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IT News From the Net
http://news.dci.com
This Web site offers advice and
news for corporate information technology
officers. A recent article in the eBusiness News
section was titled “Getting Venture Capital for
Your Internet Start-Up.” The site provides links
to other e-business sites (see the five listed
below).
Consult the Consultants
www.bcg.com
The Boston Consulting Group
offers articles written by IT professionals on its
staff. Users can search archived titles in the BCG
Publications section by choosing “e-commerce” from
the “browse by” pull-down menu. Titles include
“How the Internet Can Boost Your Brand,” “Arming
for E-Combat in Asia Pacific: The New Rules of
Engagement,” and “Organizing for E-Commerce.”
A Virtual Tutor
www.website101.com
This site calls itself the
“small business Internet tutorial for e-commerce
entrepreneurs” and features virtual courses
delivered to your e-mail. Course material includes
advice and tips for getting a small business
online. Also, Dr. Ebiz, an e-zine linked to this
site, offers its own advice. A current issue
states “paying for directory and search engine
listings makes good sense.” Free e-mail
subscriptions for Dr. Ebiz are available.
E-Commerce Law
www.lexmercatoria.org
Since the Internet emerged as
one of the major players in the information game,
the legal profession has been formulating and
revising rules and regulations on online
information. Lex Mercatoria, the “international
trade and commercial law monitor,” includes
documents on Web regulation in a section of the
company’s site called Electronic Commerce. Among
the topics found here are digital signatures and
privacy.
Let’s Talk E-Commerce
www.gbd.org
This site is a “worldwide,
CEO-driven effort to develop policies that promote
global electronic commerce.” Progress reports from
working groups of the Global Business Dialogue on
Electronic Commerce appear here as well as related
archived news articles on consumer confidence,
cyber security, digital bridges, e-government,
Internet payments and taxation.
E-Business
Resources
www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business
Technical publisher Ziff Davis’
site boasts enough information and resources to
make it a good first stop for any e-business
research. It provides sections on best practices,
news, opinions and reviews and links to e-commerce
case studies and white papers. An e-commerce
newsletter also is offered free to users via
e-mail.
Laugh All the Way to the (Career) Bank
www.careerbank.com
Accounting and finance
professionals—interested either in switching
employers or in just seeing what else is out
there—will find this job site useful. Along with
the option to search by job, company or state, it
offers users articles and news to help them make
sound business decisions as well as keep abreast
of trends in the accounting profession.
Lawyers Share Their Wealth—of Information
www.scrogginlaw.com
Scroggin & Associates, a
law firm in Roswell, Georgia, wants users’
feedback on a new free service for estate
planners, their clients and other interested
parties. The firm will e-mail information and
articles they have written for publication free on
request. Among the titles are “Estate
Planning—Time for a Review,” “Overlooked Traps and
Opportunities in Estate Planning” and “The Family
Incentive Trust.”
Financial Folly
www.fool.com
Brothers David and Tom Gardner
called their site the Motley Fool because, in
Elizabethan drama, the court jester, or “fool,”
was the only person who could tell a king or queen
the truth and not fear beheading. They say, “We’re
dedicated to educating, amusing and enriching
individuals in search of the [financial] truth.”
Features include an interactive finance quiz,
investment news, stock quotes and research, as
well as discussion boards and a section on
investment strategies.
Information for Small Businesses
www.bizmove.com
The Small Business Knowledge
Base offers a free newsletter with tips and
techniques for your company. In addition, the site
provides articles, answers to frequently asked
questions and links to other sites for such topics
as marketing, online business management and small
business finance. There also is a section with
numerous links to free catalogs, magazines and
software packages.
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