ROI JV expert staff apply our
tools, process, and experience to:
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Subject-by-subject searches to expand a corporate or academic library's
holdings, build a "bookweb", or populate a data warehouse
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Specific subject surveys and questions relating to specific practices,
tools, or trends for benchmarking, competitive intelligence, journalistic
background, or information brokering
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Research Tracking on topics keyed to current government R&D
initiatives and solicitations, of interest to proposers, journalists, corporate
technology transfer specialists, and research monitors and managers.
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Regular monitoring/updates
Our "power tool" approach allows us to:
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collect 1000s of URLs from search engines in minutes, typically 5000+
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in a few hours, "triage" to scope and filter the collection, typically
2000 URLs
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in a day, qualify and select "core" URLs (1000) by popularity, authority,
depth of content, diversity, and other pre-decided criteria
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in days, define a rating or classification scheme, browse, rate or classify
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generate HTML reports posted on our website for delivery to you
ROI information products take up where current search engines and crafted
guides leave off, providing edited lists, annotated reports, and classified
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Training (2-day courses -- or personal tours)
Example course: Due Diligence using the Web:
identifying competitive and complementary technologies; searching and qualifying
companies, products, and authorities; research tracking process; displaying
coverage and decision criteria.
Website Competitive Presentations
Using twURL to provide an annotated table of contents
of your webpages and links to related pages (competitors, reviews, motivators).
Or track your competitors, suppliers, or users web content to freshen and
maintain your website.
Developing a more productive environment for mining or farming the Web
Apply our evolving toolset, methodology, and web research experience
to establish or improve your in-house web environment. We support the tenets
of Web Farming, with long-term
and systematic collection, organization, and analysis of business-critical
web content.
Subscriptions and retrainer information products
Collections provided at regular intervals on topics of current
interest
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Topics are available in a range
of depths and presentation styles, e.g.
Web Reflector -
short profiles of current interest topics "as the Web sees them"
Webliographies -
typically, 500-1500 URLs with multiple profiles and annotations, ratings,
and classifications using twURL and other tools
Web Pools -
all the URLs we can find on related subjects and links among them,
but not yet filtered or qualified
Examples are available on our "twURLed
World" website. Our increasing inventory of subjects we can draw upon
include:
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Software Engineering (e.g., reuse, TQM, Y2k)
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Computer security and safety (products, companies, mechanisms, standards)
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Military and civilian concerns over Information Warfare and Nuclear Lab
espionage
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Information visualization, smart searching, and related products
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Technology-culture issues and trends, e.g. the domain naming, ubiquitous
computing, (de)professionalization of computing
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Web farming, competitive intelligence, information brokering, and supporting
web utilities
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