The Rivers of Information process is the streamlining of information into one’s knowledge growth. This can be through any informational source including digital and social sources. Here are a number of tools, many of them inexpensive or free, you can use to create your own rivers. For information on developing a Rivers of Information your organization please visit: fpov.com/rivers-of-information/

1. Rivers of
Information
Tools

2. RIVERS OF INFORMATION
What is Rivers of Information?
The Rivers of Information process is the streamlining of information into one’s
knowledge growth. This can be through any informational source including digital and
social sources. This process costs virtually nothing beyond the time invested in
consuming the content, yet very few people make the effort to refine it into an
effective art. Imagine if you spent 30 minutes a day on your Rivers:
30 Min/Day = 210 Min/Week = 840 Min/Month = 10,920
Min/Year
That’s 182 Hours of Active Learning that You’ve Added Into Your
Year
How Much Can You Learn in 182 Hours?

3. RIVERS OF INFORMATION
We have a six step process to help you institutionalize the building of Rivers of
Information into your organization. The essential process is:
• Identify useful sources of information
• Implement technology tools to aggregate this information
• Develop processes for harnessing this information
• Ensure accountability methods are in place for team members to grow their
own rivers
• Provide training to team members on growing rivers
• Develop processes for sharing new information when it is discovered
This presentation offers tools you can use to create a robust rivers. Many of
these tools are inexpensive, or even free.

4. FUTURE POINT OF VIEW
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FPOV has developed a dashboard as an easy to read, single access point for real-time streams of
relevant information. Stay on top of all industry-related news, trends and research. The
dashboard scours the internet and pulls in relevant information based on your keywords.
Please contact us (info@fpov.com) if you are interested in setting up your very own custom
dashboard. (fpov.com/education-products/)

5. FEEDLY
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A single place for all the knowledge you rely on to think, learn, and keep ahead. Arrange
your content in easy to read collections. Search, save for later, and share. Use
knowledge boards to work with your teammates to curate, comment, and prioritize the
best stories about specific topics and ideas. (feedly.com)

6. NETVIBES
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An award-winning, free personal dashboard and reader used by millions. Netvibes is
100% customizable, no two dashboards are alike. Each dashboard is tailored to the
specific needs of the client or industry. Can be synced across your desktop,
mobile and tablet. (netvibes.com)

7. FEVER
Fever takes the temperature of your slice of the web and shows you what's hot. Fever
asks you to make a simple distinction between essential and supplemental feeds.
Essential, must-read feeds are Kindling. Supplemental, low signal-to-noise feeds are
Sparks. Sparks ignite Kindling raising the temperature of items and links that should
not be missed. (feedafever.com)
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8. NEWSBLUR
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NewsBlur is a personal news reader. iOS, Android, and web apps available. An easy
and organized way to read the news. By using NewsBlur's training filters, and
teaching it your preferences, you can hide stories you don't want to see and highlight
the stories that interest you. Sharing stories with friends or the public available on
your “blurblog.” (newsblur.com)

9. LINKEDIN PULSE
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A professional news digest powered by LinkedIn. iOS and Android apps available. See
what your network and colleagues are reading, get the latest trending news in your
industry, and be notified when your connections make the news. Pulse gets even smarter
as you go, learning what you’re interested in from every topic, person, and company you
follow, so you get personalized recommendations (linkedin.com/pulse)

10. ALLTOP
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Alltop imports the stories of the top news websites and blogs for any given topic
and displays the headlines of the most recent stories. You can see a portion of the
story to decide if you would like to read it. MyAlltop enables you to create a
“personal, online magazine rack” of your favorite websites and blogs. You can
create a personal collection from over 32,000 information sources and share your
collection with others. (alltop.com)

11. POCKET
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Pocket, the premier Save for Later app, lets you consume and share content
whenever you want, wherever you want, even without an internet connection. Once
saved to Pocket, the list of content is visible on any device — phone, tablet
or computer. (getpocket.com)

12. IFTTT
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IFTTT gives you creative control over the products and apps you love. IFTTT is
changing the way people interact with technology by helping them get the most out
of their favorite products and services. Create simple connections between the
products you use every day. (ifttt.com)

