FreePint Subscription Update - What's New and What's Coming
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By Catherine Dhanjal

Abstract

Find out what's new and upcoming in FreePint's Content, Community, and Consulting - including articles on media monitoring mergers, reviews of company information and data cleansing products, plus webinars on subjects from outsourcing Know Your Customer requirements to technology to support business strategy, and an update on FreePint's Community of Practice and consulting services.

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Content (Articles, Reports and Webinars)

Nexis Analyser offers Nexis customers new ways to interact with and visualise results; our Mini Review explores these features for you.

If you rely on one of the more comprehensive media monitoring tools - Cision or Vocus - you'll be watching carefully the movements towards merger. Our contributing editor following the story offers his latest commentary on those merger plans and how they may affect the market.

We've published a full review of Factiva's Companies & Executives, a preferred product for many organisations with information-intensive sales and business development needs. 

But there are different approaches to meeting those needs: with NetProspex Workbench, the focus is on cleaning and enhancing your internal data. Our reviewer's analysis of the value and competitive position of NetProspex Workbench gives the offering high marks for flexibility, focus and understanding the real-world workflow needs of its target audience.

NetProspex relies in some part on a crowdsourced data collection model for contact data. Owler applies crowdsourcing to company information, as explained in our just-published Mini Review. Free access to Owler offers researchers basic information on companies, competitors, CEOs and other key staff.

Crowdsourcing as a data model has been on our minds lately, and we've commissioned a set of articles that explores use cases and validity of crowdsourcing. Watch for those in the coming weeks.

Meanwhile, we've announced additional upcoming FreePint Webinars;

• Can You Outsource KYC?: the final instalment of the FreePint Topic Series: What You Need to Know Your Customer, providing practical guidance on starting out or improving your outsourced relationships

• Is Our Need for News What it Used to Be?: part of the just-launched FreePint Topic Series: News, and Beyond; hear from information managers at global organisations regarding new ways of thinking about, sourcing and distributing news content

• Technology to Support Business Strategy: there's always new technology introduced for knowledge management, collaboration, seamless access... but which are most strategic to YOUR organisation's needs? We'll help you create a framework for improving your advisory role.

Community

Communities of Practice in the FreePint Topic Series: News, and Beyond provide both in-person and teleconference opportunities to work on key issues:

• When, how and why organisations are splitting their needs for current awareness away from those for in-depth research
• How to manage, evaluate and work with suppliers in this new environment
• What "value" means for these use cases.

Our London session is already full, but seats remain in Amsterdam, and we've only just listed the New York session, so make your reservations now. If you can't make it to one of our currently scheduled in-person sessions, we're also offering three teleconference CoPs in the series - check out the Community page for more information.

Consulting

Our director of research, Robin Neidorf, recently spoke at the Industrial Technical Information Managers Group (ITIMG) on "Making the Case to the C-Suite... and Getting Their Attention in the First Place". This same topic has come up in several customer conversations lately, and we are working on one exploratory project to try to understand the variables that help information managers connect with this critical group of stakeholders.

As always, consulting comes off the back of research, speaking and interactions; and from consulting come articles and webinars. Your suggestions support the development of content, community and consulting that make a difference for you.

Editor's Note

Find out more about a FreePint Subscription, which at the Content level gives access to all FreePint articles, reports and webinars, at the Community level gives access to all FreePint Communities of Practice (as well as all FreePint Content), and at the Consulting level adds a credit for up to six hours of annual consulting time. Find out more.

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