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10th June 2010
No.303
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Contents
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Editorial
My Favourite Tipples
FreePint Bar
FUMSI Features
- Real-Time Monitoring: Tools and Trends to Watch
- Part 1: 'Retreading', not Reinventing, the Wheel: How info pros repurpose content for increased efficiency and visibility
VIP Features
- People power - BiomedExperts and three major social sites reviewed
- Recent postings to the LiveWire
- Recent postings to the Wire
Jinfo - Jobs and Events
Jobs in Information:
- Researcher
- Academic Liaison and Research Subject Librarian
- Senior Knowledge Manager (Legal) - JERSEY
Events in Information:
- Copyright compliance: practical steps to stay within the law
- AHIS Conference
- SLA's Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO 2010
Highlights from DocuTicker
- Public Pension Crisis Threatens to Bankrupt California
- 'Income of the Elderly Population Age 65 and Over, 2008,' and 'Examination of the Short-term Impact of the COBRA Premium Subsidy and Characteristics of the COBRA Population'
Highlights from ResourceShelf
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
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Editorial
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By Robin Neidorf
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- The ability of a purchase to make a measurable impact on an organisation is the toughest challenge content purchasers face internally
- Unique content is the most important factor in selecting pay-per-use or free resources
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My Favourite Tipples
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Submit your list of up to five favourite tipples to support@freepint.com for publication with your byline and photo in the FreePint Newsletter. Have a single tip to share? Post it to the FUMSI Forum.
By Michelle Manafy
- Fierce Content Management
Ron Miller goes well beyond technology covers the issues of managing content as well as many of the ancillary issues that content buyers and sellers face in this rapidly moving space.
- Pew Internet & American Life Project
Okay, I betray my US-centrism with this one, but Pew continuously provides research and analysis of the emerging and essential issues regarding the digital content space.
- Portals and KM Bill Ives' blog covers enterprise 2.0 tools and strategies, without hype and with practical and philosophical insights.
- Stephen's Lighthouse
If I need insights or inspiration into the library industry trends and innovation in this perspective of the industry, I turn to Stephen Abram. Opinionated, edgy, and always interesting.
- Brynn Marie Evans
I have to throw in a wildcard here: Brynn is one to watch. This young woman has an uncanny knack for understanding and expressing how social-in a digital context-is impacting every aspect of business.
Michelle Manafy is the Editorial Director, Enterprise Group, for Information Today, Inc. In this role, Michelle serves as Editor-in-chief for EContent magazine and the Intranets newsletter. She is also the
programming chair of Information Today's Enterprise Search Summits and the Buying & Selling eContent Conference.
Prior to joining EContent as Editor, she served as Associate Editor of EMedia magazine
where she specialized in author acquisitions and editorial development. Michelle has written on a variety of technology topics including digital
publishing, content development and distribution, streaming media, and audio, video, and storage technologies. Follow Michelle on Twitter @michellemanafy.
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The FreePint Bar is where we publish information about the latest content from across the FreePint Family of resources.
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- [FreePint] Report: Buying Patterns Research
The FreePint Report: Buying Patterns Research is being readied for publication, and the results provide a great deal of insight into the challenges and pressures on the desks of information professionals today. 226 respondents provided insight into the information structure at their organisations, who has input into their content budgets, what challenges they face when making the case for content purchases, and what resources they turn to for pay-per-use and free information as part of their range of sources.
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- [RS] Resource of the Week: Eurofound
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) Eurofound is an official European Union (EU) body which defines its role as a provider of "information, advice and expertise - on living and working conditions, industrial relations and managing change in Europe - for key actors in the field of EU social policy on the basis of comparative information, research and analysis." It will quickly be seen that this statement potentially covers an enormous amount of ground, and in fact this potential is realised. This is to the advantage of researchers, as Eurofound is a site from which it is possible to glean a great deal of information on social and economic life, both regionally and for individual countries.
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FUMSI Features
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Real-Time Monitoring: Tools and Trends to Watch
 By Heather Negley
FUMSI: Find
The growth in real-time data has led to new ways to manipulate, synthesise and distil information very quickly. From tools for disease surveillance to heat maps for tracking trends in the stock market, the number of ways for information professionals to tap into this data is increasing with all the major players vying for position in this market.
WHAT'S INSIDE: 'The growth of real-time tools such as Twitter has led to the emergence of trend and hyper-local tools which use this new ability to manipulate, synthesise and distil information very quickly. Whether you are browsing or searching for a piece for information, the extra dimension of time has added a new way to dissect information making the research process itself more dynamic.'
