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Sales Intelligence Comes of Age with Sales 2.0
20th June 2013
Sales tools have moved from simple spreadsheets or discrete information sets to single-view, cross-platform workflow solutions. Michael Levy explores the evolution and the technologies behind the move, such as the use of multiple independent taxonomies, semantic tagging, predictive analytics and social media. He highlights some of the key sales intelligence products such as D&B360, InsideView and OneSource iSell.
Mobile Deployment: Which Challenges for Content Vendors?
19th June 2013
Content vendors and publishers are facing a raft of challenges as they face increasing pressure to deliver content to a wide variety mobile devices - and in a way that's engaging and entertaining as well as informative, easy-to-use and optimised for mobile workflow. Robin Neidorf reports on recent discussions in FreePint's Community of Practice: Mobile Deployment in the Enterprise which delved into the challenges of build, buy or partner and development platforms.
ProQuest Dialog: Nearly Ready for Prime Time
18th June 2013
Robin Neidorf interviewed members of ProQuest Dialog's senior management team to find out more about the upcoming customer transition to the new ProQuest Dialog service, features and content to be included, the focus on customer experience, and future plans.
Mobile Deployment: Different Challenges for Different Content Vendors
17th June 2013
FreePint's Community of Practice: Mobile Deployment in the Enterprise explores the different types of content vendors, such as aggregators and publishers, and discusses why it's important to understand their business models in order to appreciate the varying issues and challenges they face when deploying content over a mobile platform.
Prezi: Set Your Presentations Free
13th June 2013
Prezi is rapidly gaining in popularity as a free web-based presentation tool offering a very different way to develop and present information. Yulia Aspinall examines what makes this tool popular, what it offers that PowerPoint doesn't, and how Prezi can give presenters' ideas and stories additional impact, greater memorability and lead to better audience clarity.
Beyond the Pale: Researching Non-Text Resources and Grey Literature
12th June 2013
Grey literature is material created by government, academics, non-profits and industry that exists outside the traditional publishing model. Non-text grey literature includes a wide variety of items, from audiovisual media and presentations to technical reports and tweets. Finding non-text research resources is not easy, many of the formats are non-traditional text, image or multimedia-based so they are not easily found using traditional database search tools. Cindy Elliott provides some suggestions on starting your search to find non-text grey literature.
Financial News Publishers Take On LinkedIn and Twitter
11th June 2013
It seems that traditional print publishers have realised that if you can't beat the rapid-fire news coverage of social media platforms, you may as well join them. This was demonstrated in recent weeks by The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and the Financial Times, who have respectively announced and launched social media tools WSJ Profile, BloombergCurrent and fastFT to take on LinkedIn and Twitter.
BYOD... Saving Money, But At What Cost?
10th June 2013
Several FreePint editors, including myself, have written articles recently about how the idea of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is changing the corporate IT landscape. BYOD provides many opportunities for companies including potential cost savings, but is there a downside to BYOD that we're only now seeing? How can companies COPE?
ThinkStoryline! - Putting the Conclusion at the Heart of the Presentation
7th June 2013
Defining customer goals and presenting research outcomes in a customer-friendly format is arguably as important as the quality of the information itself. Yulia Aspinall explores ThinkStoryline!© and explains how using this approach will improve your presentations, leading to higher customer satisfaction and customers gaining a better understanding of the data and its implications.
Source Update June 2013: What's Happening with ProQuest?
6th June 2013
This month's additions and developments in ProQuest, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.
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