The National Technical Information Service NTIS –
the largest, central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. The National Technical Information Service(NTIS) serves the nation as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. Here you will find information on more than 600,000 information products covering over 350 subject areas from over 200 federal agencies.

The National Technical Information Service, as part of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology Administration, supports the nation’s economic growth and job creation by providing access to information that stimulates innovation and discovery. NTIS accomplishes this mission through two major programs:

* Information collection and dissemination to the public
* Production and other services for federal agencies

Quick Facts

The NTIS collection (by topic) contains well over 3 million publications and other products covering:

* business and management studies
* health and safety reports
* environmental research reports and site clean-up
* technology innovations
* international market reports
* training tools and materials

NTIS annually distributes more than 1,000,000 products to over 60,000 customers. This includes shipping:

* 100,000 business, technical and scientific reports
* 45,000 best selling books
* 170,000 subscription issues for 200 subscription products distributed to 30,000 subscribers
* 16,000 CD-ROMs, magnetic tapes, and diskettes
* 6,000 audiovisual products
* 700,000 microfiche products

NTIS acquires information from:

* Over 200 government agencies, including the departments of: Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, State, Treasury, Transportation, Veterans Affairs, and much more.
* International contributors including: Canada, Japan, United Kingdom, the former Soviet Union, Western Europe and former Eastern Block countries
* Contracts or cooperative agreements with: the private sector, individuals, firms, and other organizations

NTIS’ Primary Purpose
Assist U.S. industries to accelerate the development of new products and processes as well as helping the U.S. maintain a leading worldwide economic competitive position.

NTIS’ Responsibilities

* Facilitate public access to Federal information
* Develop guidelines for federal agencies to transfer their government information to NTIS
* Develop implementation methods and procedures to facilitate federal agencies in the smooth transfer of information to NTIS
* Maintain a permanent repository of unclassified scientific, technical, engineering, and business information
* Collect and disseminate this information worldwide
* Develop new and enhanced methods for expeditious dissemination of information

They also provide downloadable PDFs containing:

* 2004 Annual Report
* 2003 Annual Report

You can view this informative business resource here:
http://www.ntis.gov/

NetLingo – the award-winning dictionary of Internet terms. It contains thousands of words and definitions that describe the online world of business, technology, and communication. They’re there to educate and entertain you about the lingo used in the online world. They have articles, a “cheat sheet” and much much more:

An online dictionary of Internet terms
You can download the ebook version
You can download Netlingo as a PDF

And they have other internet resources as well including:

Acronyms
Text Messaging (IM)
Smileys & Emoticons
Web Coloring Tool
File Extensions
Useful Business Links

And different categories which include:

Acronyms & Shorthand
Online Business Terms
Online Jargon
Online Marketing
Net Organizations
Net Technology
Net Software
Net Hardware
Net Programming
Technical Terms

You can brush up on your Internet lingo here:
http://www.netlingo.com

ManagementHelp.org

One of world’s largest free, on-line, well-organized business libraries for for-profit and nonprofit service providers, entrepreneurs, leaders, managers and practitioners.

This library is a free community resource to be shared and contributed to by users and readers across the world. The overall goal of the library is to provide leaders and managers (especially those with very limited resources) basic and practical information about personal, professional and organizational development.

Design, development and administration of the library are done primarily as a volunteer effort to the community by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, of Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Carter conceived, developed and maintains the Library, including planning and implementing upgrades, making major modifications, adding miscellaneous links, fixing broken links, answering inquiries about the Library, etc.

Items in the library are relevant to both for-profit and nonprofit organizations unless otherwise marked at the top of the Web page containing the item.

