FreePint's Perspectives on Big Ideas
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By Robin Neidorf

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The fast-moving pace of development in the regulations and technology arena creates new opportunities for information professionals in many fields, from compliance and "big data", to research and social media. FreePint's Content and Compliance report explores some of the regulations faced and tools to tackle these. And we announce our upcoming webinar on big data and welcome your input for topics and speakers.

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Two recent FreePint feature articles focus on topics heard around many a conference table: my "Big Data, FreePint Style" announces a publication series we'll be producing in April and May, exploring real-world applications of this somewhat fuzzy concept of "big data". I'm excited about the articles, reports and webinar we have planned, and I invite your suggestions for case studies, topics and speakers.

Tim Buckley Owen reflects on much of the writing he's done on the topic of compliance, with "Content and Compliance Challenges Deliver Opportunities for Info Pros". At its heart, compliance is very much about information management. Tim's article, which is the opening editorial for the FreePint Report: Content and Compliance (Subscribers, login to download and read), names only a handful of the alphabet soup of regulations today's organisations face, which information professionals and information tools can support.

There's no regulation to manage tweets gone wild, though. Tim's usual wry commentary, in "Sorry Bosses - You Can't Shut Down Twitter" (Subscriber) made me laugh and cringe simultaneously.

Someone is always looking for company information. Those searchers should take note of Key Note, reviewed by Andrew Grave. And for researchers for whom the "why" is as important as the "what", Jan Knight's editorial on "Context is King in the Research Sphere" offers a jumping-off point for discovering some of the articles, product reviews and reports FreePint offers which value context as much as content.

Our commissioning editors, Jan, Andrew, and Iain Simpson have recently commissioned a series of articles on research, competitive intelligence and internal communications, respectively. If there is an article you are longing to read - or one you are itching to write - find them on the FreePint People page and get in touch.

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