SURVEY SAYS: Web Site Results

January 11, 2001 - It doesn't seem to matter how much time you spend on the Web - the reader-respondents to yesterday's survey contributed a few sites that we hadn't stumbled across (yet). The diversity of readers and workers made tabulation a bit of a challenge - but we were gratified to find www.PlanSponsor.com a popular response, and we're sure http://www.benefitslink.com Dave Baker will be similarly gratified at the well-deserved frequency of citation of his site. Others frequently cited included www.ebri.org (employee benefits research institute), http://www.shrm.org (society of human resource management), http://www.freeerisa.com and www.morningstar.com .

If you’ve got an interest in employer stock, stock options or stock purchase plans, you might want to check out: www.mystockoptions.com , http://www.naspp.com (national association of stock purchase plan professionals) or www.mycriticalcapital.com . One reader suggested www.oanda.com , a source of FX information, while another offered http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/xr/ .

Readers made frequent use of search engines, including www.ask.com , www.google.com , www.yahoo.com , and www.ragingsearch.com .

Several cited the DOL ( www.dol.gov ) and IRS sites (and don’t forget the new cross-agency search engine, http://www.firstgov.gov/ ).

Readers gleaned market/stock information from http://www.smartmoney.com , www.cnn.com , www.bloomberg.com , www.ceoexpress.com , www.moneycentral.com and www.finance.yahoo.com .

Looking for a lost participant (or school chum)? Readers suggested www.theultimates.com/white/ , www.switchboard.com , while directionally challenged ones noted http://www.mapquest.com and www.maps.yahoo.com .

A little off the beaten path perhaps were: www.badpuns.com , www.bored.com , www.do-not-sleep.com , www.ishouldbeworking.com .

Check ’em out folks – once again, thanks to all who participated in our survey!

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