Categories of information include:
Scope, Focus and Design of the Library
Development of the Library
Myths to Overcome Regarding Information About Business, Management and Organizations
Unique Benefits of Getting Management Information on the Web
Advantages and Disadvantages of Web
Guidelines to Get the Most Out of the Library
To Contribute Resources to the Library
Recommended Free Software for Viewing Many of the Documents in This Library (optional)

Their vast amount of links to resources include:
Advertising and Promotion
Benefits and Compensation
Boards of Directors
Business Planning
Capacity Building (Nonprofit)
Career Development
Chief Executive Role
Communications (Intrprsnl)
Communications (Writing)
Computers, Internet & Web
Consultants (using)
Coordinating Activities
Creativity and Innovation
Crisis Management
Customer Satisfaction
Customer Service
E-Commerce
Employee Performance
Employee Wellness
Ethics & Social Respons.
Perf. Mgmnt (basics)
Personal Development
Personal Productivity
Personal Wellness
Planning (many kinds)
Policies (Personnel)
Problem Solving / Decisions
Product/Service Mgmnt
Project Management
Program Management
Public and Media Relations
Quality Management
Research Methods
Risk Management
Sales

And even more….

You can visit this resource here:
http://www.managementhelp.org/

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MeansBusiness

MeansBusiness is the largest and fastest growing database of business ideas in the world. They provide corporations, universities and consultants with the latest and most advanced business thinking from the world’s leading business experts-on demand. Executives use Means Business to help them innovate, solve complex problems, and create new strategies. Leading universities-both corporate and academic-use Meansbusiness to create superior learning and competitive advantage for their organizations.

They have aggregated more ideas from business and management books than any other service in the world. All the material in their database is quoted directly from published books. They don’t paraphrase, summarize, or write abstracts.
(Neither do they overwhelm our users with electronic, full-text versions of books.)

You can click a topic in the right column to access a page that lists summaries and related sub-topics. If you see a title that interests you, click on it. You will then be taken to a page where you can view short summaries or you can choose to buy a full summary.

MeansBusiness editors scan some 100 prominent magazines, newspapers, journals, and web sites in search of the latest and most original business thinking. These ideas are chosen for their originality, cogency, and relevance to today’s rapidly changing economy. The archives are updated on a bi-weekly basis.

They also have a learning center, newsroom and instructions for subscribing.

You can visit this great business resource here:
http://www.meansbusiness.com/

Direct Marketing Association

Founded in 1917, the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) is today the largest trade association for businesses interested in direct, database, and interactive global marketing, with about 5,200 member companies from the United States and 44 foreign nations on six continents.

Both consumer and business-to-business marketers are the users of direct marketing techniques. These marketers employ a number of media, including telephone marketing, catalogs and other direct mail pieces, television, radio, newspaper, magazines, and the Internet to market directly to their customers. The suppliers, of course, are those companies that provide users with supplies and services.

The DMA shapes the way that organizations apply direct/interactive marketing methods to all marketing, sales and customer service activity. Their mission is to encourage the education, growth and profitability of their members and their adherence to high ethical standards.

The DMA provides information and services to businesses interested in direct, database, and interactive global marketing. It represents its member interests, promotes the direct marketing industry, offers training, hosts networking events and much more.

Their members include catalog companies, direct mailers, Internet marketers and others that market to consumers and businesses.

They sport:

A library of articles
Industry tools for you
Government resources
Consumer resources

You can visit this wonderful business resource here:
http://www.the-dma.org/

AdSlogans Unlimited
AdSlogans.com, home of the Advertising Slogan Hall of Fame, runs the world’s most comprehensive advertising slogans database archive. A unique global resource for advertisers and ad agencies, comprising many thousands of English-language commercial advertising slogans, business, company, product or brand marketing slogans, taglines or tag lines, claims, straplines, theme lines, endlines, payoffs, signatures, base lines, slogos (the slogan by the logo) and catchphrases. These are often unregistered, and hard to find in standard trademark registers or directories.

All of the top-twenty-five ad agencies in London, and many others around the world, use thier services to answer questions like these:

•Has my new line, or similar, been run before?

•Who used it, where and when?

•What are other brands in my category saying?

