
  
  
• The Daily Beast
  Tina Brown knows how to edit. As a content curator focusing on business and finance content, I especially appreciate The Daily Beast's intelligent distillations of top news items across the spectrum of politics, business, arts and sports that captures the zeitgeist.
  
  
• Executive Blogs and www.avc.com
  There aren't many wealthy corporate executive bloggers who aren't just tooting their own horn (or who even write their blog themselves) but Ted Leonsis is one of the exceptions. OK, so I'm a Washington Capitals fan, but Ted's Take also is thoughtful on technology, management, philanthropy, documentary film and just life in general. And he doesn't waste words. I also enjoy Fred Wilson's blog at AVC.com, not only for his views on venture capital and to learn where technology is headed, but also for his personal reviews on products such as the iPad and his thoughts on management and leadership.

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In the monthly VIP magazine, specialists offer practical advice for business information professionals and VIP's team of contributing editors comment on what's happening in the industry.

VIP Insider feature this month...
Social networking services can be an absolute gold mine for researchers, giving you the vital background you need on your prospect to enable you to warm up your cold calls. But, as business researcher Ellen Naylor explains, they're not a panacea; sometimes they don't tell you enough about your prospects - perhaps because they deliberately keep their personal details scant - or don't give you enough prospects to make your results viable. So sometimes pre cold calling can be a real time saver and using social networks a waste of time - although you do need to understand your prospect's motivation if you're to make the call successful.

InScope this month includes...
Managing copyright is much more about managing behaviour than applying technological fixes, FreePint's survey on Copyright Policies and Practices concludes. But end users don't always see information managers as the corporate copyright specialists, even if they do have that formal role; there are opportunities here that information professionals need to seize.
Read the full story at: http://www.vivavip.com/go/e28480

From Tap the Wire: Industry News...
Seventy nine per cent of Fortune Global 100 companies are using at least one of the four platforms Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or corporate blogs, according to a recent report. But if they really want to reach clients in different local markets, they need to understand the cultural differences in the way social media platforms are used in different parts of the world.
Read the full story at: http://www.vivavip.com/go/e28603

And from Tap the Wire: Product News...
Big changes are signified at Salesforce.com following its agreement to acquire the crowd-sourced business contact database company Jigsaw. Not only will it make it easier for Salesforce.com's customers to locate information on individual contacts without having to enter it themselves, but it will also enable Salesforce to take advantage of the estimated $3 billion market for cloud-based data services.
Read the full story at: http://www.vivavip.com/go/e28859

Horizon - early warning for decision makers...
Horizon this month considers the implications of LinkedIn's withdrawal from market research, shows how knowledge workers' confidence in their awareness of copyright issues isn't always justified, and warns that the importance organisations attach to information management isn't always reflected in their practices.

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Resource of the Week - Pathfinder for Government Statistics From GODORT

I have the sort of day job where someone is always asking for statistics - and the source must be highly credible. Which means a lot of time poking around in government websites. That is why I am always happy to find a good pathfinder put together by knowledgeable folks - such as this one from the America Library Association's Government Documents Round Table (GODORT).

This guide is simple but elegant. On the left side, you'll find a list of links to General Topics and Sites - which include "the usual suspects" like the Census Bureau's American FactFinder, Fedstats, and the Statistical Abstract of the United States. But there was also a link to one resource here that was completely new to me - this comprehensive Statistics and Demographics resource from the University of Texas Libraries.

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