InfoTools: Beyond SearchDorai Thodla

An Exercise In Collective Intelligence

About InformationWhat are your information needs?What are your problems with information?What tools do you currently use to handle information?

What Is Information? What Is Knowledge?A mental math problem

Who Questions?Who needs information in your organization?

What Questions?What Information Do You Need?

Why QuestionsWhy do you need this information?Recursive : Why, Why, Why?

Where QuestionsWhere do you get your information from?Where do you find these sources?

How QuestionsHow do you get information?How do you use it?How much do you lose?

When QuestionWhen Do You Need Information?When do you use it?On-demand vs. Collect in anticipation?

Information and IntelligenceIndustry IntelligenceMarketing IntelligenceSales IntelligenceProduct IntelligenceTechnology IntelligenceInformation Intelligence

Industry IntelligenceWhere is your industry going (trends)?What are others doing in the industry?What are some possible disruptions you can cause?

Marketing IntelligenceWho are your customers?How do you reach them? What else do they buy? Who else do they buy from?

Sales IntelligencePartners and Channels, Leads, Conversion Rates

Product IntelligenceDelivery ModelsBusiness Models, Platforms vs. Apps

Technology IntelligenceIdentifying and Leveraging TrendsPossible InnovationsPotential DisruptionsGleaning Opportunities

Information to Intelligence

DiscoveryDiscover new informationDiscover new sources of information Information about Information

TrackingTrack the sources for new and updated information examples: alerts, feed readers, page trackers, trend trackers

FilteringSeparate Signal from Noise. Filter without loss

ExtractionExtract useful information from textEntitiesRelationshipsTrends

Refine and ShareRefine Information by Collaborative Editing, Tagging, Annotations. Identify useful actionable intelligence and share within your Organization, Customers and Industry

Free ToolsBlogs (Discovery, Information, Social)Search - Discovery, InformationFeeds – Discovery, Information, Limited FilteringPortals – Discovery, InformationIndustry eZines - Discovery, InformationNewsgroups/Discussion Groups/Forums – Discovery, InformationTwitter – Discovery, Information, Real-timeLinkedIn – Discovery, Extraction, Information, ShareNing– Discovery, Sharing, Information Google Alerts, InfoMinder, InfoStreams – Discovery, InformationCompete – Filtering, InformationIndeed (Jobs and Job Trends) – Discovery, Information, ExtractionOpen Calais – ExtractionAlltop - Information

CommercialCompeteHoovers HubSpotInfoPortalZoomInfo…

Do-It-YourselfTag CloudsMashupsCustom Search Contextual SemanticVerticalOpen Calais Semantic Wikis