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Sixth Annual News Needs & Preferences Survey Shows Change in Attitudes
16th December 2013
A shift in attitudes towards news is highlighted in FreePint's Sixth Annual News Needs & Preferences Survey. The introduction of DJX has caused a spike in the number of respondent customers of Factiva who are actively considering alternative news options. The ability to redistribute content from news suppliers throughout the organisation, a new question for this year, demonstrated the increasing importance of this function. Advanced search options and a choice of delivery formats are also essential.
IngentaConnect: Content & Compliance Resources in One Portal
13th December 2013
IngentaConnect offers digital access to article summaries and citation data from over 30,000 academic journals and publications and 4.5 million articles in fields such as engineering, library science, social sciences, medicine, science (STM) and technology. Full-text access is available free if available, or via pay-per-view, individual or institutional subscriptions. Librarians can track usage through COUNTER and create solutions to accommodate specific customer needs.
Concluding the FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation
11th December 2013
The FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation concluded with our final article advising on the supplier selection process. The Series of over 50 articles and two webinars included full results of FreePint's Sixth Annual News Needs and Preferences Survey, product reviews, mini reviews, how-to guides and a case study of news in action in a City law firm. We interviewed leading vendors Acquire Media, Attensa, Comintelli, Dow Jones, Northern Light and Thomson Reuters.
FreePint, Free Range: Live Events this Winter
5th December 2013
FreePint's Community of Practice sessions will next year be available in-person, with events upcoming in London and New York in January and Chicago and Minneapolis in February. Sessions allow FreePint Subscribers to connect in real time with peers around critical topics like changes in news aggregation, mobile content security, and the value of content investments.
Input from the FreePint Sounding Board
4th December 2013
FreePint's "sounding board" of information managers representing the full range of customers by industry, geography and professional industry has helped to firm up FreePint's editorial plans for the coming months. Upcoming Topic Series include The Social Enterprise; International Copyright; Licensing, Pricing & Negotiation; Next-Gen Competitive Intelligence; and Elearning for Information Skills.
In-Person Communities of Practice Coming in January and February
4th December 2013
The opportunity to discuss key challenges and issues in a confidential environment with peers across other industries offers great possibilities for thinking differently about working practices, technologies implemented and plans for the future. FreePint's Communities of Practice now offer those opportunities in-person as well as in teleconference. Four in-person sessions are running in January and February 2014, covering critical issues around the future of news delivery in your organisation, such as understanding and measuring return on investment in news, and how best to educate senior executives on content distribution and cloud storage of news resources.
Silobreaker Premium: Encompassing Aggregation, Collaboration and Knowledge Management
4th December 2013
Penny Crossland looks at the latest release of Silobreaker Premium, the well-established open source intelligence tool. Like its competitors, over the past year it has developed enhanced workflow and collaboration features. New customisation and reporting functions have made this an excellent monitoring tool and a workflow tool for the enterprise. As well as providing around 300,000 news items a day, it also offers unique content in the form of fact sheets on companies and individuals.
Integration and Improvement on the News Aggregation Menu
3rd December 2013
Series producer Andrew Grave looks at how the FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation helps professionals to keep up with changes in the news aggregation marketplace, whether it's an evolution due to product enhancements, changing user demands or updated supplier strategy. Interviews with leading vendors such as Comintelli and Factiva, combined with product reviews from NewsEdge to SinglePoint are complemented by practical advice. "How to" articles range from what to look for when shortlisting your news aggregation supplier to understanding how best to keep staff up-to-date with current awareness.
Extract More Meaning with a Northern Light SinglePoint Strategic Research Portal
3rd December 2013
A Northern Light SinglePoint strategic research portal can aggregate a company's entire market research, both internal and external, and can be customised to deliver timely and accurate information to specific user groups. Sophie Alexander finds SinglePoint an easy-to-use portal containing a wealth of useful and focused research content for market and competitive intelligence staff, sales teams, marketing and purchasing managers, executives and more.
Sophisticated News Search from Nexis
27th November 2013
The recently-introduced News Search option from Nexis® (known as Nexis.com in the US) allows even a novice searcher to create a sophisticated search whilst still maintaining the flexibility to satisfy a power user, finds researcher Anne Lonergan. Nexis is a comprehensive global business information research tool, providing access to thousands of sources via one interface, including business and financial news; company, biographical and industry intelligence; trade journal and market research materials; legal and regulatory records; and social media content.
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