Subscription Update - What's New and What's Coming
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By Catherine Dhanjal

Abstract

Find out what's new and upcoming in FreePint's Content, Community, and Consulting - including reviews and articles on sources and their best application, webinars on subjects such as convincing the C-suite, teleconferences on current awareness and news, and an update on FreePint's Community of Practice and consulting services.

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Content (Articles, Reports and Webinars)

A big component of the value you bring to your organisations is your ability to stay informed about all the different sources and their best application. Much of the recent FreePint content directly supports that expertise. Recent articles and reports provide insight on:

• LexisNexis' acquisition of Moreover
• Latest additions and drops of content in Factiva, Nexis and Eureka.cc/Europresse
• The pros and cons of crowdsourced content to support research
• A case study on comparing free sources to a premium provider for current awareness
• Criteria for understanding which provider(s) of company information suit your organisation's needs
• Analysis of the value of current awareness, plus a reflection on what we mean by the term
• In-depth review of NewsEdge.com.

These are all insights that information professionals are uniquely equipped to understand, share and apply to drive information strategy.

We aim to support your position as your organisation's internal consultant on information strategy. Build your expertise with our resources, then make the case to your leaders: Register for the 24th November FreePint Webinar: Convincing the C-Suite.... And Getting Their Attention in the First Place.

Community

FreePint recently completed a busy few weeks of in-person Communities of Practice (CoP) sessions in Chicago, London, Amsterdam and New York. The next in-person sessions will take place in 2015.

In the meantime, you can participate via teleconference in these upcoming sessions, both part of the FreePint Topic Series: News and Beyond:

• Current Awareness Options and Value Proposition (2nd or 4th December)
• In-Depth Research Options and Value Proposition (16th or 18th December).

A recent CoP participant had this to say:

"My experience with the FreePint Communities of Practice session has gotten me to think in ways I've never thought before. It was a nice way to get out of my work rut of putting out fires and be reminded of the bigger picture of my purpose."

Consulting

A Consulting-level FreePint Subscription includes a credit for six hours of consulting time. Based on our experience with various types of customers and their needs, we are assembling a menu of high-value projects that can be completed within that amount of time, such as:

• Engaging leadership around an information strategy
• Evaluating user needs for news content
• Creating a stakeholder engagement plan to drive budget discussions.

Because we can leverage existing Content and CoP sessions, consulting projects can make the most of one-on-one time in a cost-effective way.

If you'd like to discuss a consulting project, please contact our director of research, Robin Neidorf, at robin.neidorf@freepint.com.

Editor's Note

Find out more about a FreePint Subscription, which at the Content level gives access to all FreePint articles, reports and webinars, at the Community level gives access to all FreePint Communities of Practice (as well as all FreePint Content), and at the Consulting level adds a credit for up to six hours of annual consulting time. Find out more.

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