Finding the A-Ha! Moments in Search - Mary Ellen Bates
September 19th, 2005
+ Brainstorm for alternative terms and definitions
+ Sponsored links may provide ideas to gather data
+ Ready Reference Shelf
+ Use Wikipedia and How Stuff Works.com
+ maybe get leads to associations
+ Last, do a web search
+ Run News searches
+ Use taggings and folksonomies to find information
+ Blog searching can be useful - information on upcoming conferences - looked through the program and contacted people who will be speaking at the conference
+ Fooiund a mention of a EU study o nhow to regulate VOIP
+ use the tools that tap into the the people who are talking about this narrow type content.
+ Patent searching can be useful
+ Value added service - spent most of time on the web but not searching the web.
Lessons Learned
+ Stay focused but keep your peripheral vision on.
+ Use Firefox
+ Use new media technologies to monitor news and discussions (Social Bookmarking services).
Tips
+ Stay time going random
+ Set timer for 15 minutes