Leadership Directories Leadership Networks®
25/44 points
Pros: Has detailed bio information and a fairly good data set of entities
Cons: Mapping functionality is poor, expensive
Bottom line: If you’re already using On-line Leadership Directories and find it useful, this is a nice added feature (if they offer it to you for a greatly reduced price) but as a new product, it is too expensive and doesn’t offer donor integration or expanded maps.
Summary:
Leadership Directories has been a staple in many non-profit sectors. It has extremely detailed information in the sectors it covers (from their site):
Leadership Directories, Inc. (LDI) provides high-quality contact information for the leaders of major United States government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations. Our company goal is to research, compile, verify, and produce the most current and accurate contact data available for the institutional leadership of the United States, and offer it to our subscribers in the format that best suits their needs.
Leadership Directories publishes fourteen Yellow Books, each a specialized directory of a particular area of American activity. As a whole, the collection is known as The Leadership Library®, a unique database of nearly a half million leaders at over 40,000 organizations. The information contained in this database is available to our subscribers in print, online, on demand, and as lists or datafeeds. Leadership Directories content may also be accessed through distribution partnerships with select technology and content companies. Changes to The Leadership Library® are verified and updated daily on the Internet by our staff of editors.
While LDI’s directories contain verified and comprehensive information, their mapping tool leaves much to be desired. First, it is expensive: $7,500 for one year. And then, perhaps the largest drawback: the maps only display one degree of connections. Clicking on an entity’s first degree connection does not open up that entity’s connections while keeping your original prospect on the screen. Instead, it treats your interest in that connection as wanting to see its connections – but erases the original prospect! As a result, you never get a full view of 2nd and 3rd degree connections.
The second drawback is that LDI’s model of working in specialized sectors and keeping their human data verification, they are lagging behind in their expansion of data and limited in who is actually in their directory. If this product were free or even under $1,000, I would recommend a look, but for $7,500, it’s not worth it.
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