13. SMARTBRIEF
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SmartBrief is a leading digital B2B media company. By combining technology and
editorial expertise, SmartBrief delivers each day's most relevant industry news to
more than 5.8 million senior executives, thought leaders and informed industry
professionals. SmartBrief publishes email newsletters in partnerships with more
than 180 premier trade associations, professional societies, nonprofits and
corporate entities. (smartbrief.com)

14. SCOOP.IT
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Develop your unique perspective on topics that matter through idea discovery, content
curation, and social sharing. Scoop.it helps millions of professionals as well as thousands
of businesses and enterprise clients discover, curate and publish great content to
increase their visibility online. (scoop.it)

15. POPURLS
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Popurls encapsulates headlines from the most popular websites on a single page
and is also known as the mother of all news aggregators. Invented by
Thomas Marban. (popurls.com)

16. OLDREADER
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The ultimate social RSS reader for The Open Web. The Old Reader allows you
to subscribe to your favorite sites so you can stay in the know. Send links to
your favorite social networks, or save them to Pocket, Instapaper or
Readability. (theoldreader.com)

17. PINTEREST
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Pinterest is the visual bookmarking tool that helps you discover and save creative ideas.
First launched in 2010, Pinterest's mission is to help people discover things they love,
and inspire them to do those things in their daily lives. Use Pinterest to make meals, plan
travel, do home improvement projects and more. (pinterest.com)

18. TWITTER LISTS
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A list is a curated group of Twitter users. You can create your own lists or subscribe to
lists created by others. Viewing a list timeline will show you a stream of Tweets from only
the users on that list. (support.twitter.com/articles/76460?lang=en)

19. TWEETDECK
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The most powerful Twitter tool for real-time tracking, organizing, and engagement.
Organize and build custom timelines, keep track of lists, searches, activity and more—
all in one interface. Create searches to track topics, events and hashtags. Manage
multiple accounts. (tweetdeck.twitter.com)

20. HOOTSUITE
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Hootsuite is a social relationship platform for businesses and organizations to collaboratively
execute campaigns across social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+
Pages from one secure, web-based dashboard. Advanced functionality includes tools for
audience engagement, team collaboration, account security and comprehensive analytics
for end-to-end measurement and reporting. (hootsuite.com)

21. TWEETCASTER
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TweetCaster is the #1 Twitter app for iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android with a cutting edge
design, loads of features, and remarkable speed and responsiveness. TweetCaster has a
gorgeous look with an intuitive interface that makes it super easy to use while packing in
tons of features. Optimized for both phones and tablets, TweetCaster has been highly
praised by users and reviewers. (tweetcaster.com)

22. ORACLE INVOLVER
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Involver, now part of Oracle Social Relationship Management (SRM), is the industry's first
one-stop cloud platform for social media listening, monitoring, engagement, and
analytics. (oracle.com/us/solutions/social/involver/index.html#learn)

23. SPROUT SOCIAL
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Sprout Social is a social media management and engagement platform for business.
Founded in 2010, Sprout Social is built on the idea that the world is better when businesses
and customers communicate freely. Sprout Social is known for its intuitive, easy-to-use web
and mobile platform. (sproutsocial.com)

24. SPREDFAST
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Spredfast is the world’s most powerful, open social software platform. They are a global
team of subject matter experts across social committed to making every customer
successful in social marketing. Their smart social technology processes 650 million pieces of
social content per day, giving brands the visibility, context, and tools that need to make
every consumer touch point better. (spredfast.com)

25. GROUPTWEET
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GroupTweet allows you to add multiple contributors to a single Twitter account. GroupTweet
allows any number of contributors to tweet from your company, school, team, or group
Twitter account using any Twitter app they prefer. (grouptweet.com)

26. FLIPBOARD
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Flipboard is your social magazine. Flipboard collects quality content on your favorite topics
from the world’s most trusted sources, and presents them in a beautiful magazine format.
To begin, pick a few interests and tap any of the tiles to begin flipping through your
personal magazine. (flipboard.com)

