Since launching KnowledgeBid nearly a year ago, our goal has been to respond to our customers’ needs and to make the KnowledgeBid platform more useful. While it hasn’t been obvious to our users, KnowledgeBid has undergone massive changes over the past year. The biggest shift for us has been the evolution from an expert network competitor into a tool used by other expert networks to recruit experts. Read the rest of this entry »
KnowledgeBid recently got a nice mention in an interesting article in Wall Street & Technology called “Semantics Help Wall Street Cope with Data Overload“. The piece has resulted in quite a few calls from some interesting people wanting to learn more about what we’re up to. We want to say a big thank you to Golda Velez for including us in the piece.
Integrity Research Associates will soon publish a forecast for the expert network industry in they will call for continued growth coupled with greater compliance requirements, competition, and a trend towards expert network internalization on the buy-side. We at KnowledgeBid wholeheartedly agree with this forecast. The value of quality primary information will always be massive, but the manner in which this information is long overdue for industry-wide change. Read the rest of this entry »
The morning the New York Stock Exchange hosted a panel entitled “Expert Networks: Issues and Opportunities for Public Companies”. The session was moderated by Keith Ackerman, who is Global Head of Next Generation Research at Thomson Financial. On the panel were Howard Dicker, Partner at Weil, Gotshal; Jonathan Glick, Director of Research Operations at the Gerson Lehrman Group; Michael Lynch, Managing Director, Global Commission Management at Merrill Lynch; and Michael Mayhew, Chairman & Co-CEO at Integrity Research. The video of the panel can be found here. Read the rest of this entry »
The folks at Integrity Research Associates recently published an interesting forecast for the investment research industry. Integrity provides syndicated research and consulting services to the investment community. In short, the Integrity is forecasting a continued decline in “traditional” investment research consumption from investment banks and research analysts, coupled with a continued increase in demand for alternative research services. Integrity cites Regulation FD, soft dollar codification, and continuing technological innovation as the major drivers in the revolution. These trends are in large part what inspired the formation of KnowledgeBid over year ago. The full report can be viewed here. Read the rest of this entry »
Yet another feature release…providers can now put KnowledgeBid buttons and links on their blogs, websites, social networking pages, or online resumes and link to their KnowledgeBid public profiles. These buttons will help providers promote their profiles allow people to create private listings with them directly. I’ve included some non-linked examples below and you can also see the buttons in action on my blog and Joe’s personal site. Read the rest of this entry »
Joe has been really cranking. Providers can now create public profiles to promote themselves and their areas of expertise. Public profile content is generated from your private profile content. We made a very easy to use control panel which allows you to select which parts of your private profile you would like to be displayed publicly (if any). Read the rest of this entry »
You may have noticed a new button on our homepage that says “Private Listings”. If you missed it, it’s in green right next to the public listings button (screenshot included below). We recently finished private listing functionality and think folks will find it extremely useful. In short, anyone can initiate a private listing directly with anyone else so long as you know their email address. If you locate someone that you would like to learn from, you can send them a private listing via email. Read the rest of this entry »
One the features our users find most useful is KnowledgeBid Alerts. You can quickly and easily create alerts for the industries, markets, or subjects you are exposed to or have interest in and we’ll send you an alert via email you when your expertise is in demand. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, we’ve been up and running for about a month now, but today we issued our first press release and are officially open for business. Read the rest of this entry »
