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A.I.M. Higher For Your Corporate and Hospital Researchers (pdf)

Mary Ellen brings her lively and practical approach to how info pros can most effectively support the research efforts within their organizations and best leverage their econtent. This webinar, sponsored by Springer, was presented on April 18, 2013.

Super Searcher Tips (pdf)

Mary Ellen presents her favorite super-searcher secrets and tips. This presentation was given at Computers in Libraries on April 8, 2013 in Washington, DC.

Searching the Social Web (pdf)

Mary Ellen shows how to get the most out of social media searching. This presentation was given at Computers in Libraries on April 7, 2013 in Washington, DC.

2011 Info-Entrepreneur Report: insights on information businesses (pdf)

Mary Ellen surveyed business owners in the Association of Independent Information Professionals about their businesses. How much do they make? How many hours do they work? What is their biggest challenge? This 60-page report provides insight into info-entrepreneurship, and offers a benchmarking tool for both new and long-time business owners.

2010/03/082010/03/08

Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Mary Ellen Bates

Alpha A-D, Commercial Intelligence

Mary Ellen Bates, president and founder of Bates Information Services is one of the nation's leading experts in customized information research (also known as information brokering) and effective, thorough, and no-nonsense training for corporate researchers and knowledge workers. She also provides detailed consulting and hands-on business coaching for professionals seeking to enter the field of information brokering.

Bates' impressive credentials include a diverse array of research commissions, ranging from assessing the outlook for the pre-fab housing industry in Europe and Japan to studying recent high-tech developments in the grocery industry, and more. She also has written or co-written six books and close to 300 by-lined articles and white papers on various aspects of research and information gathering. In addition, Ms. Bates is a skilled and lively speaker, with more than 250 speaking engagements to her credit since 1993.

In her spare time, Bates is an amateur photographer and a dedicated marathon runner. In the past 10 years, she has completed 15 marathons, and continues to hone her skills in the training and strategy work required for long-distance running.

Phi Beta Iota: MEB as some call her, is a SUPER-SEARCHER, along with Reva Bausch, now retired, perhaps the absolute best in the USA–it would be fun to see her and Arno Reuser having a duel, but more likely they would just be ga-ga with one another's skills. She pioneered cost-effective citation analysis using the DIALOG File 7 (Social Science Citation Index) and a program she personally constructed that OSS.Net, Inc. used to idnetify the top people in the world across a very wide variety of threat and policy domains. She is unique, and we are are over-joyed to know, still going strong.

See Also:

Mary Ellen Bates' Many Books at Amazon (2010 is third down)

Bates Information Services

Review: The Online Deskbook–Online Magazine?s Essential Desk Reference for Online and Internet Searchers

Review: Secrets of the Super Searchers–The Accumulated Wisdom of 23 of the World?s Top Online Searchers

2006/07/182009/07/18

Commerce Archive on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)