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Part 1: 'Retreading', not Reinventing, the Wheel: How info pros repurpose content for increased efficiency and visibility
 By Scott Brown
FUMSI: Use
Working efficiently and adding value are core skills for information professionals in these cash-strapped times, so Scott Brown's tips on repurposing, reusing and generally recycling information provide some very useful ways of honing our skills.
WHAT'S INSIDE: 'Librarians and information professionals working in corporate settings share simple yet innovative ways to reuse and extend the value of their work - their notes, presentations, marketing and research.'
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VIP Features
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 People power - BiomedExperts and three major social sites reviewed in May's VIP
Don't be put off by the name when exploring the free-to-use BiomedExperts, warns Joanna Ptolomey; it's all about people and the return on connections that that can bring - a niche product with mass appeal. Its value and richness is appropriate to many stakeholders, including the business sector - aiding workflow processes, promoting business and economic growth and revealing inward investment possibilities. In an almost clean bill of health, it was only the shortcomings in help and support that let this impressive resource down.
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- J. J. Keller's Webb Shaw to moderate first-ever SLA roundtable discussion
SLA Rising Stars and SLA Fellows will share their collective insights on hot topics at the 2010 Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO. Neenah, WI - Webb Shaw, Director of Editorial Resources at J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. will moderate the first-ever SLA Rising Stars/SLA Fellows Roundtable, in which both experienced information professionals and newer practitioners will discuss hot topics in the industry, ranging from the attributes you need in today's tough job market to making the case for an info pro's ROI.
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- PebblePad wins renowned international award
Pebble Learning and the University of Wolverhampton have won a prestigious international elearning award; an international panel of judges selected online personal learning system PebblePad for a Platinum Award for Global Learning Excellence - the highest available - at the IMS Global Learning Impact Awards held in Long Beach, California in May 2010.
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- ISI DealWatch releases League Tables
Buenos Aires, May 28, 2010 - According to the DealWatch database from ISI Emerging Markets, Citigroup Inc. was the top M&A financial adviser on the Latin American market in the first quarter of 2010, having participated in deals with a combined value of to USD 9,768mn. Citigroup Inc. also ranked first in the number of deals in the period January through March.
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Resource of the Week - European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound)
Eurofound is an official European Union (EU) body which defines its role as a provider of "information, advice and expertise - on living and working conditions, industrial relations and managing change in Europe - for key actors in the field of EU social policy on the basis of comparative information, research and analysis." It will quickly be seen that this statement potentially covers an enormous amount of ground, and in fact this potential is realised. This is to the advantage of researchers, as Eurofound is a site from which it is possible to glean a great deal of information on social and economic life, both regionally and for individual countries.
Eurofound is in fact an umbrella name for the work of three related bodies, EIRO (European Industrial Relations Observatory); EMCC (European Monitoring Centre on Change); and EWCO (European Working Conditions Observatory). Tabs for their individual sites are conveniently provided on the Eurofound homepage - a helpful way into information and the latest findings on particular spheres of social or working life.
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A look back at what the FreePint Newsletter covered at this time in previous years:
- FreePint No. 279, 11th June 2009 "Folksonomies: Business Use" and "Computers in Libraries 2009: Spreading Ideas"
- FreePint No. 254, 5th June 2008 "Information Provision: Adding Value" and "US Government Information on the Internet"
- FreePint No. 231, 14th June 2007 "CI: Collaborative Intelligence" and "Vigilant Due Diligence"
- FreePint No. 207, 8th June 2006 "Distance learning as a collaborative enterprise: Tips on teamwork to make the class work" and "Q&A with Christopher Barger, IBM's Blogger-in-Chief"
- FreePint No. 184, 16th June 2005 "Two Views of the SLA Conference, Toronto, June 2005" and "Setting Up as an Independent Consultant"
- FreePint No. 161, 17th June 2004 "The Impact of the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Records Management World Wide" and "RSS: Less hype, more action"
- FreePint No. 138, 5th June 2003 "Professional Qualifications in Information and Knowledge Management" and "Writing for the Web - How to Write Web-Friendly Content for your Site"
- FreePint No. 113, 30th May 2002 "Trade Unions on the Net" and "The Future of Mobile Telephony"
- FreePint No. 89, 7th June 2001 "Conference Information and the Internet" and "Dyslexia Resources"
- FreePint No. 64, 8th June 2000 "Understanding Insurance" and "The Invisible Web"
- FreePint No. 40, 10th June 1999 "Weather Sources on the Web" and "Searching for Mammon - Search engine business models"
- FreePint No. 16, 11th June 1998 "Web Site Marketing - How do they do that?" and "How to run a survey on the Net"
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