http://intelegia.com/mediacenter/tools_for_thought Web 2.0 Tools To Master Economic Development and Competitive Intelligence Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:39:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the overwhelming amount of strategic intelligence that is available on social networks, competitive intelligence professionals must have access to a reliable tool that will gather information and organize it in a manageable format. Radian6 has announced their Engagement Console application, a social media monitoring service which tracks brand mentions across ... http://intelegia.com/mediacenter/tools_for_thought/2010/03/15/social-media-monitoring-with-radian6/ In case you have missed the news, Google introduced Google Buzz, a social networking application similar to Facebook and Twitter.  Users can post content in the form of photos, videos, hyperlinks and text on their Google Buzz accounts.  This is yet another avenue for individuals to expand on the amount ... http://intelegia.com/mediacenter/tools_for_thought/2010/03/12/searching-google-buzz-with-buzzzy/ Part of having an economic development 2.0 strategy is participating in discussion groups on social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn.  The benefits of being members of groups related to economic development are: Expanding your network beyond your region and areas of expertise Sharing your expertise with other professionals in the field Learning ... http://intelegia.com/mediacenter/tools_for_thought/2010/03/10/economic-development-groups-on-linkedin/ One of the most challenging aspects of competitive intelligence research is getting a grasp of a subject that we are unfamiliar with.  Many of us have dealt with clients who have given an online research mandate that is out of our scope of expertise however; it is matter of how ... http://intelegia.com/mediacenter/tools_for_thought/2010/03/08/competitive-intelligence-research-with-google-squared/ Having difficulties managing your time amongst the different social networks that your organization has a presence on? Below is a tutorial that my colleague, Aicha Habiby, created in PowerPoint to aid individuals in using Hootsuite. Hootsuite is an application that will allow individuals to manage multiple social network accounts via one ... http://intelegia.com/mediacenter/tools_for_thought/2010/03/05/using-hootsuite-to-manage-social-networks/ Selecting the right keywords for a search engine optimization strategy partly calls for examining websites that are related to investment attraction.  As a part of the assessment process, individuals must conduct some competitive intelligence research that does not call for an extensive web search with tools such as Google, Bing ... http://intelegia.com/mediacenter/tools_for_thought/2010/03/03/finding-keyword-intelligence-for-investment-attraction-promotion/ While searching for a future topic for Tools For Thought, we happened to stumble upon the Yahoo! News Topics page. Yahoo! News Topics provides an alternative solution to searching for news content. Rather than asking users to enter keywords in the query search box, Yahoo News Topics is a directory of subjects ... http://intelegia.com/mediacenter/tools_for_thought/2010/03/01/yahoo-news-topics-browsing-for-news/ Here is a tip for those who are still jumping around from Google to Bing to Yahoo seeking to have the best results for a keyword search. Yabigo is a "gadget" in which individuals may submit a query into a single search interface with the objective of having access results from ... http://intelegia.com/mediacenter/tools_for_thought/2010/02/26/searching-google-bing-and-yahoo-at-the-same-time/ You have decided to implement a marketing strategy for your region for investment attraction purposes.  As a part of  the strategy, you have selected to use social media marketing applications. After concluding a benchmark of sites that are using Web 2.0 tools, you have created a list of the following ... http://intelegia.com/mediacenter/tools_for_thought/2010/02/24/why-use-slideshare-as-a-part-of-your-economic-development-20-strategy/ Searching social networks has afforded online researchers to get a pulse of what individuals are doing and thinking.   An application such as Twitter allow individuals to share their thoughts / opinions, (good or bad) with followers and users of the web for research purposes. One challenge that presents itself when using ... http://intelegia.com/mediacenter/tools_for_thought/2010/02/22/gathering-twitter-intelligence-with-tiptop/