Category Archives: bizologie Favorite Tools

bizologie Favorite Tools: Speek

We love the new conference call tool from Speek. Speek lets you customize a link for your conference call so that no one needs a pin code or special number. You can also easily see who has joined the call,

The Information Institute Presents: 21st Century Business Research Tactics And Sources

The Information Institute Presents: 21st Century Business Research Tactics And Sources

If you’ll be in the Austin area this January and would like a crash course in competitive intelligence, check out this new course presented by The Information Institute from the University of Texas School of Information. The class is called

bizologie Favorite Tools: 10 Minute Mail

Don’t you hate when you have to register your email to download that perfect report or gain access to an article? Check out 10 Minute Mail. This free service will give you a temporary email for just such an occasion.

Common Craft Explains: The U.S. Election Process

We love Common Craft and their great, simple explanations of complicated subjects. Today on Election Eve, we thought you might like a brief reminder of how our presidential election process works. You can check out other Common Craft explanations (e.g.

Form D Free For All

Form D Free For All

Do business research for any length of time and you’ll likely be called upon to locate Form Ds. And as we bizologists like to say, why not find them for free? First of all, what is a Form D? Our

Free Market Intelligence for Franchise-Heavy Industries

The other day, a client came to me with an interesting request: How many independent pizza restaurants operate in the US.  After consulting the usual library resources and pizza industry associations, I was still unable to fully answer this question

Follow That Dollar!

Follow That Dollar!

I’ll file this post under “Am I The Last To Know About This?”.  Today I got a dollar stamped with “Track me at www.wheresgeorge.com“. How could I resist? I went to the site and was greeted with a button saying

Free Email Address Verification

Quick Email Address Verification: The other day, I found myself in an interesting situation.  I wanted to get in touch with the VP of marketing of a local company and all I knew was that their company email addresses ended

bizologie Favorite Tools: Bliss Control

So, so simple but so, so useful. Bliss Control helps you easily change settings on your social networks. Need to change 3rd Party Settings on your Facebook Account? Or recover your password for Pinterest? It’s always a pain to remember

Knoema: Build & Explore Datasets

Knoema: Build & Explore Datasets

Earlier this month we had the opportunity to attend the “60 Sites in 60 Minutes” presentation at the Special Libraries Association’s Annual Conference in Chicago. One site we loved was Knoema. Knoema lets you explore, build and share datasets. They