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Creating information packages that pay - A VIP Editorial
23rd April 2012

I can see why I was asked to offer my views in this issue’s editorial as the products reviewed – Digimind and S&P Capital IQ – are certainly pertinent to the work of the financial regulator I am currently employed by.

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Capital gains: Standard & Poor's Capital IQ
23rd April 2012

The April issue of VIP features a product review of Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ, a web-based research platform for global public and private capital markets.

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Digimind: Competitive intelligence monitoring software with a twist
23rd April 2012

My recent product review of Digimind 9 from Digimind allowed me to test drive a product with which I was not familiar, but one that those who work in marketing intelligence may well know.

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"But what is it you DO?" Getting to simplicity in a complex world
23rd April 2012

New results in the fourth annual economic impact survey suggest normalisation of staffing and budget levels. These levels have required a fundamental change in service delivery. Leveraging cuts to create service enhancements rather than service reductions is one opportunity out of a difficult situation, but it requires information managers to communicate value despite the complexities of their offering.

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Social media market research - can't all have a prize
23rd April 2012

Social media from a consumer angle is the subject of a series of reports from Mintel, which promises to help clients understand more about their customers. It is not alone in offering social media metrics solutions, with Google, Tumblr and others all entering the arena, but can they all succeed?

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What is an information professional?
22nd April 2012

What is the role of the information professional? AIIM believes that certification for individuals is essential to changing the way the business world thinks about enterprise information and IT. Will this accreditation be recognised and hold value by prospective employers? It's worth looking into.

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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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