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Subscription Update - What's New and What's Coming
24th March 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. Find out about our Community of Practice event for information managers in the tangible goods industry, and the session for professional services firms. Consulting projects include two with organisations which have undergone reorganisation or merger.
Future-Proofing Your News Strategy
23rd March 2015
The recent webinar "What We Learned About 'News, and Beyond'" shed light on three key findings from FreePint's recent Topic Series and research into news for research and current awareness. This blog item highlights those main findings and suggests some next steps for supporting strategic news planning through 2015.
Access to an Emerging Market - Starting Research in Brazil
20th March 2015
Latin American business information specialist Mirjam Wolfrum provides a starting point for conducting research on companies, economic data and industries in Brazil. She also highlights some of the challenges such as the importance of local language (Portuguese) and local researchers.
Introducing the FreePint Topic Series "Best Practices in Information Skills Development"
20th March 2015
As we launch FreePint's new Topic Series "Best Practices in Information Skills Development", the co-producers provide a taste of what's upcoming as we examine skills development from the perspective of information managers who need to train their centre staff and users in other departments.
Tableau Desktop - Visualising Business Intelligence
20th March 2015
The business intelligence market is growing fast and there are a raft of players competing for a share of the market. One of the fastest growing is Tableau Software which is setting the pace for data visualisation. FreePint has reviewed its latest release Tableau Desktop 9.0.
AdisInsight Offers Single Point of Access to Entire Drug Lifecycle
19th March 2015
AdisInsight is a new platform developed by Springer that offers quick and easy search into more than 210,000 scientifically curated records. The platform allows access to well-structured information pertaining to the entire drug lifecycle, thus, rendering the platform as a "one stop solution" for organisations working across the healthcare spectrum.
Subscription Update for Information Services Management Published
19th March 2015
The monthly FreePint Report: Subscription Update for Information Services Management has been published. This includes highlights from the Product Review of Nexis; source updates from Eureka.cc & Europresse.com, and Factiva; and news & analysis relevant to those responsible for information service management, information strategy and content procurement, including articles on crowdsourced financial information, use of ebooks in the enterprise, and tips on honing your research presentation.
For Maximum Visibility Keep Information Brief and Relevant
17th March 2015
Britt Mueller provides some tips to help ensure that information deliverables are actively used and valued. She also highlights the importance of tracking usage metrics and user behaviour.
Subscription Update for Professional Services
16th March 2015
Professional services firms make up a significant portion of FreePint's customer base. We work closely with our customers in this industry to produce resources that speak to their broad-based content requirements and particular needs for information strategy, procurement, skill development and collaboration with other parts of their businesses. Here we highlight recent and upcoming items from FreePint's Content, Community and Consulting.
Proud to Partner with Cycling for Libraries 2015
13th March 2015
FreePint is proud to sponsor the 2015 Cycling for Libraries event. Discussions and networking around the changing activities of libraries in a fresh new setting, the New Nordic tour, September 2015.
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