This manual offers advice on information gathering by using search engines, Web alerts, newsletters, RSS feeds, and text mining. It follows the path drawn by the information cycle:
- a clear view on one’s environment, information assets and needs may guide action and lead to intelligence
- a specific scanning package with relevant sources will help to know where to search on the web
- Web information management tools, when carefully selected, will provide an automated support for information monitoring
- a professional project framework for information scanning activities can draw the way to get good practices and avoid information management pitfalls
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