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With over 400,000,000 members, LinkedIn is one way to find industry stakeholders.  The Premium membership offers access to the personal profiles of LinkedIn members that are blocked in the free membership.  There is a free trial available which you will see linked at the top right of the landing page, http://www.linkedin.com. 

With a bit of work, you may be able to find more information on the people whose profiles are behind the pay wall without paying.

To search for industry professionals:

1. Go to http://www.linkedin.com.
2. Using the search box at the top left, enter keyword(s), e.g. hospitals and health care.
3. At the next screen, toward the top, you'll see options for filtering your results by geography, connection, industry, etc.

Some profiles will be available for viewing and others will be behind a pay wall.  You can try a couple of different methods to find more information.

1. Do a Google search on the position title and organization if given.
2. Do a Google Images search on the profile picture if available:
   1. Right-click and choose "save image as" and save it to your desktop.
   2. Go to http://images.google.com, click on the camera icon, choose "Upload an image".
   3. Once image is uploaded, you can add descriptive terms if needed to narrow your search.
   4. Cross your fingers!

Trade associations, trade journals, and consultants may be able to provide names of people to interview or be willing to talk.  You can use two resources via the Libraries, NetAdvantage and IBISWorld.  Reference Solutions is available via Daniel Boone Regional Library (Columbia Public).  You will need a library card from them to access it.