FreePint Research Puts Your Needs in Context

It's always difficult to create useful comparisons of your emerging needs, budget and staff pressures and content requirements to those of your peers. FreePint Research helps by conducting periodic studies, based on input from our global community of 100,000 information practitioners on such topics as:

• Which products you use and why
  
• How budget pressures impact operations
  
• Emerging needs in skills, content, and resources
  
• Attitudes and expectations

We announce all survey opportunities through our publications and invite all users to participate. All survey participants receive a free copy of the published results of the survey they completed, for benchmarking and planning purposes.

We also conduct bespoke research. Email your query to Robin Neidorf, robin.neidorf@freepint.com, for further information.

Current Surveys:

• News Needs and Preferences: a user study on the entire food 
• chain for news content; results to be published in November
•  2010 as part of our annual comparative review of news products from
•  major vendors; participate now.
• Enterprise Market for Mobile Content: We know the world is going mobile, but how quickly might that trend pentrate the enterprise market? End users are invited to share their behaviours and preferences with regard to business content on their mobile devices. Participate now. 

Past Surveys:

• Economic Impact: Year 2 of FreePint Research into how content budgets and information staff have been affected by the economic environment. Results published as the FreePint Research Report: Economic Impact.

• Buying Patterns: How do information managers make decisions about what content, resources and services to purchase? We learned directly from the buyers, and published the results as FreePint Research Report: Buying Patterns (free upon request)

• UK Law Firm Purchasing Preferences: As a distinct buyer group, UK-based major law firms have specific needs and preferences for purchasing content. FreePint Research: UK Law Firm Purchasing Preferences

• Copyright Policies and Practices: A first-of-its-kind benchmark on how organisations are managing their risks relating to copyright; Phase 1 asked information managers about policies and Phase 2 asked end users what they are actually doing in practice. Published in a single report as the FreePint Research Report: Copyright Policies and Practices.

• News Content: Needs and Preferences: Gain insight into how business information centres and researchers prefer to find, access, search and use news content, from both free and fee sources. Results published as the VIP Report: Survey on News Needs and Preferences.

• Taxonomies and Tagging: Share knowledge and insight on taxonomies and tagging within the enterprise. Results published as part of the FUMSI Report: Folio on Taxonomies and Tagging.

• Knowledge Management: Has KM 'come of age'? Or is it still finding its way? Share your ideas, practices and challenges, and compare to others in the field. Results published as part of the FUMSI Report: Folio on Knowledge Management.

• Economic Impact: How are information departments weathering the economic storm? Share anonymously about budgets, staffing and resources, and compare your situation to those of your peers. Published September 2009 as VIP Report on User Feedback: Economic Impact Research.

• Alternative Search: What are your priorities when you search the free web? What tools are in your tool kit? Learn about how your resources compare with others in the field. Results published as part of the FUMSI Report: Folio on Alternative Search Engines.

• Social Media: A FUMSI survey on attitudes, adoption, policies and needs with regard to social media in the enterprise. Results published as part of the FUMSI Report: Folio on Social Media in the Enterprise.

• Intranet Management: A FUMSI survey on current practices in developing, maintaining and enhancing corporate intranets. Results published alongside the June FUMSI Report: Folio on Intranet Management.

• Adding Value: A FUMSI survey on how information practitioners add value to their work. Results published alongside the May issue of FUMSI Magazine and the FUMSI Report: Folio on Adding Value.

• Outsourcing Study: FreePint partnered with Integreon to understand your perceptions and experiences regarding outsourcing. 

• Big Three User Survey: As part of our annual Big Three review (news products from Dialog, Dow Jones and LexisNexis), FreePint conducted a survey of user preferences, feedback and needs. The full report was made available to all VIP Magazine subscribers and is available for purchase.
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