Monthly Archives: July 2007

43 Things To Do In Your Life

July 02, 2007

43 Things To Do In Your Life
http://www.43things.com/

People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. But most of us never get around to making a list. 43 Things is great for that! Make a list on 43 Things and see what changes happen in your life. Best of all it’s a way of connecting with other enthusiasts interested in everything from watching a space shuttle launch to grow my own vegetables. So the next time someone asks you, “what do you do?” you can answer with confidence, “I am doing 43 things!”. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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Market Intelligence Resources 2007

July 02, 2007

Market Intelligence Resources 2007
http://www.MarketIntelligenceResources.com

This 82 page Professional Internet MiniGuide by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. brings you the latest links and sources for market intelligence. WikiPedia defines Market Intelligence as: “Market Intelligence (MI) – information relevant to a company’s markets, gathered and analyzed specifically for the purpose of accurate and confident decision making in determining market opportunity, market penetration strategy, and new market development metrics.” This Market Intelligence Resources 2007 Professional Internet MiniGuidehas all its links and sources listed alphabetically and broken down into the following categories that address the many facets of market intelligence for today’s business owner and/or entrepreneur: a) Introduction, b) Subject Tracer Information Blogs, c) Author Information and Sources, d) Research, e) Reference Sources, f) Selected Search Engines, g) Selected Directories & Databases, h) Competitive Intelligence Resources, i) Business Intelligence Resources. and j) Research Tools. A must TOOL for anyone involved in marketing in todays business!

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LanguageTool – Open Source Language Checker

July 02, 2007

LanguageTool – Open Source Language Checker
http://www.languagetool.org/

An Open Source language checker for English, German, Polish, Dutch, and other languages. This is a rule-based language checker that will find errors for which a rule is defined in its XML configuration files. Rules for more complicated errors can be written in Java. You can think of LanguageTool as a tool to detect errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect, e.g. mixing up there/their, no/now etc. It can also detect some grammar mistakes. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

July 02, 2007

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/reep/

The Review of Environmental Economics and Policy seeks to fill the gap between traditional academic journals and the general interest press by providing a widely accessible yet scholarly source for the latest thinking on environmental economics and related policy. The Review publishes symposia, articles, and regular features thatcontribute to one or more of the following goals:

* to identify and synthesize lessons learned from recent and ongoing environmental economics research;
* to provide economic analysis of environmental policy issues;
* to promote the sharing of ideas and perspectives among the various sub-fields of environmental economics;
* to strengthen the linkages between environmental economics research and environmental policy;
* to encourage communication and connections between academics and the wider policy community;
* to offer suggestions for future research;
* to provide insights and readings for use in the classroom;
* to address issues of interest to the environmental economics profession.

Articles published by the Review are generally commissioned by the Editors, but are also subject to anonymous peer review.

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wis.dm – Question Everything

July 02, 2007

wis.dm – Question Everything
http://wis.dm/

wis.dm is an online community where you ask questions to the wis.dm crowd and get back useful answers. It is for people who are looking for something more meaningful than they get from “popularity” based social networks. It’s a place to engage around asking, sharing, growing and learning. It’s where you get to question everything. wis.dm is inherently simple and fun to use. The gateway to wis.dm is a simple yes/no question which prompts wide interaction. Their members are curious and excited by challenging questions and interesting discourse. You get the opportunity to meet and learn from those wis.dm members who share your interest in specific topics. When you ask a question, you get an immediate quantitative response – a quick sense of the balance-of-opinion. While questions and discussions on wis.dm tend towards a more quality-orientated, progressive dialog, most members don’t take themselves too seriously. Their vision for wis.dm has always been based around a balance of utility and fun, and this is something they are very keen to support as the wis.dm community grows. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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43 Things To Do In Your Life

July 02, 2007

43 Things To Do In Your Life
http://www.43things.com/

People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. But most of us never get around to making a list. 43 Things is great for that! Make a list on 43 Things and see what changes happen in your life. Best of all it’s a way of connecting with other enthusiasts interested in everything from watching a space shuttle launch to grow my own vegetables. So the next time someone asks you, “what do you do?” you can answer with confidence, “I am doing 43 things!”. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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