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Big Data is All Around Us
9th May 2013

Victor Camlek reviews recent FreePint articles and considers the pervasive nature of big data in areas from the legal sector to knowledge management. He also highlights the upcoming FreePint Webinar: Big Data in Action: Plain Language, Practical Guidance.

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FreePint Series Explores Critical Topics
9th May 2013

FreePint's Series approach tackles essential topics through articles, reports, case studies and webinars. The current Series is "Big Data in Action" with a series on mobile security coming in the summer and an autumn series on regulatory compliance planned.

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Big Data - Where are the Boundaries?
7th May 2013

Big data is, by definition, big. But what do we mean by "big"? Keith Cooper, CEO of Connotate, explains how setting boundaries and having clear business goals is essential when working on big data projects.

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Big Data... And the Information Professional
3rd May 2013

Big data undoubtedly presents opportunities for information professionals. Victor Camlek looks at FreePint's recent articles on the topic to examine how info pros can demonstrate that their skill sets make them ideally suited to a career involving big data.

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Competitive Intelligence: Analyse Company Information to Understand Corporate Strategy
2nd May 2013

Milan Dalal of the Brook Intelligence Centre discusses the research and analysis you need to conduct in order to understand your competitors' and clients' corporate strategies. Historical and current context are essential along with major events and third party views and Milan discusses which information sources can help you identify these key elements.

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Printable FreePint Subscription Articles
2nd May 2013

In the latest FreePint development, a new option is now available for FreePint Subscription articles. Complementing the existing sharing and starring/saving options, FreePint Subscription articles are now printable, allowing you to share more easily with colleagues or to keep them in hard copy for future reference.

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Imaginative and Interactive Research Resource: Infographics
2nd May 2013

Even experienced researchers will benefit from paying closer attention to infographics and infoposters. They often present solid facts and statistical data in an "At a Glance" format, which is at once easy-to-understand and pleasing to the eye. Plus these non-text resources are seemingly everywhere you turn, so why not use them?

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Internal Communications in an Attention-Deficit World
1st May 2013

This collection of FreePint articles on internal communications presents a fascinating range of topics. Communications professionals now have a plethora of choices both of device and tool. Identifying the strengths, weaknesses, appropriateness and security of internal tools from SharePoint to email is essential along with familiarity with external tools such as Twitter and LinkedIn. And presentation of information is just as important - interactive figures or multimedia can be much more effective than lines of text...

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Defining Big Data: The Four Vs
26th April 2013

Security and speed of data transmission, accuracy of information stored and where to store vast amounts of data are just some of the issues that need to be tackled when considering big data projects. In his second article on the topic, Victor Camlek looks into the detail of the four Vs: Volume, Velocity, Vaulting and Validation and how they define the essence of big data.

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Living (and Coping) with Big Data
25th April 2013

As we launch our series devoted to big data we begin to see that many articles and features, even when they are not tagged as "big data", definitely fit within this domain. Victor Camlek reviews recent FreePint articles and features and presents his view on three developments related to big data, in fields ranging from sales to social media and academic publishing.

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