27. INSTAPAPER
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Instapaper is a simple tool for saving web pages to read later on your iPhone, iPad,
Android, computer, or Kindle. Save all of the interesting articles, videos, cooking
recipes, song lyrics, or whatever else you come across while browsing. With
one click, Instapaper lets you save, read, and manage the things you find on
the Internet. (instapaper.com)

28. SOCIAL MENTION
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Social Mention is a social media search and analysis platform that aggregates user
generated content from across the universe into a single stream of information. It
allows you to easily track and measure what people are saying about you, your
company, a new product, or any topic across the web's social media landscape
in real-time. (socialmention.com)

29. GOOGLE ALERTS
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Monitor the web for interesting new content. Google Alerts are email updates of the latest
relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your queries. (google.com/alerts)

30. TRAACKR
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Traackr is the global and ultimate Influencer Management Platform. Everything you need
to discover your influencers, manage key relationships, and measure their impact on
your business. (traackr.com/data-services)

31. ICEROCKET
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IceRocket is an internet search engine providing real-time search for blogs, tweets, news
and images. IceRocket was acquired by Meltwater Group in 2011. (icerocket.com)

32. STUMBLEUPON
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StumbleUpon is the easiest way to discover new and interesting things from
across the Web. More than 30 million people turn to StumbleUpon to be
informed, entertained and surprised by content and information recommended
just for them. (stumbleupon.com)

33. DIGG
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Digg is the best place to find the most interesting and talked about stories on the Internet
right now. Re-founded in 2012, Digg now provides the most relevant and compelling
content to millions of users a month. (digg.com)

34. FACTIVA
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Factiva is the world’s leading source of premium news, data and insight, helping today’s
professionals make better business decisions faster through its powerful search, alerting
and research capabilities. With access to thousands of premium news and information
sources on more than 22 million public and private companies, Factiva cuts through the
noise to surface business-critical information. (dowjones.com/products/product-factiva)

35. MERGENT ONLINE
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Mergent Online provides Internet-based access to the most detailed, accurate and
comprehensive global company database available, with the latest in features and
functions. Mergent Online's basic subscription includes U.S. Company Data and/or
International Company Data. (mergentonline.com/noticescm.php?pagetype=about)

36. BIZMINER
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BizMiner produces the most granular industry statistical reports in the market. They offer
industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and industry
market trends on thousands more. Their market analysis reports are available at the
national and local levels down to the zip code. (bizminer.com)

37. S&PS INDUSTRY SURVEYS
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Industry Surveys from S&P Global Market Intelligence provides in-depth, independent
research on industries, sub-industries, and companies. Industry Surveys are written by
their team of respected equity analysts for clients to get up to speed on an industry's
profile, trends, key ratios and statistics, and how the industry operates. The reports also
explain how to analyze a company within that space. (spcapitaliq.com/our-
capabilities/our-capabilities.html?product=industry-surveys#)

38. STATISTA
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Statista is one of the leading statistics companies on the internet. With a team of
over 200 statisticians, database experts, analysts, and editors, Statista provides
users with an innovative and intuitive tool for researching quantitative data,
statistics and related information. The product is aimed at business clients and
academics of any size. (statista.com)

39. IBISWORLD
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IBISWorld is one of the world's leading publishers of business intelligence, specializing in
Industry research and Procurement research. IBISWorld research provides your
organization with valuable industry market research and procurement research, so you
can make better business decisions, faster. IBISWorld's unrivaled range of business
intelligence is available online wherever and whenever you need it. (ibisworld.com)

40. FIRST RESEARCH
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First Research is the leading provider of market analysis tools that help you perform
faster and smarter, open doors and close more deals. First Research offers customers
industry research reports covering over 1000 industry segments. Used by thousands of
sales and marketing professionals, First Research can benefit any organization that has
prospects in multiple industries. (firstresearch.com)

41. QUORA
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Quora is a place where you can ask questions you care about and get answers that are
amazing. Quora’s mission is to share and grow the world’s knowledge.The heart of Quora
is questions — questions that affect the world, questions that explain recent world
events, questions that guide important life decisions, and questions that provide insights
into why other people think differently. (quora.com)

