Research Skills & Strategies for Business

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Research ➡ Requires searching, finding, tracking, saving, storing, and retrieving data—even before you start making sense of it. ➡ Find it. ‣ Credible source? True? Supposed to be? ➡ Be careful on the Web ‣ Antivirus ‣ Phishing ‣ Firewall 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

Research Considerations ➡ Choose tools carefully, based on: ‣ What you want to do with the information ‣ Comfort with computers ‣ Software you’re using ‣ Computing environment (Mac, Windows, home, work, etc.) ‣ Making it work for you 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

Essentials ➡ A plan ➡ A procedural map ➡ Able to determine if source is credible ➡ Can you trust that it's true? ➡ Check your plan, map, sources, and path every so often ➡ Track sources/citations 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

What's Your Story? ➡ Comfortable with computers? The Web? ➡ Computer and Web search skills? ➡ How do you feel about directing your own education using the Web? ➡ Confident about deciding who to trust? ➡ Willing to follow a series of steps, consistently? 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

What's Your Story? ➡ Rate attention to detail 1-5, 5 is highest ➡ Learning is easier with... ➡ Work with…? ‣ Reading ‣ Audio ‣ Videos ‣ Video ‣ Audio ‣ Documents ‣ Images ‣ Webpages ‣ Demonstration ‣ Electronic books ‣ Demonstration 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

What's Your Story? ➡ How do you like to get your content? ‣ Email ‣ Website or Blogs ‣ RSS ‣ Podcasts (audio & video) ➡ What do you need / want to keep up with online? 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

Collecting Information ➡ Pick sensible formats easy to convert or repurpose ➡ Tag/label systematically and immediately ➡ Use different tools to capture and mark ‣ Screen capture tools ‣ Bookmarking tools ‣ Collection & organization tools 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

Screen Capture Tools ➡ Screenshot Pimp (Firefox add-on) ➡ Fireshot (PC only) ➡ Screengrab (Firefox add- on) ➡ Snagit (PC only) ➡ Grab (default Mac tool) 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

Bookmarking Tools ➡ delicious (social bookmarking) ➡ Read It Later (syncs across computers) ➡ Add bookmarks in your browser 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

Tools for Collecting & Organizing ➡ Zotero (individual/collaborative) ➡ ScrapBook (Firefox add-on) ➡ Evernote (individual/ collaborative) ➡ Diigo (individual/collaborative) ➡ Email ➡ Google Reader (individual/ collaborative) 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

Making Sense of What You Find ➡ Map ➡ Write ➡ Visualize Data ➡ Read ➡ Ponder ➡ Discuss in your networks 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

Mapping Tools ➡ Inspiration ➡ Webspiration ➡ MindManager ➡ OmniGraffle (Mac) ➡ Strengths and Weaknesses of Mapping Software 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

Everyday Research ➡ Collect Information ➡ Find it easily when you ‣ Readability reduce the noise need to ➡ Tag it (descriptive—what ➡ Convert and repurpose— is it, what does it work with it in the format represent, etc.) that’s best for you ➡ Where did it come from (citation) ➡ Store it or mark its place (put it away for later) 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

Research for Business ➡ Project related ➡ Marketing ➡ Sales ➡ Product innovation ➡ Purchasing ➡ Insurance ➡ Tracking your personal brand 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

Lot’s of Niche Content Social Networks Social Media Deep Web LinkedIn® Great source of content Libraries, private  Facebook All kinds of informa>on  collec>ons, corporate and  twi0er out there on: government data  Niche Networks Blogs repositories Ning groups YouTube Flickr Not indexed by standard  SlideShare search engines twi0er twi0er search twi0er trends 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

Search ➡ Search Engines. ‣ Gotta search? ‣ Use the best tool for the task. ➡ Specialized search engines ➡ When might you use: ‣ Google (http://www.google.com/) ‣ Bing (http://www.bing.com/) ‣ Wolfram Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com/) 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

Branding / Reputation Management ➡ Search regularly ‣ Google ‣ Bing ➡ Automatic searches ‣ Term based-use all ➡ Capture offenders - Google Alerts - Social Mention Alerts ‣ “print to” or “save to” pdf - twitter search ‣ screen capture ‣ Page based ➡ Ask for offending - backtweets (search tweets for links to specific url) material to be removed 12/12/2009 Research Skills & Strategies for Business www.ChaosToClarity.com

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