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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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Concluding the FreePint Topic Series "Making Information Visible"
1st April 2015

Co-producer Martin White concludes the FreePint Topic Series "Making Information Visible" by highlighting key themes in visibility and discovery, that have emerged from the series that he and James Mullan have co-produced over the last three months. These include user-centric discovery, the information lifecycle and information visualisation. He also highlights product reviews and vendor insights.

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Is This Enterprise Social Tool Right For You?
27th March 2015

Enterprise social tools are increasingly common. They are either replacing intranets or complementing existing platforms with a more "social" set of features. However, organisations report a slow uptake of these new internal platforms. Very often that is due to a poor choice of tool(s). Ana Neves lists the most frequently-used poor selection criteria and recommends a much more effective one.

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Explore and Understand Data through Visualisation
27th March 2015

Andrew Lucas gives an overview of how visualisation can help in "Making Information Visible" and in communicating complex data in an easily digestible format. He explains why information managers should ensure that visualisation is part of their toolkit.

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Can You Use Training to Improve Discovery in the Enterprise?
26th March 2015

As Steve Bynghall explains, discovery in the enterprise is challenging. While technology is important, a holistic approach is important. This includes training and providing learning resources for users. Targeting users who have specialist information needs can have value, as can encouraging content owners to make their content more discoverable through good practices.

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