Commerce

2004	SE	Commerce	Bjore	Commercial Intelligence
2003	SE	Commerce	Bjore	Reinventing Commercial Intelligence
2002	US	Commerce	Klavans	Identifying Commercial Opportunities from Emerging Science
2000	US	Commerce		Technology Intelligence from Patents
2000	US	Commerce	Sullivan	Business Perspective on Essential Overseas Information
1999	FR	Commerce	Baumlin	Espionage or Business Intelligence: Nuances of Gray
1999	UK	Commerce	Collier	Overview of New Horizons in OSINT Sources, Softwares, Services
1999	US	Commerce	Miller	The Year the Information Industry Hit Bottom
1999	US	Commerce	Robinson	How Mobil Uses Open Sources & Services
1998	FR	Commerce	Baumlin	Black, White, Gray, Realities of the Investigative Marketplace
1998	US	Commerce	Boyer	Assessing US and Other Space Imaging Options for European Needs
1998	GE	Commerce	Bruckner	Information and Knowledge Management in Intelligence Situations
1998	US	Commerce	Burwell	Commercial Online Source Validation Methods
1998	UK	Commerce	Collier	The Pricing of Electronic Information
1998	US	Commerce	Dunn	Confronting the Future of the Information Industry
1998	Israel	Commerce	Feiler	Open and Personal: Economic Intelligence in the Middle East
1998	US	Commerce	Horowitz	Economic Espionage and OSINT: Legal and Security Implications
1998	US	Commerce	Stara	Valuing Competitive Intelligence
1998	US	Commerce	Yankeelov	Pushing the Assets of Time and Knowledge
1997	BE	Commerce	Borry & Sohl	Electronic Sources & Methods: A Belgian Business Perspective
1997	US	Commerce	Suggs	International Trade & Commerce Intelligence Search Strategies (Slides)
1997	US	Commerce	Suggs	International Trade & Commerce Intelligence Search Strategies (Text)
1996	US	Commerce	Bates	Recent and Emerging Trends in Information Brokering
1996	US	Commerce	Call	Realities & Myths Regarding Financial Research Using Open Sources
1996	US	Commerce	Kolb (SCIP)	Sales Pitch for the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
1996	US	Commerce	Sibbit	Emerging Business Models for Commercial Remote Sensing
1996	US	Commerce	Steele	Concise Directory of Selected International Open Sources & Services
1996	US	Commerce	Steele	Open Source Intelligence Handbook, Chapter 1, Overview
1995	US	Commerce	Herring	Business Intelligence in Japan and Sweden: Lessons for the US
1995	US	Commerce	Herring	Intelligence to Enhance American Companies' Competitiveness
1995	US	Commerce	Herring	Using the Intelligence Process to Create Competitive Global Advantage
1995	US	Commerce	Simon & Blixt	Emerging Issues in Competitive Intelligence
1994	US	Commerce	Basch	Secrets of the Super-Searchers: A Personal and Practical Perspective
1994	Switz	Commerce	Bernhardt	Tailoring Competitive Intelligence to Executive Needs
1994	UK	Commerce	Collier	Global Information Industry and a New Information Paradigm
1994	US	Commerce	Himelfarb	Introduction to Competitive and Business Intelligence
1994	US	Commerce	Kelly	ASIDIC Perspectives & Its Contributions to National Competitiveness (S)
1994	US	Commerce	Kelly	ASIDIC Perspectives & Its Contributions to National Competitiveness (T)
1994	US	Commerce	Marcinko	Association of Information and Dissemination Centers, Case Studies
1994	US	Commerce	Shaker	Beating the Competition: From Boardroom to War Room
1994	US	Commerce	Shaker & Rice	From War Room to Board Room
1994	US	Commerce	Sharp	How to Identify Changes that Threaten Your Business Activity, In Advance
1994	US	Commerce	Stanat	The Power of Global Business Information
1994	US	Commerce	Steele	Germany: ACCESS: Theory and Practice of Competitor Intelligence
1994?	US	Commerce	Steele	ASIDIC: Intelligence Community as a New Market
1993	US	Commerce	Caldwell	International Investigative Market (Slides)
1993	US	Commerce	Caldwell	International Investigative Market (Text)
1993	SE	Commerce	Dedijer	Europe's To BI or not to BE: Inventory of a New Business Innovation
1993	US	Commerce	Elias	An Overview of the Information Industry in 1993
1993	AU	Commerce	Fraumann	Business is War
1993	US	Commerce	Herring	Business Intelligence: Some Have It, Some Don't–How They Do It
1993	US	Commerce	Himelfarb	Intelligence Requirements for Executives
1993	US	Commerce	Monaco & Gerliczy	Economic Intelligence and Open Source Information
1993	JP	Commerce	Shima	Overview of Japanese Media and Information Systems
1993	US	Commerce	Splitt	The U.S. Information Industry: Changing the 21st Century
1993	US	Commerce	Steele	Corporate Role in National Competitiveness
1993	US	Commerce	Steele	The Intelligence Community as a New Market
1992	US	Commerce	Hlava	Information Industry Corporations (Partial Listing)
1992	US	Commerce	Hlava	Selected Professional and Trade Associations in Information
1992	US	Commerce	Hlava	The Information Industry: Impact of Globalization
1992	US	Commerce	Meyer	Business Intelligence at the Cutting Edge
1992	US	Commerce	Nobel	From A to Z: What We've Done with Open Sources
1992	US	Commerce	Shaker & Kardulias	Intelligence Support to U.S. Business
1992	US	Commerce	Williams	OSINT to Create Intelligence in a Commercial Environment

2000/04/082009/11/01

Review: The Online Deskbook–Online Magazine?s Essential Desk Reference for Online and Internet Searchers

5 Star, Intelligence (Commercial)

As Good As It Gets,

April 8, 2000

Mary Ellen Bates

Mary Ellen, or MEB, is the online broker I turn to when I can't solve something in-house. Her book is a working desktop reference, covering the main commercial online services as well as major Internet channels.

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Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Mary Ellen Bates

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Review: The Online Deskbook–Online Magazine?s Essential Desk Reference for Online and Internet Searchers