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The cloud - more secure than we think? Wednesday, 16th May 2012 More companies are adopting the cloud and finding they save time and money in terms of security management. Government worries about cloud computing relating to privacy, security and data flow may be overstated, and the cloud may eventually become more important to individuals than their personal computers. Posted in: Information strategy - Regulatory compliance - Compliance tools - Content management LinkedIn buys SlideShare - a boost for CI researchers Tuesday, 15th May 2012 LinkedIn has recently purchased Talent Pipeline and now SlideShare. SlideShare is an invaluable tool for recruiters, business development managers and competitive intelligence researchers as it contains PowerPoint presentations, product plans and hard-to-find facts and insights. Posted in: Competitive intelligence - Research - Company information - Competitive intelligence - Industry information - Information sharing - Market information - People information - Search - Social media Social CRM - how do you pick the winners? Monday, 14th May 2012 Software solutions for social customer relationship management are the latest concern for organisations who are finding it difficult to pick the right one. Exploiting the results companies get from their customers is also proving tricky, and getting a full return on investment may be hard to achieve. Posted in: PR and external communications - Market information - Social media Is open access to science research one step further? Friday, 11th May 2012 Academic publishers continue to thrive behind their paywalls but this may all change with a UK government initiative to make research freely available. Additionally, an independent working group will report in June on open access, and there are other international plans and programmes afoot. Posted in: Research - Information sharing - Scientific, technical, medical Thursday, 10th May 2012 Ratings agencies Kroll and Bertelsmann continue their advance in the established sovereign ratings market to try to challenge the big players. However, competition may be strong in Europe and the reputation of sovereign raters compares unfavourably with those assessing the creditworthiness of businesses and individuals. Posted in: Regulatory compliance - Research - Company information - Financial information - Government information Predators snap at LinkedIn's heels Tuesday, 1st May 2012 Online recruiting via social media now looks for passive as well as active candidates. LinkedIn launches Talent Pipeline and Monster announces increased in bookings, but Facebook retains its popularity, with its BranchOut app passing the 25 million user mark. Posted in: Information services management - Information sharing - Mobile - People information - Social media Never mind the clever stuff; what about the fundamentals? Monday, 30th April 2012 While huge potential now available for exploiting enormous data masses looks set to go, it seems that proper corporate transparency is far from settled. Regulatory regimes to ensure companies are subject to the same exposure as individuals are not in place, and information professionals should take note. Posted in: Information services management - Regulatory compliance - Company information - Financial information - People information - Workflow tools Translation tools bring back the human element Sunday, 29th April 2012 Two new translation services concentrating on quality are announced. Worldcrunch extends its English service to leading French and German newspapers and also international sources. Another new service, Ackuna, lets users submit text to a community of translators covering 15 languages. Posted in: Collaborative tools - Research - Information sharing - Media monitoring - News content Friday, 27th April 2012 Altimeter Group lives for disruption. This boutique research based advisory firm located in San Mateo, California not only concentrates on disruptive trends, but also prides itself on a disruptive business model. Posted in: Information strategy - Procurement - Industry information - Social media Less than 40 days for compliant cookies Wednesday, 25th April 2012 With EU cookie compliance law due to be enforced on 26 May 2012, many organisations are simply not ready. There seems to be no consensus about the best way forward to get websites compliant, and industry suggests that compliance could harm online sales Posted in: Competitive intelligence - Information strategy - Regulatory compliance - Industry information Go Press launches as One Pass is culled Wednesday, 25th April 2012 Subscription-based news continues apace in Europe with Piano Media announcing plans for further growth. Elsewhere there are new schemes in the Benelux countries and Holland, and in Belgium an alternative initiative called Go Press. However, Google's One Pass subscription plan has now folded. Posted in: Information strategy - Information sharing - Media monitoring - Mobile - News content Spotlight on VIP 101: Further news analysis for VIP Subscribers Monday, 23rd April 2012 Get an overview of the many news analysis articles featured in the April 2012 issue of VIP Magazine - privacy, regulatory compliance, and content pricing models are among this month's topics. Posted in: Information services management - Information strategy - Procurement - Competitive intelligence - Compliance tools - Financial information Creating information packages that pay - A VIP Editorial Monday, 23rd April 2012 I can see why I was asked to offer my views in this issue’s editorial as the products reviewed – Digimind and S&P Capital IQ – are certainly pertinent to the work of the financial regulator I am currently employed by. Capital gains: Standard & Poor's Capital IQ Monday, 23rd April 2012 The April issue of VIP features a product review of Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ, a web-based research platform for global public and private capital markets. Posted in: Information services management - Information strategy - Procurement Digimind: Competitive intelligence monitoring software with a twist Monday, 23rd April 2012 My recent product review of Digimind 9 from Digimind allowed me to test drive a product with which I was not familiar, but one that those who work in marketing intelligence may well know. Posted in: Information services management - Information strategy - Procurement Social media market research - can't all have a prize Monday, 23rd April 2012 Social media from a consumer angle is the subject of a series of reports from Mintel, which promises to help clients understand more about their customers. It is not alone in offering social media metrics solutions, with Google, Tumblr and others all entering the arena, but can they all succeed? Posted in: Competitive intelligence - Procurement - Research - Competitive intelligence - Market information - People information - Social media What is an information professional? Sunday, 22nd April 2012 What is the role of the information professional? AIIM believes that certification for individuals is essential to changing the way the business world thinks about enterprise information and IT. Will this accreditation be recognised and hold value by prospective employers? It's worth looking into. Posted in: Research - Industry information - Training Friday, 20th April 2012 Although limited within the scientific community, open data in the public sector is growing with government requirements for content transparency. The concept of smart cities can also benefit from open data in areas such as policing and crime. Privacy will always remain an issue, however. Posted in: Information strategy - Government information - Information sharing Friday, 20th April 2012 Is Googling for your answers still the best option? Blekko's 3 engine monte lets you enter your search terms and provides unattributed search results from Google, Bing and Blekko. You can decide the best for yourself, and then reveal who returned the answers. Google's dominance may annoy but it does provide some impressive products. Posted in: Research - Industry information - Market information - Search Hard and tricky work: information mining Tuesday, 17th April 2012 Data and text mining techniques are used for analysing competitor behaviours and workflows as well as customer and market needs. These methods could also be used for open access, however, the full potential is not being realised as data is limited, there is no established user community and there are licensing issues. Posted in: Research - Competitive intelligence - Information sharing - Scientific, technical, medical |
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