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Mini Review: Duedil
Thursday, 23rd May 2013
Duedil is an internet start-up with a mission to make open source official company data transparent. The database covers all UK and Irish corporate filings, 100 million in all, and with sophisticated visualisation tools and clever linking of social media has managed to produce a useful tool for company and due diligence researchers. This review analyses the service, highlights some of the finer points and points to aspects that still need improving.
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Information purchasing
- Regulatory compliance
- Research
- Company sources
- Financial sources
- Social media sources
Moving from an Info Pro To a Big Data Career: Big Deal or Big Headache?
Wednesday, 22nd May 2013
As studies show a shortage of big data experts and an estimated 4 million roles in the sector predicted by 2018, Victor Camlek considers what big data jobs are likely to involve and which attributes and skills are required of information professionals considering a move into the world of big data.
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Information strategy
- Training
Mobile Strategy in the Investments Business
Tuesday, 21st May 2013
Carlos Ramon of retirement investments provider VALIC tells FreePint how the company developed a mobile app to allow its customers to check their fund positions, get news updates and contact their financial adviser. He also provides valuable tips for other organisations considering their own mobile strategy, whether for smartphones or tablets.
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Mobile
- Workflow tools
Law Librarians and Content Choices
Monday, 20th May 2013
As Thomson Reuters continues to assimilate PLC into its business post acquisition, FreePint interviews members of the senior management team to find out how PLC's offering can support the changing structure of law firms and the increasingly strategic role of legal information professionals.
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Information strategy
- Information purchasing
- Legal sources
LinkedIn Today - Another News Aggregator on the Block
Monday, 20th May 2013
LinkedIn's recent purchase of the Pulse news app appeared to signal a move towards news aggregation. This was confirmed last week, when the business networking site launched a revamp of its social news service, LinkedIn Today. Users can now read content from credible news sources covering a range of business categories.
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News sources
- Social media sources
Assimilation Time for Thomson Reuters and PLC
Monday, 20th May 2013
When Practical Law Company (PLC) was acquired by Thomson Reuters (TR) earlier this year, information professionals in the legal sector raised a number of issues and concerns. Robin Neidorf interviews key figures to find out how PLC is complementing TR's strategic goals for the legal sector and to obtain more detail of those plans.
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Information purchasing
- Legal sources
NewsEdge Delivered to the Palm of Your Hand
Monday, 20th May 2013
Delivering news headlines to mobile devices nowadays seems straightforward but early adopters TD Bank and NewsEdge have been delivering headlines and full text articles (on seamless click-through) to BlackBerrys since 2006. Linda Larsen tells FreePint how the service came about and gives us a glimpse of the information research centre's plans for the future.
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Mobile
- Workflow tools
Encouraging Collaboration Within Law Firms
Friday, 17th May 2013
Failure, that's a horrible word to use at the start of an article. But that's essentially what this article is going to be about and, more specifically, why (some say) internal collaboration tools within law firms are doomed to fail. However, failure can also be useful in understanding how tools such as intranets, or collaboration tools like Confluence, are used and what could drive future projects to success.
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Collaborative and social tools
- Knowledge management
- Intranets
Privacy - Don't Hold Your Breath
Friday, 17th May 2013
The discovery that Bloomberg News journalists have been making use of customer data raises broader privacy issues. Associated Press has complained about secret use of its telephone records by the United States Justice Department and the British polling organisation Ipsos MORI has been exposed trying to sell anonymised data from the mobile phone service EE to the London police. How effective is anonymisation, should internet service providers shield user data from the authorities and are some websites’ privacy notices designed merely to protect the providers?
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Information services management
- Regulatory compliance
Taxpayer-Funded Research - Cheaper but Trickier?
Wednesday, 15th May 2013
Research Councils UK in Britain, and the Office of Science & Technology in the United States, have each instructed bodies that use taxpayers' money to fund research to start making all that research available free to users. This follows the Affordable Subscriptions for Periodicals campaign originally launched by Research Libraries UK and a new study published on ArXiv which concludes that the future of "elite" academic journal publishers may be doubt. More open access could mean a substantial reduction in costs for information professionals charged with acquiring research, but may also leave them with the challenge of deciding what's worth having.
