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Forming a Social Media Research Strategy for Competitive Intelligence
9th July 2013

Social media has enhanced the information professional's research toolkit. Freelance information professional Claire Whayman examines the importance of developing a social media research strategy for competitive intelligence, covering tools from Facebook to Twitter, and offers tips on best practice as well as key points to avoid.

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Making FreePint Part of your Strategy
8th July 2013

Making time to think strategically is challenging in a busy world. Pausing to review FreePint articles and reports, participating in a customer call or reaching out to get a bit of external perspective on a tricky internal question can help even the busiest professional take a fresh, more strategic view of change. Recent changes in suppliers, questions from senior leadership and reactive response to popular technology have all prompted FreePint customers to turn to us... and here's how we've helped.

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Go Forth with (Due) Diligence
28th June 2013

Lexis Diligence provides a convenient resource for timely access to global business intelligence in the areas of risk, compliance and fraud, with stringent Anti-Money Laundering, bribery and corruption regulations increasing the compliance burden for companies across many more sectors. Since the product was last reviewed there have been a few notable changes, making this a useful tool for organisations seeking to avoid the reputational and financial costs involved in non-compliance.

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Making the Case for Knowledge in Financial Services
28th June 2013

An essential part of an information manager's job is being able to explain and justify the value of an information or knowledge centre to colleagues and the C-suite. One FreePint customer calls on Director of Research Robin Neidorf for support and creates the case for information resources and knowledge staff as valuable assets and an essential part of the organisation's strategic planning process.

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FreePint Report: News Aggregation Products and Trends
27th June 2013

The FreePint Report: News Aggregation Products and Trends collates reviews of key products and articles on marketplace trends to provide an essential read for information content buyers. Reviews range from long-standing "must have" products such as Factiva and Nexis.com to niche aggregation products and complementary supporting products including Linex and Attensa StreamServer.

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Widen Your Horizons: Research with Non-Text Sources
25th June 2013

Reviewing FreePint's collection of articles on non-text sources, Jan Knight finds that valuable information can be gained from sources as diverse as social media's blogs and tweets, non-commercial publishing sources in grey literature, and emerging innovations such as visualisation and graphical representations of datasets and statistics.

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Arm Yourself with Sales 2.0 Intelligence Tools
21st June 2013

Sales intelligence services have evolved rapidly over the past few years. Traditional sales tools were general business information databases that supported list building, but they have matured into powerful information services with richer workflow functionality around companies, executives, and industries. The leading Sales 2.0 services support workflow integration into CRMs and help sales reps target who to call, when to call, and what to say.

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Experiences in FreePint Engagement
20th June 2013

FreePint's Communities of Practice (CoP) offer a convenient and compelling way for FreePint Subscribers to share information openly with colleagues and to discuss their challenges and experiences around topics such as mobile deployment in the enterprise. Joining a CoP allows Subscribers to communicate with their peers around the world to discuss global issues in information management and strategy. Robin Neidorf introduces the new FreePint CoP: news aggregation.

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FreePint's SLA Recap
20th June 2013

As always at professional gatherings, SLA attendees took full advantage of the opportunity to share ideas, ask questions of one another, and learn about emerging areas of information work.

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Big Data In Action: Epilogue
19th June 2013

The FreePint Topic Series: Big Data in Action wrapped up with a global webinar. Victor Camlek reviews the highlights of the webinar, recent interviews with key big data experts Attunity, Connotate, Linguamatics and Opera Solutions, and offers a final view of the Series.

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