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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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The fallacy of information overload
23rd May 2012

A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?

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Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure?
23rd May 2012

Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.

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Marketing is education; education is marketing
22nd May 2012

All marketing is a form of education. Many vendors have found that a reuse license for a VIP review of their products provides them with a flexible, powerful education and marketing tool, effective for meeting the needs of a range of audiences and goals.

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Newsdesk: tracking millions of pieces of information a day
22nd May 2012

What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?

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Alacra Compliance adds managerial oversight
22nd May 2012

Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).

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Time to sharpen your information tools - A VIP Editorial
22nd May 2012

I recently completed a major house renovation project, so my mind has been occupied with building matters over the last few months. In the midst all the financial pain and stressful disruption, I found some interesting parallels with my “day job” as a researcher.

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