Here’s Why You’re the Go-To Answer Person in Your Organization …
Because you regularly supply needed information—sometimes before your users even realize they need it. That’s the value of online publishing resources like LexisNexis Publisher.
But before you can push out the must-have news, you have to monitor the right topics.
So … how do you choose your alert topics?
Do you wait for an information request on a topic?
Do your library customers—especially your C-suite—even know what you’re capable of tracking?
Be proactive. Review the possibilities with your management. For example, do they know you can set up LexisNexis Alerts on:
The Businesses (and People) That Matter Most to Your Organization
Whether it’s a competitor, partner, supplier/vendor, or even a potential takeover target, you have to know the latest news. Depending on the source you select, you can find insolvency/bankruptcy issues; recent patent and trademark filings, current SEC filings, company news releases, product launches, advertising/marketing strategies, current litigation and much more.
Industry Executive Changes and Appointments
Indexing terms (LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™ terms) make this Alert search much easier, for example:
SEARCH: TERMS(executive moves) AND automotive
Need more information on LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology terms—how to use them, where to look them up, what sources have them? Check out the LexisNexis SmartIndexing Resource Center on the LexisNexis InfoPro Web site.
Industry Trends
Couldn’t be easier. Go to the Industry Alerts box on your nexis.com Power Search form. Track up to 20 industries via industry reports, including Hoover’s Industry Snapshots and Standard & Poor’s Current Environment Reports. Just click the Create Alert link. Select an industry from the hierarchy.
Or create a specific search in specific news sources. LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology terms can help. For example, monitor an evolving industry, e.g.: SEARCH: TERMS(electric vehicle)
Legislative and/or Regulatory Changes
See what’s happening in the U.S. Congress, state legislatures and U.S. and state administrative agencies on any vital topic, e.g.:
SEARCH: pension plans
Products and Services
What’s the media—trade as well as general news—saying about your company’s products and services? For example:
SEARCH: disability insurance
LexisNexis Alerts: Flexible Delivery Options
- View results online or have them delivered via e-mail.
- Deliver updates in a variety of formats, such as inline as TXT (perfect for wireless handheld devices), HTML or as an attachment in PDF, Word, RTF or HTML.
- Choose an Alert schedule that fits the topic—up to three times a day for breaking news. Or get updates daily (or business days), weekly or monthly. Even choose a manual, on-demand alert.
- Sometimes no news is the news you need. Set up a Nexis Alert from a “zero results set.” And, on the Alert set-up screen, you can request “no new results” notifications to keep you in the know.
- Request an Alert from search results—or from a search in your History log. (From your search results, just click the clock icon at the top of your screen.)
- Save a natural-language search request for Alert update and adjust the number of documents in your results by relevance. (If you choose “Show fewer documents,” your results will contain documents strongly related to your search terms.)
