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Issue 24
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VOLUME 2 ISSUE 1
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WELCOME
http://www.fita.org/
Happy New Year to all our
readers! May this year be a happy and prosperous one for
you!
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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TIME
AND DATE
http://www.timeanddate.com/
It's that time of year when I
take down the old, tattered calendars around my house
and office, and put up new, clean ones that will soon be
covered in various colors of ink, with appointments and
deadlines written in or crossed out, notes and scraps of
paper taped or tacked to them, and other attempts to
impose order on my days. There are some good tools for
getting organized at timeanddate.com
at www.timeanddate.com, which is a site that has
resources to help you get control of your time. Here you
can design your own calendars, as well as do more
complicated things like create a teleconference across
time zones, or keep tabs on your friends around the
world by time zone.
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FEATURED REGIONAL SITE -- WELCOME TO THE EURO
http://europa.eu.int/euro/html/home5.html?lang=5
When I went on a trip to
Europe in high school (don't ask how long ago that was)
I came back with a pocketful of bank notes and coins
from the four countries I visited. I promptly took them
to my local bank and converted them to dollars and
cents. I guess they'd be collectors' items now, because
on January 1st the Euro was officially introduced as the
currency of exchange for the countries of the European
Union, replacing the coins and bank notes of each
country. If you want to get up to speed on the Euro, a
good Web page to visit is Welcome
to the Euro at
europa.eu.int/euro/html/home5.html?lang=5, at the Web
site of the European Union. This site will answer all
your questions about the Euro, from a business and
consumer standpoint.
A great business portal to Europe is Europages at
www.europages.com, which has hundreds of resources for
companies and individuals who want to do business in
Europe. You can search by company name, by product or
service, or browse the list of industries to find what
you're looking for.
There are lots more links to Europe at the FITA site.
Go to fita.org/webindex,
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 scroll down to
Europe and select a country or area in the pop-up window
. Or simply type "Europe" in the search box at http://fita.org/.
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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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COUNTRY AND REGIONAL SEARCH ENGINES
http://www.philb.com/countryse.htm
I've said before that the
shotgun approach to searching doesn't work very well on
the Web. If you use an all-purpose search engine you'll
get overwhelmed with results, most of which will be
useless. That's why I like Country and
Regional Search Engines at
www.philb.com/countryse.htm. It's got a list of search
engines for every country, no matter how small (example:
there are four for Bahrain), and the site's creator,
Phil Bradley, says he'll keep the list updated
regularly.
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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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JUMPSTATION GEO
http://www.ccge.org/geosources/jumpstn.htm
I like maps, and geography was
one of my favorite subjects as a kid. Even if you can't
stand geography, however, you're bound to find something
useful at Jumpstation
Geo at www.ccge.org/geosources/jumpstn.htm. This
site has a huge list of links to everything that's
remotely related to geography on the Internet, and
you'll find some fascinating stuff here. How about a
search engine for sounds (earthquakes, storms, etc.)? Or
a site where you can type in a U.S. ZIP code and find
all the people in that area who contributed to political
parties? Or a site with the Top Ten space science
photos? You'll find all of these and more at Jumpstation
Geo.
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For archived issues of Really Useful Sites for
the International Trade Professional, click here.
For a free list of links to useful sites in a wide
variety of categories (both business and personal),
visit my Web
site, at
www.reallyusefulsites.org.
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Published by Federation
of International Trade Associations
Copyright ©
2002 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
editor John
McDonnell at jaymack@fita.org.
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