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For Maximum Visibility Keep Information Brief and Relevant
17th March 2015

Britt Mueller provides some tips to help ensure that information deliverables are actively used and valued. She also highlights the importance of tracking usage metrics and user behaviour.

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Subscription Update for Professional Services
16th March 2015

Professional services firms make up a significant portion of FreePint's customer base. We work closely with our customers in this industry to produce resources that speak to their broad-based content requirements and particular needs for information strategy, procurement, skill development and collaboration with other parts of their businesses. Here we highlight recent and upcoming items from FreePint's Content, Community and Consulting.

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Proud to Partner with Cycling for Libraries 2015
13th March 2015

FreePint is proud to sponsor the 2015 Cycling for Libraries event. Discussions and networking around the changing activities of libraries in a fresh new setting, the New Nordic tour, September 2015.

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A Different Kind of Conference, a Different Kind of Community
13th March 2015

Ann-Christin Karlen, a law librarian from Gothenburg, Sweden, shares her experiences of the Cycling for Libraries event and explains why you should consider participating in this year's tour from Oslo to Aarhus in September.

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Identifying the Real Problems with Search
13th March 2015

Sally Roberts explains how to identify the real problems users face when searching and looks at two main types of search: recovery, where the user knows specifically what they are looking for; and discovery, where the search is aimed at finding information on a particular topic.

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Listening and Lurking - Identifying Business Problems in Need of Information Solutions
13th March 2015

With lean staffing in many organisations and less time for face-to-face discussions, information managers are testing alternative ways to interact with their target audience. Jan Sykes discusses how lurking in online communities and social networks can be a helpful means of learning about issues relevant to co-workers and associates. Lurking and listening are viewed as a part of a more comprehensive strategy for managing social media content along with other information resources.

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PatBase - Patent Information at Your Fingertips
12th March 2015

Following her review Robyn Smith selects some of the highlights of global patent database, Minesoft PatBase, and looks at why it is worthy to compete with some of the big firms' offerings.

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Surfacing Information and Avoiding Visibility Sins
12th March 2015

The latest articles and Q&As published in the Topic Series "Making Information Visible" are under co-producer James Mullan's scrutiny along with his highlights of items to be published which look at areas such as external tools to improve information visibility and ways to improve users' search experience.

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From Taxonomy to Visualisation... the NewsEdge Way
11th March 2015

Chris Porter considers the connections between taxonomy and visualisation, with particular reference to Acquire Media's news management and delivery tool, NewsEdge.com.

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Efficient and Effective Legal Research in the Era of Apps
6th March 2015

Reed Smith's national manager of research services, John DiGilio, looks at the growth of mobile applications for conducting legal research and introduces the key apps of the moment and the criteria by which they will be reviewed.

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