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FreePint, Free Range: Live Events this Winter
5th December 2013
FreePint's Community of Practice sessions will next year be available in-person, with events upcoming in London and New York in January and Chicago and Minneapolis in February. Sessions allow FreePint Subscribers to connect in real time with peers around critical topics like changes in news aggregation, mobile content security, and the value of content investments.
Input from the FreePint Sounding Board
4th December 2013
FreePint's "sounding board" of information managers representing the full range of customers by industry, geography and professional industry has helped to firm up FreePint's editorial plans for the coming months. Upcoming Topic Series include The Social Enterprise; International Copyright; Licensing, Pricing & Negotiation; Next-Gen Competitive Intelligence; and Elearning for Information Skills.
In-Person Communities of Practice Coming in January and February
4th December 2013
The opportunity to discuss key challenges and issues in a confidential environment with peers across other industries offers great possibilities for thinking differently about working practices, technologies implemented and plans for the future. FreePint's Communities of Practice now offer those opportunities in-person as well as in teleconference. Four in-person sessions are running in January and February 2014, covering critical issues around the future of news delivery in your organisation, such as understanding and measuring return on investment in news, and how best to educate senior executives on content distribution and cloud storage of news resources.
Silobreaker Premium: Encompassing Aggregation, Collaboration and Knowledge Management
4th December 2013
Penny Crossland looks at the latest release of Silobreaker Premium, the well-established open source intelligence tool. Like its competitors, over the past year it has developed enhanced workflow and collaboration features. New customisation and reporting functions have made this an excellent monitoring tool and a workflow tool for the enterprise. As well as providing around 300,000 news items a day, it also offers unique content in the form of fact sheets on companies and individuals.
Integration and Improvement on the News Aggregation Menu
3rd December 2013
Series producer Andrew Grave looks at how the FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation helps professionals to keep up with changes in the news aggregation marketplace, whether it's an evolution due to product enhancements, changing user demands or updated supplier strategy. Interviews with leading vendors such as Comintelli and Factiva, combined with product reviews from NewsEdge to SinglePoint are complemented by practical advice. "How to" articles range from what to look for when shortlisting your news aggregation supplier to understanding how best to keep staff up-to-date with current awareness.
Extract More Meaning with a Northern Light SinglePoint Strategic Research Portal
3rd December 2013
A Northern Light SinglePoint strategic research portal can aggregate a company's entire market research, both internal and external, and can be customised to deliver timely and accurate information to specific user groups. Sophie Alexander finds SinglePoint an easy-to-use portal containing a wealth of useful and focused research content for market and competitive intelligence staff, sales teams, marketing and purchasing managers, executives and more.
Sophisticated News Search from Nexis
27th November 2013
The recently-introduced News Search option from Nexis® (known as Nexis.com in the US) allows even a novice searcher to create a sophisticated search whilst still maintaining the flexibility to satisfy a power user, finds researcher Anne Lonergan. Nexis is a comprehensive global business information research tool, providing access to thousands of sources via one interface, including business and financial news; company, biographical and industry intelligence; trade journal and market research materials; legal and regulatory records; and social media content.
FirstRain: a New Way to Consume News
26th November 2013
FirstRain is an analytics company based in Silicon Valley which delivers targeted intelligence on businesses, industries and executives. Following her recent Mini Review, Perrin Kerravala suggests that FirstRain can offer an alternative to the Big Three news content providers. A web and social content aggregator, the platform uses big data analytics to give users a window into the business web.
Tracking Changing News Needs through FreePint
21st November 2013
As user requirements change and news aggregation vendors introduce product enhancements, Robin Neidorf asks: what is the real need for delivering news content into the organisation, now and into the future? Is it better to treat corporate users as one group or to separate them into those who're happy with "light, summary-type news" and those for whom "deep, multilingual, probably premium-priced" options are essential? FreePint's Community of Practice calls present an ideal arena in which to discuss such issues with peers across the industry.
Beyond Aggregation: Vendors Continue to Innovate
20th November 2013
As the FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation continues, series producer Andrew Grave takes a look at the how some of the aggregators continue to innovate against the backdrop of the changes with Factiva and DJX. He looks at product developments in Eureka.cc, Meltwater Buzz and Newsdesk with new options now available for social media monitoring, collaboration and current awareness.
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