Product Review of InsideView: Introduction and FreePint's View
16th April 2013

Prospecting for sales leads and the inevitable cold calling is a tough task but it's a vital part of any business operation. Jan Knight reviews InsideView, an award-winning sales intelligence tool which aims to make the process more effective by providing sales and marketing specialists with critical business insights to allow them to contact the right person at the right time... and with the right message.

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Technology Talent + Softer Skills = Ideal Candidate?
15th April 2013

Information technology talent may be in short supply, according to a new survey from Forbes Insights. But other reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit and Gartner suggest that there is an equally pressing need to recruit skilled people who can interpret big data or foster collaboration using corporate social media. Significantly, there’s also one call for information resources to be pooled in a central unit, providing insights across the whole organisation and directly to the highest level executives.

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Elsevier Acquires Mendeley - Sell-out or Wise Move?
15th April 2013

So publishing disruptor Mendeley has been sold to STM establishment giant Elsevier. A Twitter campaign encouraging users to delete their Mendeley account has already begun but should researchers bide their time and see whether open access advocate Mendeley has really sold out or made a wise move which will benefit its founders and researchers alike, bringing users access to more content and faster development?

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Elsevier and Mendeley: What Will the Future Bring?
12th April 2013

Elsevier has acquired Mendeley. An established global publishing house purchasing a young edutech open access advocate may not seem the most likely pairing. Victor Camlek explores the factors that could make this a fairytale wedding or a short and rocky relationship.

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Have Social Intranets Failed to Live Up to Their Hype?
11th April 2013

If you're an intranet manager there's no doubt that you're excited, if not overjoyed, about the potential of a social intranet. However, have social intranets caught on as much as we might have expected them to? Renowned intranet guru, and author of the Digital Workplace Trends Report, Jane McConnell doesn't think so.

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The Smartphone: Mini Missile in the Competitive Intelligence War
10th April 2013

Technology has always been at the forefront of new developments in CI techniques, and the smartphone has provided a new dimension in intelligence-gathering techniques. GPS capabilities, barcode-scanning, cameras and mapping tools are all innovations which, when some creativity is applied, can be used to gather sophisticated intelligence about the competition.

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Product Review of ReportLinker: Executive Summary
10th April 2013

If you're looking for a comprehensive global resource that covers public and private data, ReportLinker could be the ideal search engine for you. The company has developed a search algorithm using semantic technology that offers refined search capacities, mining research and data-driven documents that are hidden in the deep web, essential when 200,000 public sources and 450 private research publishers are at your fingertips.

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How to Identify what Intranet Users Want
10th April 2013

James Mullan considers how intranet managers can really understand what intranet users want. He explores a variety of tools and research techniques such as card sorting and focus groups, to help draw information from intranet users. Intranet managers can then truly put themselves into their users' shoes to allow them to develop and refine the intranet to better meet user needs.

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FreePint Report: Product Review of ReportLinker
9th April 2013

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Product Review of ReportLinker: Help, Pricing, Contact & Conclusion
9th April 2013

The final part of Aileen Marshall's review of ReportLinker describes the help options available from phone to email or FAQ as well as the variety of purchase options available from Pay As You Go to subscription.

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