Using the Internet as a research tool

Magazine Publishers Assn. Seminar 3/4/99

Panelists:

David Strom,, David Strom Inc.
Sandy Drucker, News America
Danny Scheman, MediaFarm
Elizabeth Klampert,City Bar Association

Company Sleuth

This is your Personal Sleuth Report for Sun Feb 14, 1999. Listed below are all of the new items Company Sleuth found on your stakeout companies last night.

MessageMedia Inc. (MAIL) SEC Filings........................2 Yahoo! Message Boards..............1 To view this company's report.

Netopia, Inc. (NTPA) Silicon Investor StockTalk.........1 To view this company's report.

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Dejanews (searches Usenet News feeds for people or keywords)

Inquisit

From: agents@inquisit.com Subject: strom inc Agent Test Results You asked me to search the Business, High Technology and News for articles containing david strom. I've searched in my News Archive using the same search as the one contained in your agent "strom inc". Over the past 30 days, this search would have returned an average of less than one article per day. The results of my archive search are shown below. Results: There are 2 articles (headlines follow). Cisco Announces Innovative Internet Commerce Solution (Business Wire; 1240 words; 02/16/99) Delano Launches Industry First E-mail Application Server; Pioneers New Product Category (Business Wire; 1312 words; 02/08/99)

Infobeat (best custom news feeds)

Research Buzz Newsletter

TracerLock (tracks web page mentions of keywords)

(You are receiving this mail after signing up with TracerLock at http://www.peacefire.org/tracerlock/. See the end of this message for instructions on how to unsubscribe.) Dear dstrom, The following web pages have been indexed since 2/27/99 and match the term "David Strom": Title: Justin Weber's Computing Center's Windows NT Links section URL: http://www.virtualdr.com/windowsnt/links.html Description: Welcome to my Windows NT Links section. Below are a variety of related pages. Microsoft Windows NT Workstation home page. Microsoft Windows NT Server home.

Newsalert (personalized news site)

Google (Scriptable search portal)

iSleuth (news site)

Nua (online content management)

Association for Interactive Media

Discussion questions

What are the best and worst ways to conduct Internet research? How can you be more effective at using the search engines/portals by choice of keywords or topics? Is one site better/worse than others?
What are some of your techniques and methods you have found over the years to make your own searches more effective?
What are some of your favorite sites for research that may or may not be well known that you can share with the audience?
Do you use DejaNews and other services to track what is being said about your company in the newsgroups? How about to keep track of what your own staff is saying about your company?
Do services that broadcast notifications of particular companies and keywords like CompanySleuth and Inquisit help you in your research? What are some others that you use to keep track of competitors?
How can you guard the privacy of your employees from ill-intentioned Internet users?
How do all these Internet tools compare with traditional library paper and reference works? Are there some things that you are better off turning to the library for rather than the Internet?