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BRINT "Most Useful and Thoughtful Web Site" Above Gartner and Giga

Sep. 13, 1998: BRINT's pioneering efforts receive top billing as "most useful and thoughtful Web sites for business people" in the annual review of the Pulitzer Prize winning US national newspaper PioneerPlanet published by the St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer Press since 1849. The review of a dozen or so sites also included other leading business research sites including Gartner Group, Giga Information Group, Moody's Investor Service, and, Institute for Management Development (IMD) based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Los Angeles to New Zealand... Media Reviews of BRINT Around the World

June - September, 1998: Special Libraries Association reviews leading resources on Knowledge Management in its publication Information Outlook highlighting the 'Wonderful Web Site on Knowledge Management' at BRINT. InfoWorld reviews of BRINT highlight its coverage of Knowledge Management and highlight in its Enterprise Careers section "a mountain of information on researching companies." Los Angeles Times profiles BRINT as the online research site in its Business & Technology section. New Zealand's Internet Phone Book "available from selected food stores, groceries, bookshops, newsagents, dairies, superettes and other appropriate outlets" reports inclusion of BRINT in its Business & Technology research section. Online, "the leading magazine for Information Professionals" reviews BRINT. Computer Currents, San Francisco 'Bay Area Edition' features BRINT in Best of the Web for E-Commerce. Other reviews of BRINT have been reported from the Journal of Management, T.H.E. Journal, PC Magazine, Southtown newspaper from south suburban Chicago, Canadian Business, Revue Horizons (Argentina), Economic Times (India), MBA Magazine (UK), DEC's Management Reading List Newsletter, and, Harvard Management Update Newsletter.

Government of Netherlands Seeks BRINT's Counsel on the Knowledge Economy

May 7, 1998: Seniormost national economic advisors of the Netherlands Government visited with BRINT's founder Dr. Yogesh Malhotra in course of their nationwide tour of leading research institutes including MIT and Harvard. The visit of the top advisors to BRINT headquarters was coordinated by the Dutch Ministry of Science and Education and facilitated by the Office for Science and Technology of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington, D.C. Dr. Malhotra engaged in an extended dialog with the Dutch delegates to explore how Knowledge Management issues are relevant to many developed countries transforming to knowledge-based economies. Particular focus of the discussion was on developing the national technological, infrastructural and institutional bases for addressing the balance of the supply and demand of educated knowledge workers. The emerging trends in the needs of global organizations in terms of lifelong learning and education, the changing dynamics of the education channels for fulfilling such needs, as well as the role of new information technologies in these issues were discussed. The distinctions and relationships between learning and innovation, and the role of government-supported institutions in better serving the emerging needs of the market were also explored. Two key observations resulting from the discussion: a) most developed countries face similar challenges in making the transition to the knowledge-based economy, despite differences in their current station on the curve of industrial and scientific progress; and, b) many such countries could benefit by relating the development of their technological, educational and institutional infrastructures to Knowledge Management in terms of social networks of people; proprietary knowledge artifacts in terms of intellectual property; knowledge-based assets such as methodologies, techniques and best practices; and codified knowledge in terms of hardware, software, tools, technologies, policies and procedures.

BRINT is "Practitioner's and Academic's Paradise" says MBA Magazine

April, 1998: Each month MBA magazine invites a panel of MBA alumni from a leading international business school to review their own selection of books and Web sites. This month's review of @Brint.com in the magazine noted: "All you ever wanted to know about knowledge management, be it information technology, contemporary organisations, business process re-engineering, organisational learning, intranets and virtual corporations, you will find at www.brint.com. The list goes on and on. This is the practitioner's and academic's paradise simply because it is a haven for you got it, information."

BRINT, A Stimulating Meeting of Minds for Managers, says Software Magazine

February, 1998: Software Magazine, the premier magazine of software professionals notes in this month's issue: "Where do business and IT professionals go to talk about knowledge management trends? For desk-bound knowledge managers, a stimulating meeting of minds can occur in virtual venues such as @Brint (www.brint.com)."

BRINT's Founder in the Company of Herbert Simon and Ikujiro Nonaka

Feb 19, 1998: Maeil Business Newspaper, the leading business newspaper of Korea, with a circulation of 750,000, publishes in its knowledge management series interviews with Ikujiro Nonaka and Yogesh Malhotra among other world recognized experts on Knowledge Management. Dr. Malhotra's interview with Maeil Business Newspaper is accessible online at: Knowledge Management, Knowledge Organizations & Knowledge Workers: A View from the Front Lines. The Association for Quality and Participation invites Dr. Malhotra's article on Knowledge Management for publication in their Journal for Quality & Participation special issue on the theme Learning and Information Management that will contain other invited articles by Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon and the Royal Dutch Shell KM-guru Arie De Gaus, profiled in Peter Senge's bestseller.

