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22nd March 2012
FreePint Newsletter No.347
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Introduction
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 By Michelle Manafy
Things are changing here in the FreePint Newsletter.
We're introducing FreePint Features, which provides commentary and insight about important issues, trends and solutions relating to the value of information in the enterprise. We also share latest developments with FreePint Family resources and tips on how to use them to build the value of information in the enterprise.
FreePint Features is where you'll find my latest commentary, "Libraries, learning and the bottom line", which focuses on educating students and patrons about the value of information.
 In this issue of the FreePint Newsletter, you'll also find some useful insights on collaboration, including the articles "An app for every occasion" and "Facebook launches interest lists", from FUMSI as well as our VIP guest editor's look at how two of the recently reviewed products, Bibliogo and Silobreaker Premium, empower collaboration around information.
All of the changes in the FreePint Newsletter reflect a lot of great development throughout the company. We're working hard to make it easier for you to identify and access the content that's most useful to you, whether by one of our brands, or via our content categories, where you can find articles from across the FreePint Family organised by industry topic or by job function.
Best regards,
Michelle Manafy,
Director of Content
FreePint
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My Favourite Tipples
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 By Corrina Mason
As an Information Specialist at the Human Resources Professionals Association, I am constantly looking for new ways to create information services for members, as well as support internal organisational research. I have to stay on top of social media and information service delivery trends, as well as keep abreast of topical business areas such as human resources and association management. Like many other information professionals, I am also a device-junkie - so I like to test the newest, latest programs and applications to help me and my devices stay connected. The following are a few great "tipples" that have proven so useful, personally and professionally, that they've become part of my routine.
- Imagine Canada Nonprofit Library Commons: Imagine Canada is the non-profit for non-profits in Canada. Their mission is to "advance knowledge and relationships to foster effective and sustainable charitable and non-profit organisations." To this end, their online database features collections on non-profit boards and governance, corporate social responsibility, non-profit management, and human resources, and has been a boon to me in my professional life, as I can confidently refer our business users to their distinctive service. Their unique collections target issues specific to the non-profit community, bringing together a wealth of unique materials on issues that often get overlooked in more mainstream business resources.
- Sugarsync: Free cloud storage! With all the different devices I have acquired over the past year or two, I was starting to feel the lack of continuity, but I didn't want to spend a lot of time or money to rectify the situation. A benevolent tipster told me about Sugarsync, and now I just put items in my "Magic Briefcase" to automatically sync my smart phone, laptop, desktop and tablet. 5GBs of free cloud storage makes working on the go an enjoyable experience instead of an exercise in trying to remember where I saved the latest version of my work. If you need more storage, their rates are quite reasonable, and I have found that their interface is intuitive and their app presentation is clean and uncomplicated.
- Google Alerts: Sure, there are more sophisticated alert systems - but for quickly and easily keeping myself up-to-date on a handful of topics that matter to me most, I rely on Google Alerts. They are easy to set up, have a few simple filtering options and once you pinpoint the right keywords, you are all set. You can't track trends or monitor opinion, like you can with many other fee-based media monitoring systems, but if your purpose is to simply read the latest popular media on a given topic (and you already have a gmail account) it's definitely worth it to set up a few alerts.
- Working in Canada: Whether you are just starting out, mid-career, or already at the top of the heap, it can't hurt to know more about labour market projections, salary data, and the educational qualifications you need to keep yourself relevant. This is an eye-opening free resource for both job-seekers and employers to learn more about the Canadian labour market and more than 500 distinct professions. Search by occupation, using National Occupational Classification codes, or do a title search to find out more about the skills and qualifications you need to excel in your chosen profession. You can also find out what the current salaries and wages are in your region and what the projected for that job will be in the future - and since Human Resources and Skills Development Canada has recently integrated their online job board, you can search actual job openings in that field with just the click of a button.
