CARA Presention
October,
2009
Irvine, CA
Gary
Price
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- Mobile is All The Rage, Look What's Coming! Date Check
- No Database or Web Resource is Perfect, Not Even
Google
- Know About and USE a Wide
Variety of Tools and Resources, Especially When Searching for People
- Build Your Own "Virtual"
Reference Shelf, Keep it Organized (Easier Said Than Done)
- General Purpose Web Engines
Like Google and Bing
- Each has Strengths and
Weaknesses
- Learn to Limit Your Google
Searches from the Outset (Most of this Works on All Engines)
- Limiting to Only Specific Sites and Domains, Narrowing and Expanding is Easy
- Keeping Track of Web Page Changes, Keeping Track of a Persences Presence on the Web
- What about Social Media?, Verification is a Must
- Facebook Now With Over 300 Million Users
- LinkedIn: 50 Million Users
- Twitter: 18 Million Users in 2009, 26 Million in 2010
- Many interfaces, the Three
I Use Most Often:
- If You're Tracking People or Companies, You Might Want to Consider a Twitter Client
- Business: SEC Filings
- Most
of You Likely Have Fee-Based Alert Services but SECinfo.com is great,
searchable, contains Canadian filings and offers free alerts. Heavy
users have to pay. They'll Let You Know after a while.
- SkyGrid
- Real Time Finance and Business News (Automatically Updates Every Few Seconds)
- If You Don't Have Access to a University,
Take ADVANTAGE of What Public Libraries Offer For FREE
- Public Records, Finding
People
- Finding People
(Again:No Database is Perfect, Especially Free Services and These Tools When Combined Have the Potential of Being Useful)
- Relationships Between People, Companies