PEOPLE

CONTENTS:

• ePrairie
• Who2
• Bartleby.com
• Tech's 100 Highest Rollers

EPRAIRIE

If your research leads you to the Midwestern U.S., you may want to visit ePrairie, which bills itself as the leading source of business and technology news and information in Chicago and the greater Midwest. The site features "Today's People," short interviews with people of note. You can search past profiles alphabetically, or by the person's industry. For some reason, they call this "Sort Person Profiles by" but it's really a "Search by" feature.

Click on Career and then on Movers and Shakers for listings of job changes. Archives of Movers and Shakers go back about a month.

The site also provides news, opinion and analysis, discussion boards (read-only for non-members) and brief profiles of selected companies. Navigation is convenient; just click on the topic you want on the black bar across the top of every page.

http://www.eprairie.com/people/

WHO2

For info on people from Kirsten Dunst to George W. Bush to Puffy Combs, check out Who2, which provides brief stats (birth/death) on well-known people, as well as links to profiles and more information on other sites. Who2's stated aim is to be cheerful and smart, and to be the fastest way to find famous people online.

You can browse alphabetically or find more background on selected "People in the News."

This is certainly a fast, clean Web site, but be careful not to be sidetracked by the "Who Loops," interesting facts about celebrities that probably would not closely relate to your prospecting duties.

http://www.who2.com/

BARTLEBY.COM

This site began as a personal research experiment in 1993. It published the first classic book on the Web (Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass) and now bills itself as the preeminent electronic publishing enterprise of the 21st century. Stop by to read poetry, literature or nonfiction, or search the Columbia Encyclopedia, Roget's Thesaurus, Bartletts' Quotations, the King James Bible, Robert's Rules of Order, Post's Etiquette or many more reference sources.

For profiles of more than 17,000 famous people from the Columbia Encyclopedia, go to Bartleby's index to biographical entries, where you can search categories including law, architecture, motion pictures and space. Many of the entries are historical (i.e., no longer living), but you will be able to find some living prospects in these pages.

http://www.bartleby.com/65/a0.html

TECH'S 100 HIGHEST ROLLERS

We steered you toward the Forbes People Tracker last month; this month, we send you back for a look at the top names in the world of high tech. Given the recent downturn in the stock market, you may be worried about folks like Bill Gates' net worth. But don't fret. Bill is still at the top of the list, though he is $38.3 billion poorer.

The article provides net worth assessments, brief financial updates, plus links to other profiles and related Web sites.

http://www.forbes.com/asap/2001/0402/078.html

Pam Patton