Mini Review: Dodge BuildShare
30th January 2013

Jan Knight reviews Dodge BuildShare™, a set of online dashboards that provide information to the construction and building industry.  As an independent, objective resource, the product provides valuable market forecasts as well as detailed information on upcoming and current building projects along with market forecasts, company information, regional data and forecasts and contact information for key personnel involved in the construction industry.

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Mini Review: Lexis Advance
30th January 2013

John DiGilio reviews Lexis Advance, the newest and most innovative version of the LexisNexis legal research platform. From its interface to its functionality and pricing, it is casting the company and the way legal researchers work in a new light. Single search capabilities, powerful filtering, and a pay-for-what-you-use approach are the hallmarks of LexisNexis’ latest offering.

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FreePint Report: Compliance Sampler
30th January 2013

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Mini Review: Nexis Media Coverage Analyzer
29th January 2013

For media professionals, reviewing media coverage is an essential but often time-consuming aspect of their role. Robin Neidorf reviews Nexis Media Coverage Analyzer, a sophisticated tool which uses citation data and metadata to provide visual reports on trends and changes in media coverage, helping PR and communications professionals to identify which media campaigns are working most effectively, which need to be tweaked, and to analyse competitor activity.

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Picking Videos Fresh From the Vine
28th January 2013

Last week (24 January) Twitter introduced Vine - an application that allows Twitter users to share 6-second looping videos within embedded tweets. So, is video going to be the next big thing for Twitter? And what does Vine offer information professionals?

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Mini Review: Udini
28th January 2013

Researchers often require the kind of high quality research and news articles available from an academic library but don’t always have access to those services. Yulia Aspinall reviews Udini from ProQuest, a vast database of high quality articles available in a variety of options from Pay As You Go to monthly subscription. As well as access to news articles, research, conference proceedings et al, it also offers a variety of useful ways to work with those articles, from commenting to sharing with colleagues.

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Using Facebook Graph Search in Your Professional Capacity
25th January 2013

We've all been wondering what the big announcement from Facebook was going to be, was it going to be a phone or a TV Channel? No, it turns out Facebook's big announcement was for a new internal search engine called "Graph Search". So, why should information professionals get excited about Graph Search?

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Mini Review: Keylight 3.0
23rd January 2013

Penny Crossland reviews LockPath's Keylight 3.0 platform, a cloud-based workflow tool in the governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) space. The platform consists of a combination of 400+ pre-populated authority documents covering regulations, standards and guidelines for more than 38 countries, and sophisticated and flexible reporting facilities, making this an end-user friendly tool for anybody managing compliance and risk.

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Mini Review: Bloomberg Government
23rd January 2013

Jan Knight reviews Bloomberg Government, a robust, web-based information source that sits at the "intersection of business and government" and where users can find news related to government, business, industry, and in the same product search for, or keep up-to-date with, legislation, regulation and government contracts.

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Can You Lengthen Your Skills Ladder?
23rd January 2013

Despite the uncertain economic times, there do seem to be potential opportunities for information professionals. Companies are concerned to build up the information architecture they will need to deal with mobile, social and cloud developments. There’s greater emphasis on compliance, big data and the monetising of information assets, and concern about the continuing risks of rapidly spreading disinformation. So, with learning new skills the top goal of respondents in a recent LinkedIn survey, perhaps now would be a good time for information professionals to do the same.

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