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Keeping Commercial Awareness Up To Date: FreePint for Professional Services Firms
22nd April 2014
Gillian Mitchell demonstrates how FreePint can help professional services organisations keep their commercial awareness up-to-date as well as keep on top of new products and developments in key issues from compliance to news and social platforms.
FreePint's Recent and Upcoming Content, Community and Consulting
22nd April 2014
We look at recent and upcoming FreePint articles, reports and webinars. Changes in major news aggregators and PR & monitoring brands are under the spotlight. Upcoming Communities of Practice events focus on understanding, communicating and measuring value.
Old Skills in a New Context: Brandwatch Social Media Analysis Software
16th April 2014
Brandwatch is a fast-growing, UK-based company which provides a highly sophisticated social media monitoring and analysis tool. Chris Porter looks at how this new-generation software solution makes use of some very familiar information skills.
FreePint Newsletter 396 published
10th April 2014
Announcement of the publication of FreePint Newsletter 396.
All Shook Up in the World of Media Intelligence
9th April 2014
As two of the world's leading players in media intelligence software (Vocus and Cision) look set to change ownership, Chris Porter examines how this - and changes amongst the smaller players - will affect buyers of media monitoring, media measurement & analysis, and journalist contact management tools.
My Favourite Tipples from a Market Size and Share Specialist
9th April 2014
Chris Porter frequently creates reports on market size and share and competitive dynamics. He shares some of his favourite tipples, especially those relating to hard-to-find revenue information on private companies around the world.
FreePint's Recent and Upcoming Content, Community and Consulting
8th April 2014
We look at recent and upcoming FreePint articles, reports and webinars. Robin Neidorf highlights Community of Practice calls and in-person sessions on topics from technology in law firms to measuring value and changes in the market for news content. Recent consulting projects include training sessions in the field of news delivery, and market mapping of social media monitoring products.
Video Overview of FreePint
4th April 2014
Jody Ridgwell introduces the new FreePint video tour, ideal for those thinking about ordering a FreePint Subscription or for existing users who'd like an orientation to help them make full use of their subscription.
BYOD and the Security Nightmare
4th April 2014
FreePint writers have been commenting on BYOD - Bring Your Own Device - for a couple of years now. But recent developments suggest that it's poised to move into a different league - and the fear, uncertainty and doubt (or FUD) factor means that executives may be ill-prepared to deal with the security and other challenges that the "shadow IT" of mobile device use brings. In more recent articles, FreePint commentators have exposed the limitations of solutions such as Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled (COPE), and showed how the risks sometimes come from unexpected sources, and suggested that many of the changes required are behavioural, not technological.
Social Media in Public Relations Workflow - PR Newswire's Agility Platform
2nd April 2014
PR Newswire's Agility platform aims to help PR professionals to monitor mainstream and social media coverage, identify relevant journalists and other key influencers, communicate with them and track the impact of their communications efforts, all within a single service. It is a fascinating case study of how to integrate traditional and social media monitoring into a very specific user workflow.
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