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In The Thick Of It: FreePint for Government Information Professionals
25th October 2013
Mark Faulkner examines how FreePint can help information professionals in government organisations identify new sources, help review older sources in a new way and provide assistance in thinking about procurement decisions. He highlights articles covering topics from grey literature to identifying authoritative news sources and improving the value of content investments.
CB Insights: Intelligence on High Growth Sectors
25th October 2013
Venture capital database CB Insights is highly appealing for professionals in the investment, mergers & acquisitions (M&A), high tech, biotech, and other high-growth industries, finds reviewer Perrin Kerravala. New features since our 2012 review include proprietary research with commentary and data, valuation metrics for select financing and M&A deals, and data visualisation tools including heat maps, charts and graphics.
Keep Ahead of the Compliance Curve with the FreePint Topic Series: Compliance in Context
24th October 2013
The FreePint Topic Series: Compliance in Context continues to provide articles exploring some of the key issues in compliance, including a regulatory overview, linguistic identity matching, understanding Politically Exposed Persons and tools available to mitigate risk. The FreePint Webinar on the design of compliance tools looked at workflow design, customer engagement and product development.
Meltwater News & Buzz - Authoritative & Timely Media Monitoring
24th October 2013
Meltwater Buzz and Meltwater News provide timely information that is pertinent from a wide range of social media outlets and news sources, respectively. Jan Knight's review finds that the monitoring products allow users to quickly grasp what's happening in the areas being monitored and would provide great value to any professional in a public relations, social media or marketing field.
A Wealth of New FreePint Content
24th October 2013
Robin Neidorf picks article and review highlights from the two FreePint Topic Series running this month: Compliance in Context and Beyond Aggregation and introduces the Series planned for 2014 which include The Social Enterprise, Next-Generation Competitive Intelligence, Copyright Symposium, and Licensing and Pricing.
NewsEdge: Enhanced Media Monitoring
23rd October 2013
Web-based media monitoring service NewsEdge combines premium and free web sources into one online database that is used by corporate enterprise and government organisations. As well as monitoring over 4,500 free online web sources, in the last 18 months the company has added over 4,000 premium titles including hard-to-find titles, from locations such as Russia, Taiwan, the Baltic and Thailand, with many titles appearing in languages other than English.
Keep Up-To-Date on Compliance Tools & Issues
17th October 2013
Key themes in the FreePint Topic Series: Compliance in Context include product workflow, improved efficiency and, above all, ensuring that you have the right product in place to protect your organisation against regulatory, reputational and business risk. Series producer, Andrew Lucas, highlights articles and reviews which cover these important aspects along with ways to keep up-to-date with the constant flow of new compliance regulation.
Maximise Your Technology Investment - Tap Into Your Technology Culture
15th October 2013
An organisation's technology culture has an enormous effect on its ability to identify technology-driven opportunities, connect them to business goals, prioritise across different opportunities and initiatives and implement technology projects wisely. Robin Neidorf introduces the technology culture inventory, a medium to gather and benchmark your inputs on your organisation's technology culture so that you can then play to the company's strengths and weaknesses.
FreePint Series Keeps You On Top of the Changing Landscape in News Aggregation
14th October 2013
The FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation launched this month and runs until the end of November. Reviews of key news aggregator and awareness tools form a key part of the Series which brings eight product reviews in addition to M-Adaptive already published, plus three mini reviews. Series producer Andrew Grave also previews the articles and webinars in the series, covering areas such as customised integrations of news content and news awareness technology installations.
What Goes Into Product Design? Focus on Compliance Tools
14th October 2013
Understanding how compliance tools were designed and which problems they were designed to meet can help you to use the tools more effectively. In the upcoming FreePint Webinar on Understanding Compliance from the Inside Out, vendors will answer questions such as: How do you engage with customers? How do you stay relevant in a quickly changing regulatory environment? How do you create the right balance between standard features and customisation in a product designed for workflow integration? Join this free session.
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