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"We're behind the curve"... but so is everyone else
18th April 2012

Organisations are suddenly focused on getting content onto their workers' mobile devices. Recent FreePint Research demonstrates a lot of activity around pilot projects... so why do so many organisations think that because they only have a pilot project they are "behind the curve"? Get real, research-based perspective by participating in Benchmarking on Mobile Deployment.

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Semantics questions
18th April 2012

Ever ask someone to clarify something they've just said and, instead of rephrasing, they repeat the same thing, only louder? It's like bellowing blather at the blind and blaming them for not getting the picture.

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Supporting Information Strategy
18th April 2012

Information strategists can use FreePint Family resources to gain insight on the many interrelated areas that affect the value of information in their organisations.

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Helping Corporate Libraries
18th April 2012

Corporate librarians can get value from nearly everything FreePint produces. Tell us what you are working on, and we'll help you find exactly what you need.

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Hard and tricky work: information mining
17th April 2012

Data and text mining techniques are used for analysing competitor behaviours and workflows as well as customer and market needs. These methods could also be used for open access, however, the full potential is not being realised as data is limited, there is no established user community and there are licensing issues.

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Sense-making and information recombination - a FUMSI Editorial
17th April 2012

The world runs on information flow. Money is information, products contain information – the most complex and sophisticated products can be broken down into basic materials assembled through application of knowledge and information to create novel and unexpected solutions.

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Research from behind the wall?
17th April 2012

The debate about open access publishing continues with strong representation from the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust for the idea that if research is publicly funded it should be open to all. However, both in the UK and the US there seems to be some hesitation which could mean that the only winners will be the big publishers.

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Speaking to stakeholders in their own terms
16th April 2012

You have a communication plan for your stakeholders – now how do you actually speak to them?

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Exploring opportunities in intelligence
16th April 2012

The field of intelligence work is one of those big secrets that everybody knows but don't really know much about. For some people, intelligence equals James Bond and espionage. Another common notion is that librarians are not analysts, and not capable of fulfilling this role, which in some ways reflects the stereotype of librarians pushing book cards, shushing people and sitting behind a desk, reading all day long.

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Sharing documents socially
16th April 2012

Yammer, the enterprise social network, which allows employees to post short updates, create pages and upload files, has announced that it has purchased online collaboration tool oneDrum. Will this combination make sense for the enterprise?

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