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Open data utopia? Not quite.
20th April 2012

Although limited within the scientific community, open data in the public sector is growing with government requirements for content transparency. The concept of smart cities can also benefit from open data in areas such as policing and crime. Privacy will always remain an issue, however.

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Search me!
20th April 2012

Is Googling for your answers still the best option? Blekko's 3 engine monte lets you enter your search terms and provides unattributed search results from Google, Bing and Blekko. You can decide the best for yourself, and then reveal who returned the answers. Google's dominance may annoy but it does provide some impressive products.

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Collaboration can be hard to define
20th April 2012

What does collaboration mean to you? Does it mean sharing documents with colleagues and collaborating on them? Collaboration should be about people working together to develop a common approach to situations and devising tactics and strategies that help them move forward.

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Making big things happen with "big data"
19th April 2012

Big data is, if you will excuse the pun, big at the moment and would appear to be the IT buzzword for 2012. But what is big data and what are some of the opportunities for information professionals that are provided by "big data"?

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"We're behind the curve"... but so is everyone else
18th April 2012

Organisations are suddenly focused on getting content onto their workers' mobile devices. Recent FreePint Research demonstrates a lot of activity around pilot projects... so why do so many organisations think that because they only have a pilot project they are "behind the curve"? Get real, research-based perspective by participating in Benchmarking on Mobile Deployment.

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Semantics questions
18th April 2012

Ever ask someone to clarify something they've just said and, instead of rephrasing, they repeat the same thing, only louder? It's like bellowing blather at the blind and blaming them for not getting the picture.

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Supporting Information Strategy
18th April 2012

Information strategists can use FreePint Family resources to gain insight on the many interrelated areas that affect the value of information in their organisations.

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Helping Corporate Libraries
18th April 2012

Corporate librarians can get value from nearly everything FreePint produces. Tell us what you are working on, and we'll help you find exactly what you need.

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Hard and tricky work: information mining
17th April 2012

Data and text mining techniques are used for analysing competitor behaviours and workflows as well as customer and market needs. These methods could also be used for open access, however, the full potential is not being realised as data is limited, there is no established user community and there are licensing issues.

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Sense-making and information recombination - a FUMSI Editorial
17th April 2012

The world runs on information flow. Money is information, products contain information – the most complex and sophisticated products can be broken down into basic materials assembled through application of knowledge and information to create novel and unexpected solutions.

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