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Mutual Negotiation Success for Information Professionals and Salespeople
19th March 2014
The process of purchasing information products and services can be a complex one. Michael Gruenberg, author of the book "Buying and Selling Information", illustrates how information professionals and the vendors who supply them can move towards a more successful sales and ongoing customer relationship.
Engage121 - Bringing Order to the Social Media World
17th March 2014
The world of social media throws up many challenges, especially for large consumer-facing organisations. Engage121 is a social media management tool with some fascinating features to help users respond to comments and proactively engage in conversations, including at a very local level, in an efficient and consistent manner.
FreePint Subscription: Consulting Clarified
14th March 2014
FreePint Subscribers at Enterprise level benefit from six hours of consulting time per year. Robin Neidorf gives examples of how customers have used the time from information audits to private briefings and market studies.
Concluding the FreePint Topic Series: The Social Enterprise
13th March 2014
As the FreePint Topic Series: The Social Enterprise concludes, James Mullan, co-producer of the series, takes a look back at some of the articles that have appeared and themes covered from governance and ownership to implementation tips, choice of platform and best practice in use of social features.
Piloting SharePoint 2013 at the UK's National Audit Office
13th March 2014
In a case study on the National Audit Office's introduction of SharePoint 2013, Sarah Dillingham interviews the NAO's intranet manager, Patrick Callaghan, to find out how the organisation is encouraging SharePoint's adoption through early adopters and targeted training sessions.
Find What You Value in FreePint
12th March 2014
FreePint continues its focus on the value offered by its own collection and on the ROI offered by the information products from vendors across the gamut of industries and organisations. Robin Neidorf looks at how FreePint signposts content through the blog pieces, Series and product reviews - and how these sources of information are complemented by regular Webinars and Community of Practice sessions.
My Favourite Tipples from an Independent Information Professional
12th March 2014
Jan Knight is an independent information professional who works across a diverse range of industries. She shares her favourite tipples.
FreePint Webinar/CoP Registration now Centralised with Eventbrite
11th March 2014
You can now register for FreePint Webinars and Community of Practice (CoP) teleconferences and in-person sessions through FreePint's new Eventbrite page.
Structure, Visibility & Measurement: Linking Social to Business Processes
10th March 2014
Social enterprise efforts have sceptics - and sometimes for good reason. Whilst social collaboration has important qualitative use cases, some executives struggle to see how social tools can fit into existing business processes. Social by nature is unstructured, but bringing social behaviour into a structured process could provide visibility, enable process improvements and allow you to capture all actions - down to the tiniest step to see real-time analytics.
Harness Multilingual Resources for Research
10th March 2014
Global commerce now demands that organisations have multilingual capabilities, including access to content and translation tools. Perrin Kerravala discusses how organisations can leverage FreePint to find the best multilingual content providers and translation products.
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