UK Legal Purchasing Trends and Needs (Ended. Recording available.)
Spend your lunch hour learning about the latest results from FreePint's multi-year original research on purchasing trends and needs in UK law firms. We'll review survey data, interview inputs and...
View ArticleSource Expertise and Your Value to Your Business (Ended. Recording available.)
A critical difference between information professionals and knowledge workers is the source expertise of information professionals: You know which sources are valuable, how to use them efficiently,...
View ArticleCan You Outsource KYC? (28th or 30th October 2014)
"Know Your Customer" is a difficult area for businesses to outsource. Whilst you can outsource the steps, tasks and management of due diligence to a third party, you can't outsource the legal and...
View ArticleTechnology to Support Business Strategy (4th or 6th November 2014)
Your clients and users constantly change their expectations around technology and information delivery. You need a plan for staying two steps ahead of them on everything from collaborative tools, to...
View ArticleIs Our Need for News What It Used to Be? (11th or 12th November 2014)
At one time, the "holy grail" was a single database that could serve all the news-related needs for an enterprise - everything from in-depth, multilingual research to current awareness for disparate...
View ArticleConvincing the C-Suite... and Getting Their Attention in the First Place...
Business leaders intuitively know that without the right information, their businesses will die. So why is it so difficult to capture their attention and gain their support for information strategy,...
View ArticleRight Suppliers, Right Needs: A Competitive Analysis of Suppliers (9th or...
Part of the FreePint Topic Series: News, and Beyond , and picking up research and inputs from customers over the past 18 months, this session examines the choices information managers are making...
View ArticleUser Behaviour and Visibility (Ended.)
FreePint's research on the "visibility" of information to end users suggests that three components are essential: the right technology, the right content and the right user behaviour. Information...
View ArticleCase Studies - Applying Technology to Visibility (Ended.)
Many vendors offer technology solutions to support end users' ability to discover and use the right information at the time of need. Many information managers are considering the likes of EBSCO...
View ArticleWhat We Learned About "News, and Beyond" (Ended.)
What used to be a single category of content - "news" - has morphed into at least two areas of concern: Current awareness In-depth research. These areas sometimes overlap but often have very different...
View ArticleBeautiful Information is Visible Information (18th March 2015)
"Data visualisation" is a term much in vogue, and it has enormous promise to help users and decision-makers understand complex datasets much more quickly. Information professionals are uniquely...
View ArticleNews Strategy in Law Firms - A Perfect Storm of Sources, Technology and Value...
How are law librarians addressing the insatiable appetite of their users for news content... while managing budget, risk, resources and stakeholder opinions? This FreePint Webinar draws together...
View ArticleImproving Your Connection, Communication and Collaboration with IT (21st May...
Information professionals often need to work with their counterparts in IT departments, both for for basic troubleshooting or long-term collaborative projects. Despite some of the common ground in our...
View ArticleThe Ins and Outs of Content Licensing (3rd April 2014)
Why do titles get added to platforms like Nexis, EBSCO & Factiva? Or more to the point, why do they get removed? There's a whole economy of content licensing that has a critical impact on the...
View ArticleStrategic View on Value and Collection Management (18th June 2014)
One-hour session covering the principles of discussing, measuring and delivering value through content portfolios and information services. Presented by FreePint's Director of Research, Robin Neidorf...
View ArticleInformation Visibility, Study by Sector (18th July 2014)
Webinar covering research on variables regarding how organizations make information more visible to their users. Presented by FreePint's Director of Research, Robin Neidorf . Restricted to FreePint...
View ArticleWhat We Learned about "Making Information Visible" (Multiple, starting 4th...
From January through March 2015, FreePint ran the Topic Series, "Making Information Visible" . This series focused on the central questions: How do knowledge workers access the most valuable...
View ArticleDo You Know Your Skills Objectives? (28th May 2015)
We all want better information skills at every level of the organisation. But how many of us have a clear set of objectives for improvement? Early results in the current FreePint Survey: Information...
View ArticleGetting Started with Effective Distance Learning (4th June 2015)
For many organisations, distance learning promises to solve all training challenges. Remote researchers? No space for workshops? Instructors only available at odd hours? No problem. But if you've made...
View ArticleCorporate Market for Ebooks: A Look at the Research (30th July 2015)
Early in 2015, FreePint completed research on the corporate market for ebooks -- one of the first studies to look beyond the public and academic library markets. We discovered that the pace of...
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