- Toronto Deskset Facebook Group: This is clearly a fun, passionate bunch of folks, and even if you cannot attend their events, their Facebook group is worth joining. Toronto-centric, they post links to many articles that affect librarians, information professionals and knowledge managers in the Toronto community, bringing a fresh perspective to timeless issues, as well as acknowledging the more human side (and fun) side of being an information professional.
Corrina Mason is an Information Specialist at the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA). She is the content curator of the HR Daily, a daily news compendium of HR and management issues; community manager of Water Cooler, HRPA's members'-only social networking site; association research librarian and all-around business information literacy advocate.
Would you like to add your Favourite Tipples suggestions for the FreePint Newsletter or write an article for FUMSI (Find, Use, Manage or Share Information?).
If so, please submit them to support@freepint.com.
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 Categories on FreePint: Faster Content Discovery
You can now find articles from FreePint Family brands by category
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FreePint Features
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Latest articles in FreePint Features:
- Libraries, learning and the bottom line
By Michelle Manafy
This month I had the privilege of speaking at two library events. The first was a remarkable response to a lack of budget for employee travel. The New York Public Library system employs hundreds of librarians. Thus, it isn't a great surprise that it can't afford to send many of them to conferences and educational events. Yet the need to keep staff informed and up to date on information tools and strategies inspired the NYPL to seek a grant to fund its own two ...
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- New login features
By Robin Neidorf
Enabling easier access to full-text articles, product reviews and other premium content has been a priority for FreePint. Following development work based on subscriber feedback, we're now able to do so...
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- Categories: What's your pleasure?
By Robin Neidorf
Making relevant information visible is essential for any business, and FreePint is no exception. We've recently introduced categories of content, designed to help readers quickly identify and access the FreePint Family articles that are most useful to them...
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FUMSI Focus
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 However you Find, Use, Manage or Share Information, you'll find something in FUMSI to help:
FUMSI publishes articles, research collections, and a monthly magazine, to give provide workers throughout the organisation practical help with information skills. Visit http://www.fumsi.com/
We add new articles to FUMSI every month. Premium subscribers have access to the full archive of all full-text content. Others can visit the FUMSI Focus article database to find free, sponsor-supported content.
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 An app for every occasion
By Sarah Dillingham
Get on a train almost anywhere in the world and look around. What's half the carriage doing? They're fiddling with their phones, faces lit up with a yellowy glow. The no. 1 business requirement I hear is "Can I get that on my phone?" Organisational forays into mobile access thus far range between the all out and the tentative.
Read, print, save or forward this article now »
 Facebook launches interest lists
By James Mullan
Do you like to organise your friends into lists on Facebook? Yes, then you'll definitely be interested in a new feature launched by Facebook last week. The feature, called "interest lists", allows users to turn Facebook into their own personalised newspaper, incorporating feeds of subjects and topics that matter to that user.
Read, print, save or forward this article now »
Latest FUMSI Focus Articles
A selection of the latest articles from our editors and contributors:
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FUMSI - Forthcoming Topics
- Intelligence in Transportation
- Automating information gathering, sharing and archiving with "if this then that" (iftt)
- Learning to speak "stakeholder": Communicating value to your stakeholders
- Putting Twitter in your knowledge management toolbox
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 Accelerated Change in the Mobile Enterprise
Year 2 Research Results Published
There is increasing urgency in the enterprise to figure out mobile content delivery... despite ongoing challenges with security, authentication and overall risk management.
Learn from the results of in-depth interviews with information managers at major organisations about:
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VIP Features
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 VIP publishes in-depth, unbiased reviews of business information products. If you purchase or use premium information resources, make VIP part of your professional reading every month »
 VIP Magazine
Collaboration around information
By Yulia Aspinall, PhD
Effective information and knowledge sharing are crucial aspects of both personal and organisational life. Social media tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have become indispensable parts of everyday life, and in doing so have brought about a revolution in personal sharing and exchange of knowledge and information. Organisations also recognise the value of sharing, although they may not be particularly good at it, and increasing numbers have implemented programmes and business processes to facilitate and encourage a sharing culture. Information professionals, equipped as they are with skills to find information and the capabilities and tools to share it, are well positioned to support this organisational desire to create open information and knowledge sharing.
