Our December 2009 issue of The Information Advisor will provide an indepth article on sources and strategies for locating international industry information. On rare occasions, we make one of our articles available to non-subscribers, and we are doing so here: it’s a 4 page PDF that identifies and describes databases from Dialog and standalone online services, international agencies like the UN, OECD, and the World Bank, search strategies and tips when you need to unearth information on industries around the globe.

You can link and download the copy free here

Enjoy!

I’m running a very short survey on paying for online news via a Twitter survey app–you can take it here:

http://twtpoll.com/693nl6

This was a very interesting piece by management guru Gary Hamel published in the Wall Street Journal on how the values and expectations of what he calls the “Facebook Generation” are going to rub up against the traditional ways of doing things in Fortune 500 firms.

Well worth reading, and ties in closely to the new Enterprise 2.0 supplement that I edit and that Information Today has just launched for readers of The Information Advisor.

The long awaited regulations from the SEC outlining which firms must file with XBRL tags (generally the largest 500 that follow GAAP) and when (end of 2nd quarter)  have just been published by the SEC. You can link to the full report in PDF here, but the relevant information begin on page 39.

The surprise is that the final decision here was to exempt firms from having to tag their narratives: eg the management discussions, executive compensation etc. From a researcher’s standpoint, that’s too bad, as this means less potential for precision searching. However the SEC says it may revisit this, and/or make this kind of tagging “optional”. We’re doing a full report on sources for searching both the EDGAR and XBRL tagged filings in the March and April issues of The Information Advisor.