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Mobility Is Coming: Are You Ready?
1st October 2012

In three short years, we've seen organisations make a leap from "not interested" in getting content onto mobile devices for users to "I need to figure this out NOW". But how ready is your organisation to begin deploying mobile content? Robin Neidorf offers some guidelines to help think about what readiness might look like in your organisation.

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FirstRain Launches the Performinator
28th September 2012

FirstRain is one of those rare products that can potentially help users increase their current awareness and productivity, reduce information overload, and streamline their day-to-day processes. With the latest version of the product, users can now take advantage of FirstTweets – precisely selected Tweets on companies, products, competitors and other relevant topics - as well as the FirstRain Performinator. Reviewer Perrin Kerravala take a closer look at the latest developments.

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Getting to the source: Science.gov
27th September 2012

The drive toward government transparency increases the amount of data availability to the public. To facilitate research and organise information, governments are creating more information portals. This article is a review of the underutilised portal Science.gov.

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Free, Useful, Dangerous? Comparative review of Google News, Yahoo! News and Bing News
26th September 2012

Sources like Bing News, Google News and Yahoo! News can readily provide “good enough” information in many situations – getting familiar with a new topic, monitoring mentions of a company, or identifying spikes in news coverage, just to name a few. These advantages can very appealing to individual users and to organisations. But when free news sources are being used within the organisation, some potential liabilities can come into play. A new FreePint Report compares and contrasts the major search engines for business news monitoring and discusses the risks an organisation takes on by using these services.

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Seeking the content niche
25th September 2012

Content of every kind is increasingly becoming available via free channels - and it seems like it's becoming harder for information vendors to figure out what content customers will actually purchase. It seems as if the struggle to find the "content niche" will continue to become even more difficult - yet vendors are rising to the challenge of distinguishing their offerings.

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Share the Value of FreePint Subscription Articles
25th September 2012

The ability to share any article with anyone else in your organisation is one of the newest features of the FreePint Subscription. Learn how easy it is to put practical articles in front of colleagues, to support the value of everyone's work and the contribution of information to your organisation's objectives.

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Source Update 2012: What's happening with online sources?
24th September 2012

Every month, contributing editor Anne Jordan researches changes in the source lists for commonly used aggregators like Factiva and Nexis. Full Source Update articles are included in the FreePint Subscription; this article provides a small taste.

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Convenience and Value
20th September 2012

Current articles in FreePint provide different views into the concept of "convenience" and what we're looking for in information tools and systems. Check out these and other articles and reports via issue 359 of the FreePint Newsletter.

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The "hidden" side of information practice
18th September 2012

We conduct high-value research, and provide analysis and insight. These are the activities we usually talk about when we talk about our work. This editorial provides a view of some of the "hidden" aspects of information management, and the breadth and depth of the impact we can have.

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Workplace integration: the ties that bind
18th September 2012

Getting the right information into the right hands via the right tool is a key to empowering the enterprise. Without the right software, users are condemned to drowning in a tsunami of information and overloaded by uncontrolled data.

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