Virtual Conference Centre
http://www.mcb.co.uk/services/conferen/welcome.html
A springboard to peer-reviewed online forums. Archival files of existing papers and threaded comments are readily accessible and displayed.

Asia Pacific Management Forum
http://www.apmforum.com
Postings often focus on management issues including regional styles of business interactions, online marketing, strategic alliances, and invest- ment opportunities.

@BRINT.com
http://www.brint.com
Promotes online forums focusing on several cutting-edge business issues. For example, the Knowledge Management Think Tank covers knowledge management and intellectual capital.

Corporate Governance
http://www.corpgov.net/forums/forum.html
Several communication options are available for opinion forums including bulletin board postings, commentaries, essays, and interactive messaging with prominent practitioners.

Delphi Forums
http://www.delphi.com/
Among the wealth of searchable category options are Business/Finance, Civic/Government, Companies, Computers, Current Events, Education, Internet & Web, Motor Transport, Science & Space, and Travel & Places.

Topica
http://www.topica.com
This site offers public access to a wealth of email list options, facilitates subscribing to lists, and enables list hosting.

Rivendell International Communications
http://rivendel.com/~ric/resources/dictionary.html
Centralizes links to multilingual and single-language dictionaries. Some site connections include: free online language courses, discussion forums, and translation servers.

Web of Online Dictionaries
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Rapid access to hundreds of dictionaries spanning more than 175 different languages and dialects ranging from Afrikaans to Zulu.

Thomas Register
http://www.thomasregister.com
Internet version of the directory of U.S. and Canadian manufacturers and distributors. Summary information associates thousands of company profiles with products, services, and brand names.

ElectricalSearch
http://www.electricalsearch.com
Focuses attention on the electrical marketplace and strives to provide comprehensive, unbiased facilitated search, retrieval, and connectivity to hundreds of subject-pertinent resources.

Consumer Reports Online
http://www.ConsumerReports.org
Provides sentinel role for product reliability including safety alert reports, product recall warnings, and online procurement information.

iPing
http://www.iPing.com
Using Internet telephony, the following services are freely available: Mr. Wakeup, Ms. Reminder, Mr. Notify, Ms. Follow-up, Dr..Dose, and Mr.Dollar.

Supply Chain Superlinks
http://www.goidata.com.au
Over 100 different descriptor categories such as application software associations, industry statistics, job search, performance measurement, reference library, and world best practices.

IT Toolbox Portal for SCM
http://scm.ittoolbox.com
One of several enterprise resources now provided by Information Technology Toolbox, Inc. E-business and Enterprise Application Integration are examples of others.

Best Manufacturing Practices (BMP)
http://www.bmpcoe.org
The U.S. Office of Naval Research promotes sharing of relevant information and lessons learned among industry, government, and academia.

The Supply Chain Organization
http://www.supply-chain.org.uk
Includes links to full-text journal articles in Supply Chain Management Review, Journal of Supply Chain Management, and Supply Chain Management, among others.

MSU Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management
http://www.bus.msu.edu/msc/scm
Provides links to periodicals, professional associations, career services, and international business websites, as well as to the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency.

A Millers Falls Page
http://www.public.coe.edu/~rroeder/mf.html
This site offers hand-powered woodworking tool enthusiasts a vivid recounting of the North American retail hardware industry.

Badger Pond
http://www.wwforum.com/index.html
This site features links to over 600 resources including discussion forums, equipment reviews, guilds, museums, publications, retailers, software, and schools.

Do It Best Corp.
http://doitbest.com
This hardware cooperative affords more than 4400 independent tool retailers facilitated eBusiness transactions, as well as other marketing advantages usually enjoyed by large company-owned chains.

Georgesbasement
http://www.georgesbasement.com
Shares resourceful theories and techniques for preserving antique instruments, as well as demonstrating ways to convert defunct old implements into once again useful tools.

Hand Tools Institute
http://www.hti.org
This is the trade association site for North American nonpowered tools and tool boxes. It serves as a portal to channels focusing on related industry associations, market data resources, occupational safety links, and standards information.

Hoovers Online Industry Snapshots
http://www.hoovers.com/industry/archive/0,2048,169,00.html
This site has many industry snapshots, for example, the Machinery & Tools Industry overview tells the story from both historical and management perspectives.

NASA Tech Briefs
http://www.nasatech.com/about.html
Here, domestic and international NASA partner- contractors can report to industry newly developed commercially useful products that have resulted from applied scientific endeavors.

Oldtools Archives
http://www.egroups.com/messages/oldtools
Archives informative and technical oldtools email listserv postings. Searching by subject threads and author is facilitated at this heavily trafficked site.