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Why you are global, even if you do not think you are
31st May 2012

If you're planning your marketing on a regional basis, you might be missing out on valuable opportunities at the global level. We often hear from sponsors that they want a digital mailing list that reaches one country or continent... but is that truly serving their goals?

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China trumps in scientific publishing?
31st May 2012

At the Online Information conference, in December 2011, I reported on the flurry of discussions, influences and markers that China seemed to be having in the world of scientific publishing.

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Studying the Financial Times' MBA Newslines
30th May 2012

The Financial Times (FT) recently introduced a new service called MBA Newslines as a bolt-on to the FT website content. Newslines provides the ability to annotate any article and any number of articles from the FT's entire content offering. That’s a lot of content and opens up a potentially unlimited resource for commentary, debate and analysis of current business issues.

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People - we need your big data
30th May 2012

The McKinsey Global Institute reports that if the US healthcare system were to use big data creatively the result would be a $300 billion value every year. So what about people information or patient derived information? Surely this is a huge missing chunk of big data that is also floating around in the digital information world.

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Creating an automatic social network
30th May 2012

We all know how well social networks work when individuals are sharing content with their friends and to some extent peers within the sector they work in. You only have to look at the success of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to see the evidence. However internal or enterprise social networks haven't had the same success, a new way of sharing content could be about to change that.

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Cookies - who will be the first to be clobbered?
30th May 2012

Cookie compliance day – the introduction in the United Kingdom of regulations requiring all website owners to ask users actively to opt into the use of cookies – has come and gone, and there’s still plenty of evidence that neither companies nor public bodies are ready yet. What consequences should they fear – and do users actually care?

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Competitive Intelligence - a FUMSI Editorial
29th May 2012

Competitive intelligence draws on the insights developed from gathering a wide range of factual information and sentiment reporting, together with knowledge and inferences built through an understanding of what makes your competitors, your industry regulators and your consumers tick.

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Infrastructure project research - a look at some niche tools
29th May 2012

Governments are looking to infrastructure projects to grow during recession. How can infrastructure practitioners keep up to speed on market developments? We review three key products: IJ online, Inspiratia and Infra News.

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Future intranets
28th May 2012

What will the intranet of the future look like? It's hard to know for certain but most people agree that the intranets of the future will be social, which involves having more and more social tools integrated into them. But is this the only way intranets are heading? Not necessarily.

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Quilting big data threads
24th May 2012

Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.

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