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Navigating the "Non-Commercial" Clause of Creative Commons Licences
10th April 2015

The Creative Commons licence is an increasingly popular tool used to share online content and make it easier to enforce copyright but the "commercial" clause isn’t that clearly defined and leaves many people confused. Sophie Alexander tries to clear up some of the ambiguity surrounding "non-commercial" use.

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Concluding the Company Information Collection
10th April 2015

Over recent months, FreePint has been taking a fresh look at providers of company information, delving deeply into long-established and newer services to look at issues such as breadth and depth of company profile coverage and integration of profiles with company-related news. Chris Porter picks out some notable highlights.

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What's in Store for Enterprise Social Networks?
9th April 2015

Ana Neves brings together the thoughts of some experienced professionals to identify the top trends in enterprise social tools and what needs to change in order to achieve real business impact.

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FreePint Newsletter 420 Published
9th April 2015

Announcement of the publication of FreePint Newsletter 420.

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My Favourite Tipples from a Learning and Instructional Designer
8th April 2015

My Favourite Tipples are shared by learning and instructional designer Sarah J. Huibregtse. She shares her favourite online resources in areas including project management and collaboration and includes a few writing resources.

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Subscription Update for Pharmaceutical Companies
8th April 2015

The driving force for companies in the pharmaceutical space is optimal management of the drug pipeline. Acquiring accurate and timely information about the lifecycle of specific drugs, and making that information visible throughout the organisation, is crucial to this process. Pharmaceutical companies will find resources with direct relevance to both aspects of these topics in recent FreePint Content and Community events. We also share information on recent Consulting projects with pharmaceutical companies.

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Subscription Update - What's New and What's Coming
8th April 2015

Find out what's new and upcoming in FreePint's Content, Community, and Consulting including articles, reports and webinars in the "Making Information Visible" series and a taste of the new Topic Series "Best Practices in Information Skills Development". Join our Community of Practice events on needs assessment for information visibility in April. We highlight consulting projects where research is planned for events such as industry exhibitions, where there is a critical mass of the relevant audience.

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FreePint Feedback - A Few Thoughts about Benchmarking
6th April 2015

Robin Neidorf comments on FreePint consulting projects around benchmarking and explains how FreePint hopes you will participate in future projects.

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Easing the Information Flow with Data and Network Maps
2nd April 2015

Sophie Alexander looks at how data and network maps can help us to make data-driven decisions and to identify and breakdown information silos.

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Encouraging Curation and Sharing to Facilitate Discovery
1st April 2015

Helping users to find information which they didn't know existed is undoubtedly a challenge. Steve Bynghall identifies some of the key tactics which can be used to help make discovery more of a "push" activity and some steps central teams can take to encourage changes in user behaviour.

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