Wellington City Libraries’ Business Blog

This press release by New York company AMI Partners looks at the rapidly increasing participation of small businesses in social networking as a way of advertising and promoting themselves.  Social networking is being seen as an expedient way, in the current downturn, of keeping in touch with current clients and finding new ones.

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The Financial Times have recently entered the world of podcasting.  By subscribing to the podcasts via Itunes you will be able to listen to recent programmes on a variety of subjects such as digital business, long-term investing, or look through the archives  of the FT Money Show, and choose a programme.

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This is the first such publication by the U.S. News & World Report and was drawn from material published by THE-QS World Unversity Rankings which is published in conjunction with QS Quacquarelli Symonds.  It includes Australasian and New Zealand universities as well, and also ranks by subject.  
Thanks to Resourceshelf

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This is Ofcom’s (British Office of Communications) international communications report.  Although the data is restricted to mainly the United Kingdom, France, USA, Japan, Italy, Germany and Canada, it also profiles some of the larger emerging economies, and its findings are probably of interest to us in New Zealand.  The report (available fulltext in pdf format)  covers [...]

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Biznar (still in beta form) is a free federated search portal for business researchers (searches over a variety of sources including blogs, wikis, mainstream searches  and deep web sources).  It looks very promising.

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This  is a useful reference page which can be found on the U.K. government’s BusinessLink website.  It deals with all aspects of CRM (customer relationship management)
Thanks to Intute

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This very recent report entitled Online communities and their impact on business: ignore at your peril by Rubicon Consulting came out of a survey they undertook to see how people in the U.S. used the web.   The major implication for companies was the need to understand the role the web played in their industry.
Thanks to Resourceshelf

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This seminar is part of our Career Checkpoint series.  Come and join us at midday on 16th October, 2008 noon to 1pm on the ground floor of Wellington City Libraries, 65 Victoria Street.  Roger Tweedy the Chair of the Work and Age Trust will be one of the speakers.  He has helped older workers rethink their [...]

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MSE360 Search is a lovely new search engine.  Very clean lines, two boxes, one where you enter your query and the other a drop down menu for choosing country.  The results are displayed very clearly in four different categories, images, web results, wikipedia results and blog results.  View the entire list by clicking on next set [...]

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An old favourite when it was in hard copy, Kellysearch is now online.  Although U.K. based  and defaulting to the United Kingdom, this business-to-business search facility allows you to search internationally as well through its advanced search function.
Worth a look
Thanks to Karen Blakeman

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