Feed Readers De-Mystified at Sep-23 Lunch & Learn Webinar

August 29th, 2010 Sean Murphy

I will be giving a short presentation on  “Feed Readers De-Mystified–Tips For Keeping Informed” at the September 23 Lunch & Learn Webinar hosted by People on the Go.

• Cost: No Charge
• When: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM PDT
• Register: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/151449787

I will outline some important ways to monitor information about your business and industry on the web. The web has become the primary medium of business communication and information gathering: it is imperative that you learn to monitor new developments and relevant events for your job or business. We will explore a range of tools and time saving tips to keep abreast within your industry of clients, competitors, and relevant developments. This session will explore:

• Popular Feed Readers
• How they can help you stay current
• Limitations and Shortcomings
• Demo of the tools including
  • Google Alerts
  • Google Reader
  • Netvibes
  • Infominder
  • Eqentia

Some related blog posts:

• Theresa Shafer’s “Survey of Personalized News Aggregators“
• SKMurphy’s EDA Knowledge Portal Announcement
• Dorai Thodla on “Information and Intelligence“

This is a great overview by Dorai, I like his his five phase model for intelligence gathering and will address the first two–discovery and tracking–in my presentation:

There are about five stages in this process. This is a spiral model where you continuously enhance/refine every step based on what you learn from other steps.

1. Discovery – Discovering Relevant sources of Information
2. Tracking – Continuously monitoring these sources and discovering more in the process.
3. Filtering – Filtering the noise and gaining the information most relevant to your business
4. Extracting – Transforming information from free form into some kind of useful structure to distribute internally.
5. Sharing – Sharing information at different levels of granularity, refining it and deriving actionable intelligence.

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