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Investing in compliance
4th June 2012

Some expenses can never be avoided. Even when content budgets are slashed, spending on compliance-related products remains stable or even grows. If regulatory compliance is part of your job, learn about FreePint Family resources that can help -- including the free FreePint Report: Buyer's Guide on Compliance.

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BYOD: the risks and the consequences
4th June 2012

Employers are keeping an ever closer eye on what their employees get up to, and one reason is the growing Bring Your Own Device to Work or BYOD movement. But the regulation seems to lag behind the technology, and the current disregard for people management is storing up trouble ahead.

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R.R. Donnelley cements EDGAR Online partnership
1st June 2012

R.R. Donnelley has gone from strength to strength in the last 18 months, moving away from its roots as a print business to becoming a self-styled integrated communications provider for the B2B sector.

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Delightful intranets: beauty and brains
31st May 2012

How can you get users engaging with your intranet? Make it beautiful to drive a positive emotional response.

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Why you are global, even if you do not think you are
31st May 2012

If you're planning your marketing on a regional basis, you might be missing out on valuable opportunities at the global level. We often hear from sponsors that they want a digital mailing list that reaches one country or continent... but is that truly serving their goals?

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China trumps in scientific publishing?
31st May 2012

At the Online Information conference, in December 2011, I reported on the flurry of discussions, influences and markers that China seemed to be having in the world of scientific publishing.

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Studying the Financial Times' MBA Newslines
30th May 2012

The Financial Times (FT) recently introduced a new service called MBA Newslines as a bolt-on to the FT website content. Newslines provides the ability to annotate any article and any number of articles from the FT's entire content offering. That’s a lot of content and opens up a potentially unlimited resource for commentary, debate and analysis of current business issues.

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People - we need your big data
30th May 2012

The McKinsey Global Institute reports that if the US healthcare system were to use big data creatively the result would be a $300 billion value every year. So what about people information or patient derived information? Surely this is a huge missing chunk of big data that is also floating around in the digital information world.

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Creating an automatic social network
30th May 2012

We all know how well social networks work when individuals are sharing content with their friends and to some extent peers within the sector they work in. You only have to look at the success of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to see the evidence. However internal or enterprise social networks haven't had the same success, a new way of sharing content could be about to change that.

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Cookies - who will be the first to be clobbered?
30th May 2012

Cookie compliance day – the introduction in the United Kingdom of regulations requiring all website owners to ask users actively to opt into the use of cookies – has come and gone, and there’s still plenty of evidence that neither companies nor public bodies are ready yet. What consequences should they fear – and do users actually care?

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