A FreePint Year in Review
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By Robin Neidorf

Abstract

FreePint reflects on content published in 2014 and how the business has made a difference to readers and customers over the last year.

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With the new year flow of work starting to feel "normal" again, we've reflected on FreePint's activity for the past 12 months.

How has our business grown, and what difference did we make for readers and customers in 2014?

Subscription Enhancements

During the year we did a lot of development work on the FreePint Subscription:

• We renamed the three levels to "Content", "Community" and "Consulting", to make it clearer what's included in each level

• Webinars are now part of the Subscription

• We improved article sharing , enhanced our product views , and have standardised on the name "Subscription Update" for all Subscriber communications

... and we've just published a brand new video overview of FreePint.

A big thank you to all the CoP hosts, all of whom are Subscription customers, who enabled us to run in-person CoP events in New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, London and Amsterdam.

Subscription Resources

2014 FreePint Subscription by the numbers:

• 378: Articles published
• 49: Reports published
• 16: Webinars run
• 19: Communities of Practice sessions run

The most popular Subscription Articles were:

1. Lex Fenwick Leaves Dow Jones; What's Next on the Factiva Rollercoaster?
2. Q&A with Dow Jones - Part 1: What to Expect from Factiva
3. Social Media Monitoring: the Options
4. Mini Review: Manzama
5. Turn Your Insights into Action with the Latest Tools for CI Communication

... and the following Subscription Reports had the highest download rates:

1. Product Review of Avention
2. Next-Generation Competitive Intelligence
3. Market Research Using Pay As You Go Online Sources

[Items published earlier in the year will have a higher usage than those published later.]

Topics and Reach

We published 247 items to the FreePint Blog, and the Topic Categories with the most new content in 2014 were:

1. Information services management
2. Information purchasing
3. Collaborative and social tools
4. News sources
5. Information strategy

What's Ahead?

We continue to invest in expanding our coverage, developing webinars and CoP sessions, and aligning our resources with the areas that customers tell us are mission-critical.

Stay informed by registering to receive the FreePint Newsletter, our twice-monthly update. If you find it useful, please share it with a colleague.

And if you have input on what would help FreePint be more strategic and useful to you in 2015, please contact us with your suggestions.

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