Welcome everyone to this great new forum, I'd be interested to know who else is out there, this forum will be educational but also a chance for us to share and learn.

Where are you going for your news, do you value the online publications or is it the nationals that carry the weight ?

I'd second Net Imperative - not always the most cutting edge news (it's hard to fill three channels each day with UK Internet news) - but a reliable source that now arrives at the same time everyday.

I tell everyone I meet in the business that if they're not they should be signed up for the daily updates.

On 7:2:49 19 October 2000 ashley wrote:
>I don't know which sources 'carry the weight' (I guess it
>depends on who you are trying to attract - volume versus
>targeting etc.) but I don't rely on the nationals at all
>for news any more.
>
>I used to be an avid Guardian on a Monday reader (quite a
>Bible if you're working in the Media industry) but only
>read it occasionally now. I sometimes make the effort to
>read the dotcom Telegraph on a Thursday and the @chieve
>section in the weekend Telegraph. To be honest, I haven't
>been that impressed with any of the nationals e-business
>coverage - perhaps working in the industry it feels to
>'mainstream'.
>
>I find online sources MUCH better if it is news you want.
>I get a mixture of things emailed to me each day:
>The Register's news: http://www.theregister.co.uk
>Revolution's news: http://www.revolution.haynet.com/
>Netimperative's round ups: http://www.netimperative.com
>
>I also get press releases sent to me by Internetwire
>(http://www1.internetwire.com/iwire/home ) though this is
>US focused.
>
>There are a couple of other more technical and specialist
>e-mails I get sent on topics such as eCRM, marketing,
>broadband etc.
>
>For news on competing Internet consultancies I use this
>site's moreover feed (http://www.e-
>consultancy.com/providers/ ) - Razorfish cutting staff by
>10%...
>
>For industry comment, useful tips and advice and
>discussing issues with 'real' people I clearly use this
>site's discussion forums and have the relevant content
>e-mailed to me each day through the email digest function.
>For the same reason I belong to a couple of egroups
>(usability, eCRM, FirstTuesday) that do a similar thing.
>
>For features, analysis and more leisured reading (tube,
>weekends, lunchbreaks etc.) I read most of the industry
>trade press titles: Revolution, New Media Age, Red
>Herring, Business 2.0, e-Business, The Standard. I also
>read things like the Harvard Business Review and McKinsey
>Quarterly on or offline, but mostly offline.
>
>For more detailed research then I would either resort to
>paid for research (likes of Jupiter, Forrester etc.) or
>use freely available research on the web - the white
>papers search function on this site (
>http://www.e-consultancy.com/knowledge/whitepapers/search.-
>asp ) is very useful for that.
>
>That's it! I don't think there is enough time to take on
>any more so it would be a question of dropping some in the
>favour of others. Once I get round to buying a PDA I am
>sure to use the AvantGo service
>(http://avantgo.com/frontdoor/index.html) for getting the
>content I want from the nationals. I very much doubt I
>would then buy the nationals for their e-business
>coverage, but I would continue to buy them for more
>general weekend reading.