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 | RIP CiG | | Little more than a month after the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals announced that it would merge protectively with the Frost & Sullivan Foundation (http://www.vivavip.com/go/e20095), the recession has claimed another professional association. In an email circulated to members and supporters on 1 July, the London based City Information Group ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
2/Jul/09
06:51 |
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| | Outsourcing to move up the corporate agenda? | | Outsourcing of research and information jobs continues to cause apprehension among information teams. Despite these concerns, a new FreePint VIP Survey on Outsourcing (free to VIP subscribers, other purchase details at http://web.vivavip.com/go/shop/report/1402), shows that, even among those who are outsourcing, 75% of their work remains in-house.
Conducted jointly with outsourcing ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
1/Jul/09
05:45 |
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| | NewsGator, Cataphora: opportunities for infopros | | Email has been getting a bad press as an inefficient time-waster that can perpetuate the most egregious forms of office politics for some time. But now a new marketing pitch from one business computing solutions provider – NewsGator – lays into it head-on.
The occasion is the launch of two ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
29/Jun/09
16:10 |
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| | More cost pressures on news | | Licensing for reuse of newspaper content is set to extend to web sites from next year. The Newspaper Licensing Agency, which authorises reuse of items from many United Kingdom news sources, has said that web aggregators that charge clients for their services will require an NLA licence from this ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
27/Jun/09
14:23 |
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| | White Papers for LinkedIn members | | We have reported previously on LinkedIn’s entry into business information territory – see Tim Buckley Owen’s posting on the relentless advance of the business networking site (http://www.vivavip.com/go/e15777) and Diana Nutting’s report on LinkedIn’s partnership with Hoover’s (http://www.vivavip.com/go/e18919).
Now we hear that LinkedIn has added a feature to its advertising programme, ... |
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Penny Crossland |
25/Jun/09
12:42 |
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| | SIIA presentation: Hot Content Platforms | | In another of its excellent lunchtime panel series, the Software Information Industry Association (www.siia.net) today tackled emergent mobile platforms in a talk aimed at publishers entitled 'Google, Kindle, iPhone: How to Leverage Hot Content Delivery Platforms for Profits'. Moderated by Shore Communications' John Blossom, the panelists included Alisa Bowen, SVP ... |
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Nancy Davis Kho |
25/Jun/09
01:00 |
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| | Twitter – the source for breaking news | | Recent events in Iran will surely have convinced those last remaining Twitter detractors of its value in news dissemination. With parts of the Iranian mobile network disabled and television state-controlled, the internet became the medium used for organizing opposition to the aftermath of the election. Twitter, in particular, was used ... |
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Penny Crossland |
22/Jun/09
11:23 |
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| | Online content from the Middle East | | I am always on the look out for new information sources about emerging economies, and I recently came across the US based service East View Information Services (http://www.eastview.com) for the first time. It is a provider of information products and services in world languages and English translation, which has ... |
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Diana Nutting |
21/Jun/09
12:18 |
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| | Free sources are infopros' lifeline | | Information professionals are depending increasingly on free sources to cope with dramatically reduced or eliminated budgets – but, perhaps surprisingly, staffing remains generally stable. These are among the key findings of a survey carried out by Free Pint Ltd for J J Keller & Associates, the leading North American ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
20/Jun/09
09:00 |
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| | Trying to connect you... | | With a business model largely unchanged throughout much of the twentieth century, the wonder is that it’s taken so long to shake up the telephone directory industry. Now not one but two initiatives have come along at once – and one of them has privacy campaigners up in arms.
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Tim Buckley Owen |
20/Jun/09
06:19 |
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| | Graceful living maven leads way in pay-to-play | | Making good on a new business model she began promoting earlier this spring, Martha Stewart's company Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE:MSO) has rolled out its first foray into pay-to-download video on www.marthastewart.com. The section of the site dubbed Martha University (http://digbig.com/4yxyw) provides interested readers with how-to videos on topics like ... |
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Nancy Davis Kho |
17/Jun/09
21:41 |
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| | British Library Business & IP Centre | | For those of us in London the British Library Business and Intellectual Property Centre is an invaluable resource for market reports and trade publications as well as for patent information. But there is also useful information, on the Centre’s newly relaunched website.
The website has been re-designed with new ... |
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Diana Nutting |
17/Jun/09
17:17 |
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| | Business information from the Middle East | | As a due diligence researcher I am always to eager to learn about sources for hard-to-find information. Therefore, it was with interest that I read about the addition of Arabia Inform (http://www.arabiainform.com) to East View Information Services’ (http://www.eastview.com) online content.
Arabia Inform, a well-established provider of media monitoring services and ... |
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Penny Crossland |
16/Jun/09
11:58 |
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| | STM resources for business researchers | | A couple of new developments in the STM sector are worth mentioning: Knowledgespeak (http://www.knowledgespeak.com), the Indian-based STM news service and intelligence resource run by Scope e-Knowledge Center (http://www.scopeknowledge.com) has relaunched with additional functionalities.
The resource is now part of the K-store platform, which includes current and archived news, interviews with ... |
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Penny Crossland |
15/Jun/09
11:56 |
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| | Know thy frenemy | | A trend for corporations to do away with their libraries and information professionals is just one of the many threats facing the Big Three – Dialog, Factiva and LexisNexis – according to a report from information consultant Outsell (outline at http://digbig.com/4yxqh). Although this trend seems to be slowing as ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
13/Jun/09
08:23 |
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| | Piracy - French court says "not so fast" | | Last month the French National Assembly, with support from President Nicolas Sarkozy passed a "three strikes" bill which would get digital pirates where it hurts - in their Internet access. http://digbig.com/4yxes The French bill, which passed by a 296 to 233 margin after being rejected a month earlier, stipulates that ... |
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Nancy Davis Kho |
11/Jun/09
22:43 |
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| | New Google Earth features | | In February we reported on interesting new features available with Google Earth’s version 5.0 (http://www.vivavip.com/go/e16323), now techcrunch.com (http://digbig.com/4yxcx) has alerted us to a new application which will be useful to business information researchers.
A new ‘businesses’ layer has been added to Google Earth on the ... |
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Penny Crossland |
11/Jun/09
13:15 |
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| | Twittering seriously | | Yet more exhortation to business to take social networking seriously – as if more were needed – comes now in the form of a Thought Leadership Presentation from Reed Seminars, called What Executives Need to Know About Social Networking: understanding how Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other sites can be used ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
11/Jun/09
08:33 |
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| | Getting the Edge on Global Data | | Let’s face it: Conducting international business research can be a stressful undertaking. Often the most challenging part is getting your bearings and getting started.
This is why I like the globalEDGE portal from Michigan State University. It’s a great place to get basic info and quickly identify resources ... |
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Gary Price |
9/Jun/09
18:42 |
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| | Twitter to introduce 'Verified Accounts' | | Twitter is touted as an innovative new channel for broadcasting directly to consumers, a means of building a perception of a personal relationship between a celebrity, a brand, or an organization and its fans or detractors. Used properly, the argument goes, the microblogging service enables companies to engender trust and ... |
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Nancy Davis Kho |
8/Jun/09
18:23 |
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