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| • | What’s best for the business news reader? | With scarcely a murmur, the Financial Times has shut down Newssift, the semantic based global business news aggregator it launched almost exactly a year ago. It’s just the latest turn of the screw in the malaise facing business news generally.
In marked contrast to its upbeat launch (http://www.vivavip.com/go/e17206), the FT ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
19/Mar/10
12:48 |
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| • | SIIA Brownbag: Twitter for Corporate Use | | On Wednesday the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) hosted a brownbag lunch called 'It's not about Ashton and Oprah: how to engage a professional audience using Twitter'. The topic couldn't be more timely; as Twitter usage soars, companies are trying to figure out exactly how to leverage the tool ... |
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Nancy Davis Kho |
18/Mar/10
19:28 |
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| • | Bells and whistles or cultural change? | Fragmented IT systems bear a key responsibility for the financial crisis, according to a survey from Thomson Reuters and the independent research firm Lepus. But the risks the report highlights actually go way beyond the trading floor, affecting every aspect of a business’s effectiveness.
Surveying data management strategies at over ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
18/Mar/10
07:07 |
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| • | Opportunities and threats | | The global economic recession has added to pressures on information managers, who are having to justify budgets and indeed entire services. It is refreshing, therefore, to see the good news stories coming out of one service – the British Library Business & IP Centre – and learn from how they ... |
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Anne Jordan |
17/Mar/10
16:26 |
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| • | Fools rush in? UK digital economy bill | | All governments and societies want to be successful in the digital world. In the UK the government produced their plan - Digital Britain in 2009 (http://digbig.com/5bbgaw). In recent LiveWire postings there has been commentary on the way in which the government and the public sector can or will ... |
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Joanna Ptolomey |
17/Mar/10
13:25 |
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| • | Privacy – opportunities for infopros | | Not only is protecting personal information on your customers, suppliers and staff a legal requirement, it’s also good for business. That’s the message from the United Kingdom Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), in a new report which also makes as convincing a case for the value of information managers as ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
17/Mar/10
07:12 |
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| • | Alacra PulsePro gets a boost | Today Alacra Inc. (http://www.alacra.com) announced a major upgrade to its subscription a current awareness and idea generation tool for financial and professional services executives, Alacra PulsePro. The company has long touted the 'freemium' model with AlacraPulse, which filters both traditional media and blogs to extract actionable intelligence on business ... |
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Nancy Davis Kho |
16/Mar/10
16:57 |
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| • | Hoovers gets more personal | | For a while now, Livewire contributors have been following Hoovers’ (http://www.Hoovers.com) development from a basic company database to a sophisticated business development tool. Along the way, Hoovers has added on various features, such as a mobile interface ( http://www.vivavip.com/go/e19885) and its Jobseekers Report (http://www.vivavip.com/go/e26261) Each new feature has contributed towards ... |
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Penny Crossland |
16/Mar/10
14:07 |
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| • | Febrile times in legal and tax | | While the legal, tax and regulatory sector continues to face difficult trading conditions it’s also innovating furiously, with both consumers and the back office firmly in its sights. There’s been a little crop of announcements from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters in the last month or so alone – but ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
16/Mar/10
08:32 |
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| • | Compliance Research Initial Results | Read about the initial results on the FreePint Compliance Research project at http://www.freepint.com/go/b530870
- What regulatory frameworks are of most interest?
- How satisfied are users with the products available to help them maintain compliance?
- What's happening with budget and staffing to support regulatory compliance?
These are only a handful of the data points ...