BRINT's Founder Delivers Opening Day Keynote at the Global Virtual Knowledge Ecology Fair

Feb 2 - Feb 7, 1998: The Knowledge Ecology Fair, a month long world-level virtual dialog on the web, sponsored by Dow Chemical, Fast Company, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Knowledge Inc., Monsanto, Skandia, and Society for Organizational Learning, opened on February 2nd with a Keynote Presentation by @Brint.com's founder. The keynote is accessible from the following hyperlink: Toward a Knowledge Ecology for Organizational White-Waters.

BRINT, Practical Guidepost for CEOs, says Chief Executive Magazine

Jan / Feb, 1998: In its review of the key online resources for technology and business issues, Chief Executive characterizes @Brint as "a storehouse of business and information technology information, and a practical guidepost to other sources of such information on the Web."

Wall Street Journal reviews BRINT as largest collection on Knowledge Management following up on the interview with BRINT's founder

January 9, 1998: In its third review in the The Wall Street Journal, BRINT is characterized as "probaly the largest collection of knowledge management literature." The review in Tom Petzinger's Frontlines column on the cover page of the Marketplace section appeared following Dr. Yogesh Malhotra's invited interview by the noted journalist and editor from the Wall Street Journal. The article on the cover page of the Marketplace section notes the importance of better understanding of human aspects of knowledge creation as observed by Dr. Malhotra in his interview.

BRINT, the "Premier Collection of Contemporary Business, Management and Technology Issues" Notes Wall Street Journal

December 16, 1997: BRINT is featured as "One of the more useful Web sites... " in 'Managing Your Career' column of the Wall Street Journal in the 'Marketplace' cover page. The narrative observes that BRINT is "building itself as the premier collection of contemporary business, management and technology issues, particularly knowledge management, organizational learning and business- process reengineering."

"Whoa! Stop here!" at BRINT Says Computerworld Review of Job Sources in Hi-Tech Fields

November 1, 1997: In its review of the online web sites for jobs in the hi-tech field, Computerworld review of resources notes about BRINT that is featured at top of the list: "Whoa! Stop here!" The review continues to note that @Brint.com web site ""profiles some key issues relevant to the information systems professional's career." Whether you seek information about the role of the CIO, IS skill sets, salary/job surveys, career tips (resume and interview stuff), job postings or related articles from many of the major industry trade papers, you can't go wrong."

BRINT, Favorite Bookmark of Coopers & Lybrand Vice Chairman and CKO

October 3, 1997: In the interview published in the October 1997 of Fast Company Magazine, Ellen Knapp, the Vice Chairman and CKO of Coopers & Lybrand notes that: "There are two kinds of people on the Net: surfers and divers. I'm a diver -- I like to know where to find the information I need, and then I dive in after it." On the top of her list is "@BRINT, A Business Researcher's Interests, "A virtual library of the best sources for knowledge management and intellectual capital."

BRINT "Unparalleled in Depth and Relevance of Content for Business Research" Says Information Week

In her popular column of September 29, 1997, Information Week columnist Cheryl Currid notes that "the Net can be a gold mine of information or a quagmire. Well-organized searches are the key to success." She writes a detailed review about BRINT observing that "it can help end users to very quickly home in on the information they need." While making recommendations for IS staffers to coordinate their collaborative web site development and maintenance efforts, she says about BRINT, "When it comes to doing business research, this massive knowledge base is unparalleled in its depth and relevance of content."

BRINT "Best General Business Pointer" in Business Week Online

July 28, 1997: Bob Berkman, an author renowned for his books and articles on research tools, discussed the best business research tools for your small business in today's Business Week Online edition. In response to Business Week's question: "What Web sites are the best to get business information sources?" he responds: "There are tons of sources on the Web. Hoover's is a leading Web site. The Wall Street Journal is still considered the best research source, but the best pointer is a site called http://www.brint.com -- brint stands for business-researchers' interests. Of all the general business pointers I've seen, that's the best&"

'Knowledge Management Think Tank' Online Discussion Community Launched

June 13, 1997: The concept of this 'Think Tank' is based on the realization of the dire need for generating interdisciplinary thinking synergy between the practicing executives who want to escape the traditional 'stovepipes' and research scholars who share a strong interest in the topics of Creation, Facilitation and Processing of Knowledge based on interactions within and between humans and information systems.
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BRINT, "Resource for Virtual Organizations: The Future Inc.", Says Training and Development

May 28, 1997: American Society of Training and Development, in the process of developing their first special journal issue on Virtual Organizations, interviewed Dr. Yogesh Malhotra, the founder of BRINT. On article provided a vision of what a Virtual Organization of the future would be and listed BRINT as the key resource for developing that vision. Another article included quotations from various interviewees including Dr. Malhotra from BRINT and Hatim Tayabji and Bill Pape from Verifone. Excerpts from Malhotra's interview cited in the article are listed here: "The key emphasis [of a virtual organization] is on an employee's empowerment and self-control. In this new model, employees are expected to make decisions and judgments based on the demands of a specific situation... Malhotra says that watching an employee's every move is not conducive to flexibility and autonomy, which are key objectives of a virtual organization. Open communication channels and an exchange of values should drive out the need for continuous monitoring." Click on the following links to access the complete text of the interview and the article.

