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FreePint Webinar/CoP Registration now Centralised with Eventbrite
11th March 2014

You can now register for FreePint Webinars and Community of Practice (CoP) teleconferences and in-person sessions through FreePint's new Eventbrite page.

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Structure, Visibility & Measurement: Linking Social to Business Processes
10th March 2014

Social enterprise efforts have sceptics - and sometimes for good reason. Whilst social collaboration has important qualitative use cases, some executives struggle to see how social tools can fit into existing business processes. Social by nature is unstructured, but bringing social behaviour into a structured process could provide visibility, enable process improvements and allow you to capture all actions - down to the tiniest step to see real-time analytics.

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Harness Multilingual Resources for Research
10th March 2014

Global commerce now demands that organisations have multilingual capabilities, including access to content and translation tools. Perrin Kerravala discusses how organisations can leverage FreePint to find the best multilingual content providers and translation products.

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Enterprise Collaboration Enables New Ways of Doing Business
7th March 2014

As part of the FreePint Topic Series: The Social Enterprise, Ben Wightwick looks at factors to consider when reviewing enterprise collaboration solutions and some of the influencing trends associated with social business and the future of work.

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FT Newslines - Bringing Current Affairs into the Curriculum
5th March 2014

FT Newslines offers a "virtual classroom" allowing students and professors to annotate articles from the Financial Times (FT), submit comments and share them with their own class and other schools. Sophie Alexander finds out how the tool makes it easy to incorporate FT content into the curriculum.

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FreePint Subscription for Vendors
5th March 2014

Information product vendors who subscribe to FreePint also benefit from a variety of other advantages, Ann Marie Plankey explains how these range from vendor-specific Community of Practice calls to sponsorship options.

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Embedding Collaborative Thinking in Everyday Processes
3rd March 2014

The FreePint Topic Series: The Social Enterprise now moves its focus to gamification in the enterprise, embedding "social" in the process, and how to use SharePoint 2013 more effectively. Shimrit Janes highlights recent and upcoming content in the series.

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Keeping an Open Mind on Gamification
3rd March 2014

Gamification is, perhaps, the buzzword de jour, and for some this is off-putting. However it is worth trying to consider its potential by getting gamification into perspective. It is a design tactic which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, depending on what it is being used for and the specifics of the design.

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Biopharma Expertise from F1000Prime
28th February 2014

The best articles in biological and medical research are handpicked by experts to appear in F1000Prime's database. Yulia Aspinall highlights two of the key features which help to generate more opportunities for innovation in biopharmaceutical research and development.

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Dig Deeper into Social Media Monitoring with Digimind Social
27th February 2014

Social media monitoring products vary considerably in terms of their capabilities in areas such as analysis, reporting and real-time results. Aileen Marshall highlights the best features of Digimind Social.

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