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FreePint Buyer's Guide, When you're in the Market for Content
24th July 2013

Identifying and researching relevant information products and vendors can be a time-consuming process. FreePint's Buyer's Guide listings provide intelligence across 22 categories, ranging from collaborative tools to compliance, STM and visualisation. Developing the listings is an ongoing process which also complements other FreePint initiatives such as the upcoming FreePint Topic Series: Compliance in Context.

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Sales Intelligence Services Power CRM Insights: Introduction
22nd July 2013

Following his articles on sales intelligence and Sales 2.0, Michael Levy turns his attention to the benefits of integrating sales intelligence services with customer relationship management tools. This article forms the first of four looking at six key sales intelligence vendors: D&B360, Data.com, InsideView, LinkedIn, iSell and ZoomInfo.

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FreePint Topics: Essential Insight, Practical Focus
17th July 2013

The new FreePint Topics offer must-have content for any business to be efficient and competitive - and articles offer unique, practical and actionable insight. Articles and product reviews are available under "sources", "technology", "ROI" and "compliance"; monthly email updates are free. Don't miss out on information from game-changing developments in sources to the power of planning for improved return on investment.

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Coming Soon - FreePint Topic Series: Compliance in Context
12th July 2013

With the new FreePint Topic Series: Compliance in Context: When Information is Essential, due to launch in September, series producer Andrew Lucas provides a preview of article topics scheduled along with key compliance tools to be reviewed, ranging from BvD's Compliance Catalyst to Compliance Complete from Thomson Reuters and Reed Elsevier's Bankers Accuity.

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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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