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By Catherine Dhanjal

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Read articles from our recently-concluded "News, and Other Commodities" series on subjects including online video, financial, and people information, plus analysis of FreePint's 8th Annual Survey on News Needs and Preferences. Find out about our new Research Focus, "Strategic Alignment of IS and IT".

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Content (Articles, Reports, Webinars)

As the Topic Series, "News, and Other Commodities", drew to a close in December, we published:

• "Increasing Relevance of Online Video for Research", highlighting how video can add an extra dimension to your research and identifying specialist sources

• Market landscapes where we identify key vendors and product benefits for people information, and for financial information

• Valuable knowledge of emerging markets in "Insider Knowledge – Researching West Africa"

• Comprehensive analysis of the results from FreePint's 8th Annual Survey on News Needs and Preferences. 

We've also launched the Research Focus, "Strategic Alignment of Information Services and IT" which runs from January to March and looks at how content and technology experts can better understand, work together and achieve mutual goals around the value of information in their businesses.

FreePint Webinars scheduled for the early part of this year include:

• IS and IT Make Sense of the "Digital Workplace", 12th January 
• Successful Relationships Between IS and IT: Tips from the Pros, 9th February 
• Shifting the Worldview around IS/IT Relationships: A First Step to Alignment, 8th March 

Other articles and Q&As recently published include:

• DIY Content Aggregation - Emerging Alternatives to Traditional Databases
• Key Learning Points "What We Learned about Usage"
• Evaluating Factiva and Nexis
• A Framework for Evaluating Sources

Community

There will be an in-person Communities of Practice (CoP) session in London on 28th January "Step One to Alignment Between IS and IT" which will demystify IT and provide you with tools to document what you learn about your colleagues on the "other side" of information practice.  This is also available as an online teleconference on a choice of two dates in February: 2nd or 4th.

Seats are limited, so register now. 

Consulting

Peer review and feedback has been a popular use of consulting credit recently. Many information managers are completing their strategic statements, development plans and department goals for 2016, and we've been pleased to have the opportunity to review and offer confidential comments on these materials.

Among the most common advice we've given in these peer review opportunities:

• Consider your audience: Is the main idea expressed clearly, near the top of the document, in terms that make sense to your intended reader? This is particularly important if the intended reader does not have information expertise.
  
  
• Is it practical? We're all for bold strategic statements, but the best ones are grounded in practical actions and measurable results. If you achieve your departmental goals, how will you know you've got there? What practical difference will this achievement make to the business?
  
  
• Is it challenging enough? We also urge and coach information managers to challenge (appropriately) the status quo, biases and assumptions about information in their organisations. 

Our work with a wide range of organisations with varied objectives enables us to bring a practiced eye to peer review and commentary. If you'd like help with a strategic plan, budget or department goal-setting project, please get in touch with our director of research, Robin Neidorf (robin.neidorf@freepint.com).

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