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Research
- Government sources
- Scientific, technical, medical sources
Do Intranets Really Need to be Social?
Tuesday, 14th May 2013
Social intranets have promised a lot but they have to some extent failed to deliver on this promise - so are social features such as activity streams, profiles and forums really necessary for internal communication? James Mullan reviews what you need to consider when planning to implement social tools on an intranet.
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Collaborative and social tools
- Intranets
Gleaning Competitive Intelligence from Crowdfunding
Tuesday, 14th May 2013
With the US JOBS Act opening up the crowdfunding market to venture capital in the US, the business world has taken notice of the new market. This article suggests that crowdfunding platforms (based on the combination of crowdsourcing and microfinance) offer access to open source market data - ready to be mined by information professionals.
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Research
- Company sources
- Competitive intelligence
- Financial sources
- Social media sources
Big Data - Time To Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone?
Monday, 13th May 2013
Recent reports by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and Cisco about the importance of mastering big data for future corporate success should represent opportunities for information managers. Yet the latest Business Information Review (BIR) survey shows that information services are, as yet, little involved in big data projects. BIR also highlights other areas where info pros may be missing out, and reports that the most successful information services are the ones that are adding value through activities well outside their comfort zone.
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Collaborative and social tools
- Research
- Training
Mini Review: Statista
Wednesday, 8th May 2013
If you love statistics and quantitative data, you need to check out Statista. Statista, Inc. is a leading online statistics provider covering a wide range of industries and topics and whose product provides an almost dizzying array of statistical charts, tables and reports on a large number of industries and topics from administration and agriculture to travel and tourism.
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Information services management
- Information purchasing
- Research
- Government sources
- Industry sources
- Search
Source Update May 2013: What's Happening with Nexis?
Wednesday, 8th May 2013
This month's additions and takedowns in Nexis, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.
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Information purchasing
- Research
- News sources
- Search
Credit Where Credit Is Due
Tuesday, 7th May 2013
In contrast to investment ratings agencies such as Standard & Poors, consumer credit reporting services get a relatively clean bill of health, according to a report by the United States Policy & Economic Research Council (PERC) which compares its own assessment with another by the Federal Trade Commission. However, the low percentage of errors could still amount to a lot of missed business opportunities considering the number of credit subjects involved – a situation quite likely exacerbated by findings from FindLaw showing that over 20% of Americans have never bothered to check their credit scores for accuracy.
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Regulatory compliance
- Company sources
- Financial sources
- People sources
Source Update May 2013: What's Happening with Eureka.cc and Europresse.com?
Tuesday, 7th May 2013
This month's additions and takedowns in Eureka.cc and Europresse.com, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan. Europresse.com is the European version of the Eureka.cc solution.
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Information purchasing
- Research
- News sources
- Search
IMS Acquires Semantelli, a Potential Big Data Booster Shot
Tuesday, 7th May 2013
Supplier of pharmaceutical trending information, IMS Health, has acquired social media analytics firm Semantelli. Victor Camlek examines the possibilities for big data analytics from the deal and the likely benefits for IMS customers.
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Research
- Company sources
- Competitive intelligence
- Scientific, technical, medical sources
- Social media sources
Is It Time to Give Google+ Another Go?
Monday, 6th May 2013
There are still a lot of misconceptions about what Google+ is and how it can be used. James Mullan asks whether it is time to give Google+ another go and explores facets such as Communities, Circles and Sparks and how they can be used in a professional context. He also looks into the way that Google+ lends itself to smartphone and iPad use.
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Collaborative and social tools
- People sources
- Social media sources
Source Update May 2013: What's Happening with Factiva?
Monday, 6th May 2013
This month's additions and takedowns in Factiva, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.
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Information purchasing
- Research
- News sources
- Search
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