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Saturday, 25th April 2009

Best of RS: A Compilation of Upcoming Event Lists, News Planning Guides, and Calendars

News Planning
+ BBC Monitoring: The Week Ahead
"Lists key political and economic events expected to take place over a period of 10 days and is a valuable tool for planning."
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+ APTN (AP Television) Editorial Calendar
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+ NewsAhead
A free preview provides a list of upcoming events (1-2 weeks). A fee-based database containing events up to one year out is also available. The Profile Group is another U.K. based company offering numerous resources (fee-based).
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+ Key Dates: Future Coverage Opportunities (via Ascribe)
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Government, Politics, and Elections
+ World Events Calendar
From the Council on Foreign Relations.
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+ U.S. State Department: Public Diplomacy Calendar
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+ Upcoming Elections Around the World
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+ Major Futures Compilation (via ABC's The Note)
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Academic Events
+ MInd: The Meetings Index
"Most listings are for conferences, congresses, meetings and symposia that eventually will result in published proceedings."
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+ Conference Alerts
"...constantly updated database of conferences..."
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Science
+ Space Calendar
From NASA.
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Business
+ TSNN.Com
Searchable database of trade shows. Global coverage.
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Various Categories
+ Whatsonwhen.Com
Searchable database for events, festivals, etc. Global in scope. Here's a review of WhatsonWhen that we wrote for SearchDay.
+ Festivals.Com
From the site..."largest resource on the Internet for information about community festivals, fairs and special events. With more than 40,000 community events worldwide."

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