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Issue 22
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VOLUME 1 ISSUE 22
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WELCOME
http://www.fita.org/
Here's your latest issue of
Really Useful Sites for the International Trade
Professional. This free bi-weekly newsletter reviews
useful Web sites from the Web Resources database at FITA's International Trade/
Import-Export Portal at http://fita.org, an
excellent source for trade leads, news, events, and a
link library of 7,000+ sites related to international trade.
Please feel free to pass this
newsletter on to others.
My name is John
McDonnell, and for years I wrote a weekly e- newsletter
that profiled business-oriented Web sites. Now I'm using
my Web research skills to find sites that are useful for
international trade, as well as some fun sites that
you'll enjoy visiting.
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TRANSLATIONS GALORE
http://world.altavista.com/
The Web is truly global now,
and even language differences aren't the barrier they
used to be. These days you can communicate with people
on the Web even if you don't speak the same language.
Just go to a translation site like Babel Fish at
world.altavista.com, type in the text you need
translated (or the URL of a Web site), select the
languages involved, and in seconds Babel Fish will
convert the text for you. Another good translation site
is Reverso at
translation2.paralink.com. Now you can also get your
e-mail translated into other languages. Two sites that
provide this service are Mail2World at
www.mail2world.com/m2w and Trans-Email
at www.trans-email.com/index2.htm. They're worth
investigating if you need to send e-mail to people who
speak a different language than
you.
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THE
FITA BUY/SELL EXCHANGE
http://fita.worldbid.com/
FITA and Worldbid.com have
launched a new International Buy/Sell exchange. The FITA Buy/Sell
Exchange at fita.worldbid.com is FITA's new
business-to-business marketplace that helps your company
find more business by delivering tender opportunities,
RFQ's and qualified offers to buy and sell. You will
have access to a global network of affiliated trade
sites that work together to bring together businesses
across borders. Take a
look!
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COUNTRY SEARCH ENGINES
http://www.kostenloses.com/choose/search-engine/all_countries.html
There are times when it's best
to use a big all-purpose search engine like Google, but
there are other times when you need a narrower focus.
When I was looking for a tai chi teacher I could drive
to, I went to the Best
International Multi Search Engines Generator at
www.kostenloses.com/choose/search-engine/all_countries.html
and chose search engines in my state. I got a smaller
list of hits, but every one was a good lead. There are
search engines here for all U.S. states and every
country from Albania to Zimbabwe. One caution: each
search engine you select opens in a new window, so
unless you want a bunch of new windows opening, limit
how many you choose.
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FEATURED REGIONAL SITE -- GUIDE TO POST-COMMUNIST STATES
http://www.ku.edu/~herron
The countries that used to be
part of the Soviet Union are going through rapid
changes, and if you want to keep up on what's happening
in this corner of the world, check out Erik Herron's Guide to
Post-Communist States on the Web at
www.ku.edu/~herron. Herron, a professor at the
University of Kansas, has put together a useful resource
for anyone interested in these countries. You just click
on a region at the main page, select a country, and
you'll go to a page of links to sites about that
country. Herron has short descriptions of each site,
plus he tells you what languages the site is published
in.
For more links to this region, go to http://fita.org/webindex/index.html,
click on "Regional Resources and Multi-Lateral Trading
Areas" in the left column or "Search by Country or
Region" in the right column, and then go to Europe and
select Former Soviet Union in the pop-up window.
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Are your prospects part of the international trade
community? If so, here's an opportunity to showcase your
service or product to 50,000 subscribers of Really
Useful Sites for the International Trade Professional.
FITA now offers limited sponsorship opportunities to
selected organizations. For information, please contact
Barney Lehrer, Director of eCommerce Development at webmaster@fita.org
or 1-800-969-FITA extension 4.
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INVISIBLE WEB
http://www.invisible-web.net/
Have you heard of the
"Invisible Web"? It's a term for information in
databases that isn't indexed by the major Web search
engines. You have to go to these databases directly to
find the information. There's a portal to these
databases at Invisible-web-net
at www.invisible-web.net. Just click on a category and
you'll be amazed at what you
find.
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Published by Federation
of International Trade Associations
Copyright ©
2001 The Federation of International Trade Associations.
All rights
reserved.
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there topics you'd like to see covered in FITA'S Really
Useful Sites? Send suggestions, ideas, or comments to
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McDonnell at jaymack@fita.org.
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