Business Site of the
Month
Connecticut's Job & Career Connection
Why I like it?
Sponsored by the Connecticut State Department of Labor, this site provides not
only links to Connecticut job banks, but also career exploration and job
searching tips.
Great Sites Archive
The 'best of the best' sites for the thinking person. Sites
featured are a wealth of web resources!
| Small Business Administration-Online Classroom - Provides free on-line instruction to help small business people learn a variety of skills including how to write a business plan, how to start a small business, how to find a business mentor, how to find financing and e-business fundamentals. |
| CEOexpress - a comprehensive, easy to use, listing of valuable sites for the business executive...be sure to check out the "Tools" area. |
| The Better Business Bureau - Useful site for consumers and businesses. Contains information about scams and businesses targeted at small businesses with tips on how to avoid them, tax and charitable giving tips as well as basic Business ethics guidelines and tips. Issues reports on members and non-members. Can also search BBB Online which allows one to look for internet based businesses to see if they comply with BBB standards. |
| Company Information-The Spire Project - This is a detailed article that provides a thorough description of how to research companies. What I like about it is the practical step-by-step process they outline - taking you from the easiest to the more difficult methods to obtain information. The Internet and printed resources cited are reliable sources of information. Although there are many such "tutorials" available, The Spire Project, in my opinion, is one of the best for content and organization. |
| Morningstar - Morningstar's ratings are a commonly used benchmark for evaluating investments. Their web site allows free access to a lot of their key ratings information. One neat feature is their Portfolio Manager where you can monitor the performance of one or more portfolios - stocks, funds, bonds and cash together, in concise, customized views. |
| FindArticles.com - This site provides free access to full-text articles and is provided through a partnership between LookSmart and the Gale Group. The articles are current (from 1998) and come from over 350 business, general interest, education and news periodicals. My test found it to be a good sources for company information found via BusinessWire. Although Simsbury Public Library subscribes to a fee-based periodical database, InfoTrac, this free service is worth using to supplement searches on InfoTrac. |
| Yahoo Finance - This is "one-stop-shopping" for financial information! The site is essentially a portal containing the most comprehensive collection of financial, economic and tax information links that I've found on the Web to date. The site design is clean, easy to navigate and the sites have obviously been selected with care. The selected website links are arranged by the following categories: Markets Today, Market Commentary, Financial News, Earnings, IPOs, Columns, Insiders, Tech Stocks, Funds, Calendar, U.S. Economy, Taxes and Miscellaneous. |
| In Maze - This site is a "Family of Portals", which means you will find links to sites for specific industries. |
| Internal Revenue Service - Great place for small business tax information and support. Check out the "Small business and self employed community link" on the left side. Download tax forms and publications found on the bottom of the page. Can get a free copy of their small business resource guide CD-ROM developed by the IRS and the Small Business Administration. |
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Small Business Development Center National Information Clearinghouse - Well organized portal maintained by the SBDCNET in partnership with the Small Business Administration, University of Texas at San Antonio and the Association of Small Business Development Centers. Contains links to valuable web sites related to small business. Categories include "Getting Started", "Company Research", "Copyright & Trademark", and "Business Plans". |
| Librarians Index to the Internet - This is an excellent place to start your hunt for web sites related to business information. This portal, maintained by librarians, is an annotated collection of web sites. Web sites are arranged by subject category and are searchable by keyword. Business sites are comprehensive and carefully selected. |
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Gale's Company & Business Resource Center - Access company & industry information via Connecticut's Digital Library, IConn. Database includes financial information on publicly held companies, trade periodicals including newsletters as well as industry information. Note: you won't find a lot of information on privately held companies here. |
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Big Charts - In my opinion, this is the easiest site to use when trying to locate historical stock prices. |
| Ecola - Free online directory of newspapers worldwide. Newspapers can be located by area code and frequency of publication. Links directly to newspaper's web pages. Note: not all papers provide searchable online archives. For business journals try looking at the "non-daily" papers. |
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Infotrac Onefile - Access periodical articles via Connecticut's Digital Library, Iconn. Database includes many niche industry publications and can be very useful in identifying company information like product releases, personnel changes and company profiles. |
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JobStar.Org - Career & job site created and maintained by the California Library System. Excellent source of information with links to the more popular and reputable resources in the field like Richard Bolles, the Wall Street Journal and the Riley Guide. Only drawback: the job bank listings are primarily for California. |
For further information or web site recommendations contact Jennifer Keohane.
Last updated 04/13/2005.
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