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In this era of Big Data, social media, and floods of unreliable information, Googling it is not enough. In the olden days before search engines, search experts like Robert Berkman used tools, techniques, and diverse information sources to perform deep and reliable research. Today, for those who want to go deeper, to find and validate reliable information, to tap the power of big data and social networks, you can take advantage of Berkmans expertise through his powerful, updated sixth edition of Find It Fast.Howard RheingoldIn Find It Fast, business research guru Robert Berkman offers authoritative advice on how to locate the best information sources, connect with the experts behind those sources, and combine expert techniques to do fast and effective research on any subject.This fully updated sixth edition goes beyond Google, detailing the use of Big Data and social networks for research. Youll find a wealth of practical guidance on evaluating information, using precision search strategies, and making the most of traditional research sources and techniques.Whether you are looking for consumer information, data for a job or project, facts for starting a new business, or an answer to an obscure question, Find It Fast will help you find it. Fast!Search engines have seemingly turned everyone into information retrieval experts. Berkman shows us that while we may think we all have search superpowers, the tools themselves may be mere mortals kryptonite. A must-read for anyone interested in how to find their way through an increasingly unknowable digital future.Stefan Weitz, author, Search: How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter

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FIND IT FAST

A wonderful book... highly recommended.

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A valuable reference work for anyone digging for information.

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For serious researchers, this book is a gold mine.

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Extracting Expert Information From Social Networks, Big Data, Tweets, and More

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Find It Fast, Sixth Edition: Extracting Expert Information From Social Networks, Big Data, Tweets, and More

Copyright 2015 by Robert I. Berkman

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Published by Information Today, Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, New Jersey 08055.

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Berkman, Robert I.

Find it fast : extracting expert information from social networks, big data, tweets, and more / Robert I. Berkman. Sixth edition.

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ISBN 978-1-937290-04-7 (paperback)

1. Information retrieval. 2. Research. 3. Internet searching. 4. Search engines. 5. Information resourcesEvaluation. I. Title.

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Id like to express my gratitude to the many people who in one way or another played a big part in making this book come to pass, from the first edition published in 1987 through this one, the sixth.

My wife, Mary Walsh, gave me encouragement at the most critical momentswithout it the book would not have been written. George Finnegan has been a true mentor. Ill always be thankful for the chance to have worked for him which was a once-in-a-lifetime learning opportunity. Janet Goldstein, my first editor at HarperCollins, believed enough in the book to give it a chance and always provided support and great ideas.

Nancy Brandwein, Ken Coughlin, and Lilli Warren all offered critical insights, suggestions, and critiques of the original manuscript. Those who assisted with past editions include Sandy Gollop, Debbie Cohen, Ginny Fisher, Leigh Woods, Hella Rader, Cindy Pereiri, Jeff Goodman, Pam Goodman, Marie Kotas, and Trisha Karsay. Thanks are also due to Sasha Mishkin for her valuable help with the new edition.

Im very appreciative of my colleagues at Information Today, Inc., particularly my editor John B. Bryans for helping get this 6th edition published after a 15-year hiatus from the 5th. Ive been fortunate to have a helpful and encouraging team to work with for many years, publishing my books and the monthly research journal I co-edit, and supporting my other professional endeavors. I also want to note my appreciation for the excellent work of Beverly Michaels for her careful reading of the latest manuscript and her vital observations and questions that helped shape it into a better book.

A special thank you goes to everyone in the Norris family for providing me with such a beautiful and relaxing spot in which to write the first edition, in North Truro on Cape Cod.

Finally, thanks to my parents and brothers for their love, support, and invaluable ideas.

Its simple to go on the web and find information. So why would you need a book about doing research?

Perhaps if you Google that question youll find the answer.

Actually... no. Googling that question wont get you a good answer. There are, in fact, still countless queries and information problems for which the answer wont be found via Google. Or Wikipedia. Or Twitter. And thats one of the points of this newly revised book on how to find credible information and perform good research.

Find It Fast, first published in 1987, was last revised for its fifth edition in the year 2000. Thats eons ago in the information world, and an awful lot has happened in that world since then. For example Web 2.0, Wikipedia, Twitter, citizen reporting, sentiment detection, real-time search, social media, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, YouTube, Vine, tagging, cloud collaboration, the wisdom of crowds, collaborative filtering, LinkedIn, Klout, Siri, Snapchat, social media monitoring, Facebook, Foursquare, and Flickrand more!

Back in the year 2000, all those concepts and sites were either not around or barely emerging. Thats an enormous amount of change in the information world.

But a lot has not changedspecifically, the elements of doing good research. For example, understanding how sources differ, knowing which resources to use, finding and evaluating experts, verifying information, understanding surveys, controlling ones biases, asking the right questions, assessing source credibility, disregarding the noise, understanding whats truly significant, and knowing when to conclude a project.

The More Things Change...?

Can we say, then, that doing good research has not fundamentally changed, but that the sources, tools, and strategies have changed?

Well, not quite. Not only have the sources, tools, and strategies clearly changed, they have, in fact, changed so dramatically that they have produced a revolutionary rethinking in many aspects of what constitutes good research.

Why are these changes truly revolutionary? We have to start by looking back to the mid-1990s, with the arrival of the internet, of course, which demolished the high barriers to entry for becoming a publisher. The last time we had a change that revolutionary for creating and distributing information was over 600 years ago when a German by the name of Johannes Gutenberg came up with the concept of movable type.

By the early 2000s we saw the emergence of the social webor Web 2.0 as it was then known. Initially, interaction on the web was primarily in the form of blogs, but this innovation was quickly followed by an explosion of other two-way information-sharing platforms: Flickr, YouTube, Tumblr, MySpace, Facebook, and many others. The social web permitted anyone to share his or her opinions, knowledge, and content, and to become part of a larger global conversation. As a result, we have all had to rethink some fundamental assumptions about what constitutes a credible source and, therefore, what it means to do good research.

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