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Robin Neidorf |
11/Mar/10
17:10 |
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| • | Google's View of Newspaper Economics | | On Tuesday, Hal Varian, Google's chief economist, posted some views on the company's public policy blog regarding the demise of the newspaper industry, in conjunction with a US Federal Trade Commission workshop on the future of the industry (http://digbig.com/5bbfhg). While Google clearly has a horse in the race for ... |
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Nancy Davis Kho |
10/Mar/10
18:34 |
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| • | Corporate tweeting could fall foul of regulator | | Two thirds of the complaints that the Advertising Standards Authority receives about online marketing activity are currently outside its remit because they relate to statements made on companies’ own websites. Now the United Kingdom’s self-regulated advertising industry intends to plug that gap with a proposal to extend regulation from ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
10/Mar/10
15:02 |
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| • | First signs of a quality backlash? | | Juggling ever increasing demands with static or declining budgets, information managers are well used to making the most of free information. But one FreePint survey last year found a trade-off between using free sources and the time taken in finding and vetting them (http://www.vivavip.com/go/e20979) – and another showed that, ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
7/Mar/10
12:43 |
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| • | Someone, somewhere, really wants you to know | | Companies spend vast sums protecting their intellectual property when it would be more cost-effective simply to let people have it. That’s the proposition behind a new report from Deloitte – and it raises all sorts of implications for the way researchers gather intelligence and what they choose to pay ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
6/Mar/10
08:27 |
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| • | Be ‘Fluent’, capture the sentiment | Late last year we saw the arrival of the ‘Google Sidewiki’ and I pondered the effects on brand reputation for the LiveWire [http://www.vivavip.com/go/e25260]. The reality is that Sidewiki is just one of many tools for measuring sentiments about brands or social influence marketing.
If you are unfamiliar with sentiment analysis ... |
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Joanna Ptolomey |
5/Mar/10
13:42 |
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| • | Twitter Firehose: Set to ON | | Sometime today, Twitter is expected to crest an impressive benchmark: its ten billionth tweet. As reported first on Mashable (http://digbig.com/5bbdwh), the site has gone from four to ten billion tweets in the space of only four months - impressive by any measure. Here's a handy counter if you want ... |
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Nancy Davis Kho |
3/Mar/10
18:15 |
| • | Re: Twitter Firehose: Set to ON | Thanks for mentioning the 'curating' process attached to all this content. At the Edge 2010 conference last week in Edinburgh there was much talk around this very process.
There may be an ever increasing way to get content feed, but the same old issues arise. We don't ... |
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Joanna Ptolomey |
5/Mar/10
12:51 |
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| • | Corporate whistleblower leaking dangerously | | Evidence that all was not well at Wikileaks – the confidential not-for-profit site for leaking corporate and government secrets – has been emerging for a month or more. Now the site has announced that it has suspended all operations other than fundraising, and is currently offering no access to ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
1/Feb/10
18:23 |
| • | Re: Corporate whistleblower leaking dangerously | | Wikileaks (http://www.wikileaks.org) has now started releasing time-sensitive documents ahead of its relaunch, including several relating to the Icesave banking crisis in anticipation of the Icelandic referendum due on Saturday March 6. |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
5/Mar/10
11:08 |
| • | Re: Corporate whistleblower leaking dangerously | | Wikileaks has now reported on Twitter that it has achieved its minimum fundraising goal (http://twitter.com/wikileaks/statuses/8613426708) although it is currently still not offering access to its files of leaked documents. |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
8/Feb/10
14:42 |
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| • | Is online the future for B2B publishing? | | With the decline in the advertising market, the B2B print sector has been going through rough times lately. Late last year, Haymarket announced the closure of Media Week’s print edition (http://digbig.com/5bbeeh) and last month, Terrapinn’s Total Telecom magazine ceased its print publication entirely( http://digbig.com/5bbeeg ), opting to hang on to ... |
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Penny Crossland |
4/Mar/10
15:32 |
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| • | Legal and tax – over the worst? | | Following hard on the heels of sobering results from LexisNexis’s owner Reed Elsevier (http://www.vivavip.com/go/e27969), year-end figures from competitors Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer only serve to confirm the intensely difficult time the legal, tax, regulatory and accounting sector is facing as the recession continues. Both companies use the same ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
3/Mar/10
15:54 |
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| • | Directories re-launch | In the last month, two directories from the Reed Business Information stable – the UK franchise of Kompass and trade directory Kellysearch – have announced new, improved online sites, with both giving far more emphasis to request for quotes services in an attempt to woo advertisers.
The new Kompass site is ... |
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Anne Jordan |
3/Mar/10
12:35 |
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