AdSlogans.com exists to serve the needs of advertisers and their agencies in creating great and original slogans. They also serve the needs of the intellectual-property community with information about unregistered lines.

There is no other resource like theirs in the English language for advertisers and marketers anywhere in the world. They have built a growing database of many thousands of advertising slogans / straplines / taglines / endlines / claims.

You can view this great business resource here:
http://www.adslogans.co.uk/

Bpubs.com
The Business Publications Search Engine
No indexes, no surfing, no homepages, just content and more content.

BPubs.com is a directory based Internet search engine that strives to cover the topic of Business Publications. By eliminating the noise of “homepages, index pages, and other extraneous web site components”, their users are able to extract what they truly searching for – content. Their target audience of corporate and business users will become repeat visitors because they save them time finding the information they need.

Their collection is made up of Business Publications and longer Articles. The source of these publications can vary greatly: from Government Agencies, to online Business Zines, to Consulting companies making their expertise available for public consumption. Best of all, they won’t index a publication unless it’s available free of charge.

BPubs.com was developed and is maintained by Steven Matthews. Steve is the Knowledge Services Director at the Vancouver law firm Clark Wilson LLP; he also maintains the Vancouver Law Librarian Blog. As a professional Law Librarian with an active interest in business research and search engines, Steve launched BPubs in 1999 as an experiment into content level indexing. Five years later in 2005, BPubs consistently helps out 40,000 business visitors each month.

You can view this great business resource here:
http://www.bpubs.com/

FreightQuote

freight quote.com provides an instant comparison of numerous well-known freight carriers. The site simplifies shipping by prompting the user for details about the originating site and final destination, shipment contents and packaging. User-friendly tools automate pricing, dispatch, freight documents (Bills of Lading) and shipping labels in one short session. These state-of-the-art tools can be customized to accommodate larger enterprises.

They provide:

• Quotes across multiple modes of transportation from the same rating table
• Integration capabilities for larger enterprises
• Auction functionality for volume customers
• Tools to authorize multiple users from the same company to work from one account
• Ability to control the costs of inbound freight from your suppliers
• Visibility tools to manage shipments from suppliers or distributors

Their customer base consists of over 20,000 active shippers.

7301 College Blvd.
Second Floor
Overland Park, KS 66210
888.595.6298
913.642.4700

You can view this business resource here:
http://www.freightquote.com/
They have a section for Common Freight Shipping Terms here:
http://www.freightquote.com/shipping/Term.index.htm

Small Business Development Centers
The mission of the Association of Small Business Development Centers is to represent the collective interest of their members by promoting, informing, supporting and continuously improving the SBDC network, which delivers nationwide educational assistance to strengthen small/medium business management, thereby contributing to the growth of local, state and national economies.

Small business is the engine of economic growth. There are currently over 22 million small businesses in America – and the number is growing rapidly, with over 800,000 started last year, alone.

Small business accounts for 99% of all U.S. businesses. It employs 53% of the private work force and contributes over half of the nation’s private gross domestic product.

The Association of Small Business Development Centers (ASBDC) is a partnership program uniting private enterprise, government, higher education and local nonprofit economic development organizations. They are dedicated to the sound development of small business throughout America. Founded in 1979, the ASBDC provides a vehicle for continuous improvement of the Small Business Development Center program, exchange of information among members regarding objectives, methods and results in business management and technical assistance and advocacy of America’s small business community.

There is a learning center, government resources and even a place to rate your own business.

ASBDC
8990 Burke Lake Road
Burke, Virginia 22015
PHONE: 703-764-9850
FAX: 703-764-1234
info@asbdc-us.org

Don Wilson – President/CEO

Donna Ettenson – Vice President of Operations

Betsy Kaufman – Director of Membership Services and Meeting Planner

Dan O’Grady – Assistant Director of Government Relations

Ann Maltese – Accreditation Program Manager and Administrative Manager

Diane Lamb, Adminstrative Support

You can visit this business resource here:
http://www.asbdc-us.org/