BRINT KM Library Reviewed in Forbes ASAP and Harvard Business School Publications

May 17, 1997: BRINT underscores its thematic focus more explicitly by sponsoring and developing the World Wide Web Virtual Library on Knowledge Management. The World Wide Web Virtual Library on Knowledge Management is reviewed as a "Tool to Raise Your Company's IQ" in Forbes ASAP special issue on Intellectual Capital and is also reviewed under "Web Sites for Managers" in the Harvard Management Update Newsletter. Earlier issues of Harvard Management Update Newsletter had profiled other subsections of the BRINT web portals.

BRINT 'State of Thinking on Key Business Technologies' Reviewed in Chief Executive

April, 1997: In its review of the key online resources for technology and business issues, Chief Executive notes that @Brint "shows that it is possible to tame the flood of information on the Web... It's a tremendous resource for finding on-line information or just to get a feel for the state of thinking on key business technologies.

BRINT Unravels Myths About Intranets and Webcasting in Business Week, Datamation and Forbes

March 10, 1997: In a spate of critiques of cover stories in some of the national periodicals, including Business Week, Datamation and Forbes, BRINT's founder, Dr. Yogesh Malhotra deconstructs the assumptions underlying articles on Peter Drucker's views about managerial use of computers, "inherent capacity" of intranets for sharing knowledge, and, the early hype surrounding "webcasting".

BRINT is Computerworld Annual Forecast Internet 'Best Site'

January 18, 1997: The Computerworld Annual Forecast just declared BRINT as the 'Best Site' for "its breadth and depth, but especially for its relevance to the multifaceted needs and concerns of IS professionals." This review follows on several similar accolades from various other business and IT publications including Strategist Quarterly, CIO Magazine, Webmaster Magazine, PC Week, @Interactive Week, PC Magazine, PC Executive, and dozens of other leading Information Technology publications.

San Jose Mercury News Rates BRINT First in In-Depth Company and Industry Research

December 18, 1996: Silicon Valley based San Jose Mercury News article observed the depth and breadth of resources available at BRINT observing that: "First on the list of in-depth sites is the Business and Technology Research page. I could easily spend a year writing columns reviewing nothing but resources listed on this page."

Fortune Gives Top Billing and "Thumbs Up" to BRINT in its Smart Managing: Web Sites for Managers column

November 11, 1996: The article in Smart Managing section of Fortune reviewed four sites, BRINT, Four11, AT&T Business Network and Mapquest. The review for BRINT notes: "Thumbs up for this serious surfer's tool."

Formal Launch of BRINT New Web Site

November 4, 1996: Our press release of November 4, 1996, announcing the formal launch of the BRINT metasite is available for your perusal. BRINT develops upon its predecessor A Business Researcher's Interests which was formally launched in 1995 although it had established an early Web presence in 1994. Detailed statement about the launch of BRINT is accessible online.

BRINT Ranked Over Digital's Alta Vista in Industry.Net Awards

March 18, 1996: In the inaugural Industry.Net Online Achievement Awards in Chicago, @Brint.com's predecessor "A Business Researcher's Interests" was ranked above Alta Vista as 'Top Nominee' in the Best Research Site category. @Brint.com was right on the heels of Lycos that was the winner in this category. A Business Researcher's Interests was also selected as a Nominee in the Greatest Individual Contribution to Industry Online, however was outranked by Netscape founders Jim Clark and Mark Andreessen. Details available in this document.

The Last Era of the Net: What Happened Before...

BRINT Generating Worldwide Buzz

Sometime in 1995: @Brint.com BizTech directory has been increasingly becoming globally popular, some sections of the directory have been already copied by worldwide institutions including Harvard Business School, the business and technology press in the USA starts reviewing @Brint.com in its columns and many corporate executives, government policy makers, professors and MBAs spread the word about @Brint.com across Europe, Asia and Australia. A Business Researcher's Interests has scored a number of firsts to its credit by this time. It has been reviewed as the first site on the World Wide Web to compile comprehensive information about the leading edge topics such as Virtual Corporations, Business Process Reengineering, Organizational Learning, Complex Systems, Intranets and Global Information Technology Issues. The Best Practices initiative of the US Federal Government, FEDSBEST, elects @Brint.com as its council partner.

BRINT Emerges on Net Before Net is Hot

Sometime in 1994: BRINT was launched as a real world testbed for charting new understanding about the emerging trends at the intersection of business and technology management and related implementation issues. It started with the very first version of the Mosaic browser and its simple mission at that time was motivated by the Star Trek series: "Cyberspace, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the knowledge creating company. It's continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds.. at the dynamic intersection of business and technology... data and knowledge, to seek out new models of work, organizations, and societies, to boldly go where no one has gone before."