Privacy - Comply If You Want to Stay in Business
3rd February 2014

Privacy and data protection remain hot issues, likely to impose greater costs and regulatory burdens on business. The European Commission has given the United States Department of Commerce until summer to come up with improvements to the Safe Harbor scheme, and the Federal Trade Commission has issued assurances that the scheme is a priority. Meanwhile the heads of the US Department of Justice and National Security Agency have just agreed to allow internet companies to disclose more to the public about official demands for personal data, and Microsoft has broken ranks with competitors by allowing customer data to be stored outside the US.

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Tapping into Your Social Network Using Jelly
3rd February 2014

Jelly might sound like a recipe for disaster, but actually this is the latest application to be launched by the founder of Twitter, Biz Stone. The application is built around the question and answer concept but with a focus on the visual through photographs and images. Many people will ask whether there is a space for Jelly in the social search market given that Ask.com, Quora, Yahoo! Answers, Google Answers and even Facebook have all failed to succeed with their social search offerings.

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Decoding the CODiE Awards: The Best Legal Information Solution
31st January 2014

This week the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced the winner of the Best Legal Information Solution category of the 2014 CODiE awards. As an expert reviewer for the category this year, John DiGilio gives an insight into the five products he reviewed: Bloomberg Law Business Development Center, Innography, Lawyers.com, Lexis Practice Advisor, and Workshare Professional 8, one of which was chosen as the winner of the coveted CODiE.

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FreePint Report: Information Services Management Monthly Update (January 2014)
31st January 2014

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Making Social Succeed: What Organisations Need To Do
30th January 2014

To make it more likely for social tools to succeed in the enterprise there are several measures which organisations can take to encourage adoption and underpin use. Steve Bynghall explains moves which organisations can make to help social succeed either for a new launch, or a programme that has lost direction, and provides useful next steps.

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Product Review of Transactional Track Record (TTR): Executive Summary
29th January 2014

Transactional Track Record (TTR) is a deals intelligence service specialising in Spanish and Portuguese language market activity. Business research expert Perrin Kerravala provides an overview of the product, its key features and value that it can offer information professionals as well as non-expert searchers. She explains what will make it especially appealing to C-levels, senior management, and strategy advisers.

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FreePint Report: Product Review of Transactional Track Record
29th January 2014

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FreePint Report: Product Review of EMISPRO
28th January 2014

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Product Review of EMISPRO: Executive Summary
27th January 2014

ISI's Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS) has been rebuilt and EMISPRO has been launched as professional version of the product aimed at investment bankers, researchers, credit analysts and business development users. The product provides a range of sophisticated tools for analysing its extensive collection of emerging markets content. In his executive summary Andrew Lucas gives his view on the value offered, product highlights and key sources included.

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Social Media Habits We Should ALL Develop in 2014
27th January 2014

It's a new year, so naturally we're all looking at ways in which we can refresh and improve what we do. Unfortunately it can take some time to adopt life-changing habits - whether that's to stop doing something unhealthy or start doing something more healthy. When it comes to social media such as blogs, Facebook and LinkedIn, the same is true. Fortunately there are lots of practical things individuals can undertake to improve or start using social media tools.

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