There are not, however, many online products which combine the ability to search specialist websites, and store and share information using the same interface. Portals, for example, are useful tools for sharing, but you can generally only search the content of the portal, and not the external websites.
For this reason, I found one of the reviews in this issue of VIP, Bibliogo, particularly interesting, as it introduces a specialist product with capabilities to search, store and share information. With a scientific background, this website is especially relevant to me since it addresses the need for regular monitoring, storing and usage of both scientific and medical literature...
View the full article at the VIP LiveWire »
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 VIP LiveWire
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Latest Postings on the LiveWire...
- "Overlapping and at cross-purposes" - music to information professionals' ears?
By Tim Buckley Owen
A recent report from Thomson Reuters outlines the growing workload of compliance officers despite the number of products now available to help them. Keeping abreast of regulatory changes and compliance is a challenge for many, but one where information professionals will continue to find themselves needed.
Read posting online »
- Social CRM - who will make port safely?
By Tim Buckley Owen
Social customer relationship management grows in importance with Salesforce, in particular, dominating and launching new products. However, Gartner warns that there may be too many overlapping solutions being offered to too small a market in this field.
Read posting online »
- Britannica v Wikipedia - which site will you trust?
By Penny Crossland
Encyclopaedia Britannica will no longer be published in hard copy and will be available in digital format only. Unlike its rival Wikipedia, it will continue to written and fact-checked by experts and will not be free. There's an annual fee for the online version or a monthly charge for the iPad app.
Read posting online »
- Panjiva mini review: Part 2
By Helen Clegg
In Part 1 of this review, we looked at the basics for Panjiva, a research tool for the procurement community. In this post, we'll take a deeper dive into functionality.
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- Technology moving into range
By Joanna Ptolomey
The UK Office for National Statistics measures inflation via a basket of everyday goods which also acts as a social barometer. Recently mobile content and technology show an increase in demand along with a growing trend for internet and 3D TVs.
Read posting online »
Always feel free to comment on any item on the LiveWire, and if you do not yet have a free subscription to the VIP Newsletter, you can sign up now »
VIP LiveWire »
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VIP publishes in-depth, unbiased reviews of business information products. If you purchase or use premium information resources, make VIP part of your professional reading every month »
VIP - Forthcoming Reviews
- Capital IQ
- Digimind
- MedTRAK
- Alacra Compliance
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TFPL Training Courses
Since 1987 TFPL has been working with the industry to develop training solutions to match the growing and changing needs of knowledge and information professionals. Course development is based on independent research we have conducted into skill requirements and the developing role of the knowledge and information professional gathered from across government, public and private sector organisations.
Get TFPL courses tailored to in-house programmes or one-to-one coaching. Our trainers are independent consultants. Their unique skill sets enable them to develop bespoke training programmes to specific client needs.
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Jinfo - Jobs and Events in Information
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Jinfo Jobs:
Here is a selection of the latest featured vacancies in the Jinfo database:
- Knowledge Manager
Recruiter: Oxford University Press
Country: United Kingdom
- Records Manager
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Country: United Kingdom
- Director of Global Academic Sales
Increase global sales by 50 % in 3 years and establish brand awareness as the Director of Global...
Recruiter: Sue Hill Recruitment and Services Limited
Country: United Kingdom
- Records Management Assistant
Records Management Specialist for newly created vacancy for Consultancy in Central London. Excellent opportunity for bright person ideally with some EDRMS expertise.
Recruiter: Glen Recruitment
Country: United Kingdom
- Library Resources Supervisor
This is an excellent career opportunity for an experienced library professional to join an establish...
Recruiter: TFPL
Country: United Kingdom
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Highlights from ResourceShelf
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