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FreePint Subscription Update: What's New and What's Coming
2nd June 2014

Find out what's new and upcoming in FreePint's Content, Community, and Consulting - including interviews with Dow Jones, perspectives on the "right to be forgotten" ECJ ruling, and webinars and CoP sessions on understanding and measuring value.

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Collecting, Analysing and Communicating your Insights for Competitive Intelligence
2nd June 2014

Sophie Alexander highlights key articles from the recently launched FreePint Topic Series: Next-Generation Competitive Intelligence. From data collection and analysis to communicating your insights, these insightful articles highlight practical tips and online tools to make you a more effective competitive intelligence professional, regardless of your industry.

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The Latest Visualisation Techniques Should Be Part of the CI Professional's Toolbox
30th May 2014

Competitive intelligence by its nature requires the presentation of new and complex ideas to audiences that are not necessarily predisposed to hear them. Wayne Jones explains how the latest visualisation tools and techniques can help your ideas get through to your audience.

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Knowledge.Works: Secure Single Intelligence Repository
29th May 2014

Knowledge.Works from Cipher Systems acts as a single information repository for all content related to competitive or business intelligence collection and analysis. It supports all phases of the intelligence cycle from data collection, aggregation, indexing, searching, analysis, reporting and collaboration. With much of its functionality updated since the last FreePint review in 2010, this product could help save an organisation time and money by automating the more time-consuming efforts of research analysts.

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The Importance of an Early Warning Primary CI Network
27th May 2014

A reliable primary source network is an essential component of the competitive intelligence process but is all too often overlooked solely in favour of secondary sources. Sophie Alexander picks out some key points from Marc Limacher's subscription article where he reminds us that a company's employees often hold valuable information and shows why it's important for professionals to take the time to cultivate a give-and-take relationship with them.

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What do Vendors and Buyers Need from Each Other?
27th May 2014

Reporting from FreePint's recent Community of Practice sessions for vendors and buyers, Chris Porter highlights the key themes of common interest from the importance of good usage data to early customer involvement in product development.

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DiscoverOrg: Quality Data on IT Sales Prospects - Guaranteed
23rd May 2014

DiscoverOrg is an award winning web-based sales and marketing intelligence tool supporting those targeting IT prospects. DiscoverOrg has a number of valuable features and reviewer Jan Knight highlights two of the best.

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Social Media Monitoring: FreePint's Recent Reviews
23rd May 2014

FreePint has recently been taking a look at a range of social media monitoring and management tools, from vendors including Engage121, PR Newswire, Brandwatch, Cision and Digimind. Chris Porter briefly recaps some of the most striking features of each service.

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FreePint Newsletter 399 published
22nd May 2014

Announcement of the publication of FreePint Newsletter 399.

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My Favourite Tipples from a Legal Information Manager
21st May 2014

My Favourite Tipples are shared by Julie Keys, legal information manager. Julie works with lawyers across almost all practice areas both with an employer and in a freelance capacity.

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