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Million Short

Million Short is a search engine that allows a user to remove up to remove the top 1 million most popular websites from the results lists. Depending on your search can remove the top 100, 1K, 10K, or 100K websites from the drop down option next to the search box.

40+ Online Competitive Intelligence Tools

Barry Hurd of Thoughts on the Digital Divide has provide a substantial list of over 40 online tools for competitive intelligence. 

Panther Logic

Panther Logic is a competitive intelligence software that tracks a company's competitor. Panther has the ability to give notifications, summaries, new information, websites and social media in the industry. If you are interested to learn more about this tool, you can request an invitation for a sneak peek.

60 Apps in 60 Minutes

Presenters Scott Brown and Joy Murphy conducted a session on mobile apps you need to know at the SLA 2012 conference.

Social Information: Gaining competitive and business advantage using social media tools

Scott Brown's book, Social Information: Gaining Competitive and Business Advantage using Social Media Tools, is available to purchase. The book provides different approaches to using social medial tools in the business and competitive field. It is a highly recommended source for professional in a variety of disciplines: competitive intelligence, business research, libraries, information professionals, intelligence analysts, and marketing personnel.

Competitive Intelligence V. Knowledge Management

John McGonagle's article provided a list of differences and disciplines between Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Management. 

WhoGotFunded

WhoGotFunded.com is a website that tracks venture capital developments, deals and funding events in every industry and region in the world. The website was created by Digimind, a global leader in competitive intelligence, with conjunction with Daedalus, a company specializing in sementic analysis.

How to Research Private Companies

Jocelyn Stillwell-Tong, research librarian at Nossaman, provided a list of resources librarians and information professionals can use while conducting research on private companies.  Here is the article.

Fyi. You can contact research through social media (Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.), wikis and other databases such as PrivCo and Capital IQ.

CI Division: Workshops at the SLA Annual Meeting

The Competitive Intelligence Division is offering 3 different workshops at the SLA Annual Meeting in Chicago at the McCormick Place Convention Center/Hilton Chicago on Saturday, July 14th and Sunday, July 15th.

Greg Castanias, Jones Day Library Partner, will speak @ the PLL Summit

For those who are planning to attend the AALL Annual Conference in Boston this year.

If you missed the riveting speech Greg Castanias, Jones Day Library partner, gave at the PLL Summit in Philadephia, you are in luck. Back by popular demand, Greg Castanias and two other Library Partners, will discuss the value proposition librarians bring to the table and how they see our roles evolving at firms.

This is a great opportunity for Boston and northeast law librarians to invite their Library partners, CEOs, COOs, CIOs, CMOs, and any other "C" levels to hear directly from Library partners at prominent firms talk about how the Library and Law Librarian expertise is being used to provide cutting edge practice support and helping to drive the bottom line through competitive intelligence, KM and other initiatives that drive the business of law.

Register NOW to attend the PLL Summit that will take place on July 21, 2012 at the Marriott in Boston. At $145 for an all day education event, this is a bargain buster event!!!

To register online, please have your credit card ready. We accept American Express, MasterCard, or VISA. You will also have the option to select pay by Purchase Order or Check online. Registration credentials will not be mailed.

eDataSource

eDataSource is an online competitive intelligence service that provides insights into sales trends at major online retailers and subscription services. Founded in 2003, the company also is the worldwide leader in competitive intelligence for email, social media and ecommerce activity, based on active monitoring of more than 800,000 consumer inboxes and 9,000 brands. The company provides strategic analytics products and services for online marketers, publishers and their service providers.

RivalEdge

RivalEdge is a private company based in Silicon Valley, California that specializes in monitoring the legal industry by tracking press releases, news, events, publications, social media and etc. The company also keeps users inform of changes attorneys and other professionals profiles in the legal field. RivalEdge is a member of the Better Business Bureau.

GlobalData

GlobalData is an intelligence strategic business solutions database that provides in-depth primary and secondary search in a wide range of professional industries such as Oil and Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Alternative Energy, Clean Technology and etc. In addition, GlobalData draws insights and analysis of company and industry profiles, along with competitive data and market trends.

Open Site Explorer

Open Site Explorer is a free search engine tool that performs competitive and marketing research. You can search 65 billion URLs and 9.2 trillion links.

Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) Annual Conference

The Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) Annual Conference & Exhibition is May 14-17, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA. For information on registration, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors, please go to this link below:

http://www.scip.org/content.cfm?itemnumber=10422

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Capital IQ

A Standard & Poor's business founded in 1999, Capital IQ collects accurate, timely data and analytical information for global financial professionals. Their clientele is mainly academia, government, corporations, consultant firms, private equity firms, investment banks, and research analyst companies. Interested in a free trial, sign up here. In August they launched an iPad app, read more.