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Community of Practice: Mobile Deployment in the Enterprise
10th January 2013

FreePint's Director of Research announces the launch of our first Community of Practice, focusing on the challenges and opportunities of mobile deployment of content in the enterprise. Using a blend of learning materials, distance learning principles and peer-to-peer education, this first CoP can be a valuable tool for your 2013 strategic initiatives.

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Busy Wrap-Up, Busy New Year
9th January 2013

The final two reports published in 2012 provide original insight into both buyer needs and market players for news content. New FreePint Articles highlight significant M&A activity, tips on data discovery and unique value of unexpected tools. And coming in January are new formats for product reviews and the opportunity to join a curriculum-based Community of Practice on Mobile Deployment.

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Intranet Report and More New Insight, Just In Time for 2013
8th January 2013

Get an update on the latest reports and articles to support information practice, and welcome to a fresh new year.

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Interesting Times Ahead for Intranet Managers
8th January 2013

Over the last few months FreePint has published a wide array of articles on the subject of intranets. James Mullan identifies the key trends in the editorials, from collaboration to content creation, big data and findability. He highlights some of the articles which discuss implementation and best practice in use of collaborative tools and, finally, he ponders which tool will be the "big thing" for intranets in 2013.

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Power Through Disparate Datasets with Discovery Interfaces
8th January 2013

Jonathan Jacobsen explains the lure of resource discovery interfaces for cultural collections researchers and others. He explores why functions such as faceted browsing and suggestions of related resources, together with the ability to search multiple datasets from one interface, make discovery interfaces one of the hottest trends in web-based search.

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News Needs and Preferences: 2012 Results
24th December 2012

Now in its fifth year, FreePint's Survey on News Needs and Preferences gathers input from corporate information managers about news content within their portfolios and on the desktops (and mobile devices) in their organisations. This year's results demonstrate continued tension between free and fee services, increasing interest in mobile delivery, and attempts to balance carefully cost, content, features, risk and ease of use.

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Winding Up the Year
20th December 2012

Customer-favourite reports are now published, with more to come. New options for purchasing one-off reports are now available. And FreePint invites your feedback while we tackle some newsletter enhancements before 2013 begins.

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The Latest News on News
18th December 2012

With the recent publication of our review of Factiva.com, the number of in-depth reports on news products published in 2012 comes to six. Director of Research Robin Neidorf reflects on the continuing importance of this competitive and dynamic content category and asks for suggestions for improving FreePint's coverage of this category in 2013.

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Comparative Report on News Products
17th December 2012

FreePint regularly reviews news content products and news aggregators. We then conduct an analysis of those reviews on an annual basis, to demonstrate how the different providers line up with one another across such criteria as source coverage, search capabilities, reporting and outputs and special features.

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Can Factiva.com Follow the Major Steps it Made in 2011?
12th December 2012

2011 saw a significant step forward in the evolution of Factiva.com including the launch of an iPad application and the addition of 19 million company profiles. Andrew Grave investigates whether Factiva has been able to maintain the momentum in 2012.

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