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Chaos, idiocy and salvation
11th September 2012

Can we win the battle against information chaos and idiocy? Scott Brown reflects on recent FreePint Articles, reviews and observations from our community about the ongoing struggles to build value through information usage and management.

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PrivCo: Making a researcher's life easier
11th September 2012

Part of an information professional’s job is to be able to navigate the ever-growing landscape of research tools, whether free or subscription-based, and make an informed decision on the most appropriate tool to use from the myriad available. This article highlights the benefits of the PrivCo database, which is filling a gap in the market by providing detailed private company financial information, including insight into funding, venture capital and M&A activities. This is a short version of a more detailed review published in the FreePint Subscription. Subscribers can login now to view.

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Expanding Your Reach: Social Enterprise, Collaboration, Awareness and Integration
10th September 2012

Communications for information professionals in the enterprise is critical, as it creates awareness of the information services being provided to the company and how those services impact the business.

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The challenge of information management compliance
6th September 2012

As information technology continues to become increasingly embedded in our jobs, organisations will have exponentially more challenges around information compliance. Although individual industries have unique regulations, technologies and challenges, fundamentally, many of the compliance requirements are common. This allows information managers across multiple industries to address compliance challenges in a standard, systematic way. Edsel David looks at six strategies to begin to address these challenges.

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Catching up on a world of change
5th September 2012

Global events provide a context for observing the scope of change in the information world: Social media was an essential component of coverage of the 2012 London Olympics, unlike the Beijing Olympics only 4 years before. FreePint Reports published this month provide a similar opportunity to step back from the busy desktop and consider the full range of tools that impact how we go about research, news and media monitoring, and gathering intelligence about this world around us.

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What Is Hidden Will Be Revealed
4th September 2012

As researchers, we are continually learning about new tools, exploring new topical areas and finding new sources of information - subscription, free, or otherwise. Traditionally difficult-to-find information is increasingly becoming accessible.

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FreePint Report: Monitoring and Mining Social Media and News
30th August 2012

The rise of Web 2.0 has opened virtual gold mines of new forms of data that can be mined and analysed for an organisation’s purposes. The days when almost all the sources analysts could rely on were one-way sources, from the creator to the consumer, are over. The articles in this report examine the implications and impacts of this change on organisations, analysts and their work.

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Expanding the borders of information access and analysis
29th August 2012

Twice a year, FreePint publishes a compendium of articles supporting different areas of information work. This report collects six months’ worth of articles tagged with the category of research. Our guest editor Rachel Bates Wilfahrt looks at the spectrum of research topics, with a particular eye to emerging information sources.

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Unique content, big content
28th August 2012

What challenges do unique content and "big content" create for us as information professionals? We take a look at a review of Thomson Innovation, a patent research tool, and rumours of a Dun & Bradstreet sale.

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How Vendors Reach for Excellence in a Changing World
23rd August 2012

We often comment on how information practitioners adapt to a changing world of new tools and technologies influencing their work. Vendors of content products also have to contend with the speedy evolution of their environment, or risk becoming irrelevant. Recent FreePint Reports offer two examples of vendors successfully incorporating new expectations of functionality and content sets. But would buyers and users consider them successful? FreePint also takes on and contributes to industry dialogue on what any of us means by "product excellence".

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