42. QUANTCAST
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Quantcast is a digital advertising company specialized in audience measurement and
real-time advertising. Quantcast is dedicated to making display as relevant and effective
as search, and currently delivers outstanding advertising campaigns for the world’s
leading’s advertisers and publishers and brings accurate audience measurement to over
100 million web destinations. (quantcast.com)

43. SIMILARSITES
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SimilarSites.com is an innovative Recommendation Engine for websites that scours the
Internet to deliver the most similar websites according to a specific website or topic of
your choice. Find the most relevant similar sites based on related content, website
structure, link analysis algorithms, detailed user surfing behaviors and a large community
of user rankings. (similarsites.com)

44. BOARDREADER
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Boardreader is search engine for Forums and Boards. Boardreader is focused on creating
the largest repository of searchable information for its users. Boardreader uses
proprietary software that allows users to search multiple message boards simultaneously,
allowing users to share information in a truly global sense. (boardreader.com)

45. YAHOO ANSWERS
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Yahoo Answers is an online community where people ask each other questions on
any topic, and get answers by sharing facts, opinions, and personal experiences.
Express yourself in Yahoo Answers through multimedia uploads, enhanced
navigation, and a personalized homepage experience with easy access to your points
and levels display. (answers.yahoo.com)

46. WIKIANSWERS
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Wikianswers is a wiki-based question and answer site. Whether you have a question or
love sharing your knowledge, Wikianswers is the place for you. Anyone can ask, answer
or edit questions, building a global Q&A database, covering all topics. Wikianswers
editions exists in more than 60 languages. (answers.wikia.com/wiki/Wikianswers)

47. EVERNOTE
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Evernote builds apps and products that are defining the way individuals and teams work
today. As one workspace that lives across your phone, tablet, and computer, Evernote is
the place you write free from distraction, collect information, find what you need, and
present your ideas to the world. (evernote.com/?var=1)

48. DELICIOUS
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Delicious is a free, easy tool to save, organize, and discover the links you find interesting
on the web. Founded in 2003, Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! and rebuilt by AVOS.
Helmed by YouTube founders Chad Hurley & Steve Chen, the site was relaunched in 2011
with a new focus on curation and discovery. (delicious.com)

49. STORIFY
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Storify is the easiest way to find, collect, and share what people are saying all over the
web. Storify helps make sense of what people post on social media. Storify's users curate
the most important voices and turn them into stories. (storify.com)

50. PEARLTREES
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Pearltrees is a place to organize all your interests. This free service lets you organize,
explore and share everything you like. Save web pages, files, photos or notes and
organize them naturally. (pearltrees.com)

51. LIST.LY
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Listly is lists made easy + social + fun! Create lists of the things you want and share
them with the people you love. Find interesting lists on a variety of topics ranging from
Entertainment to Sports to Travel to Fashion and more. (list.ly)

52. ONENOTE
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Microsoft OneNote is the digital note-taking app for your devices. Get the OneNote app
for free on your tablet, phone, and computer, so you can capture your ideas and to-do
lists in one place wherever you are. (onenote.com)

53. XMARKS
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Xmarks, formerly known as Foxmarks, is the #1 Bookmarking add-on for Firefox,
IE, Safari and Chrome, with over twenty million downloads and counting.
Seamlessly synchronize bookmarks and tabs across all your computers and
mobile devices. (xmarks.com)

54. .
The Future Point of View Technology Mastery Institute is dedicated to educating leaders
on the latest in technology: digital marketing, enterprise architecture, governance,
leadership, cybersecurity and much more. We have a variety of public and private courses
that develop leaders’ and organizations’ knowledge surrounding technology. For more
information about the Technology Mastery Institute and our current schedule, please visit
fpov.com/education.
Want to learn more about how you can build your own Rivers of Information?
We’ve established a process that will help you develop a rivers that will benefit both yourself
and your entire organization.
For more information please visit FPOV.com or email info@fpov.com