“More successful students are usually very adept at managing their own personal knowledge” (Garner, 2010). But what is personal knowledge management (PKM) and what are its components? In this workshop we will review some PKM principles, review various information management tools freely available to Tufts students and share practical techniques you can apply to become a more efficient and effective knowledge worker.  

Learn how to use online resources to create customized lists of organizations in the private and public sector by region and specialization. Also how to download these lists to Excel for further analysis.

This session will review how to use the Pitchbook database for locating information on private and public companies, new industry sectors, entrepreneurial finance as well as firms and deals in the impact investment space.  It will also highlight other sources available at Tufts for PE/VC finance information. 

Want to learn more about using Bloomberg, a financial services resource with real time business data?  This session will review finding equity and industry data on Bloomberg and how this resource complements other databases Fletcher has for financial information.  It will also cover locating bonds, indices, currencies, where to find deal and VC/PE investment related information, ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) information, how to access it and answer any other questions you might have about Bloomberg.

Want to learn more about using Bloomberg, a financial services resource with real time business data?  This session will review finding equity and industry data on Bloomberg and how this resource complements other databases Fletcher has for financial information.  It will also cover locating bonds, indices, currencies, where to find deal and VC/PE investment related information, ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) information, how to access it and answer any other questions you might have about Bloomberg.

This session will include a review of statistical data features in Euromonitor Passport, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), IHS Connect, PRS CountryData.com, World Development Indicators as well as other resources available from Ginn Library’s website.  Types of data reviewed for countries and worldwide include: socio-economic and political risk indicators, forecasts, digital and traditional socio-economic indicators, sector and demographic statistics, company/brand market share, etc.

This session will review how to use the Pitchbook database for locating information on private and public companies, new industry sectors, entrepreneurial finance as well as firms and deals in the impact investment space.  It will also highlight other sources available at Tufts for PE/VC finance information. 

This session will review the advanced search commands and analysis features available in Dow Jones Factiva. Data gathered can be used to examine global political, economic and business content from over 14,000 newspapers, magazines and other major journals like Foreign Affairs available in this database.

Suffering from the endless back and forth to craft a workable AI tool prompt?  Frustrated at having to slog through your AI responses and sources cited to determine what is hallucinated or real?  Are you discouraged by the results when using web search engines like Google or Bing as well?  Then come to this workshop to take control of your search of the internet!  Learn how to use Google Advanced Commands to do efficient, focused searches to get directly to quality r

This session will go through how to get better results using the “Jumbo Search” tool as well as how to easily download a custom list of the articles, books and reports retrieved. Jumbo Search is the main access point to Tufts print and online book collection content, most online journal subscriptions as we as most report content from other databases. While it offers an easy single box search option, refining your search will deliver much better results.