Content and Community picks for February
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By Catherine Dhanjal

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Jinfo's head of content and community, Catherine Dhanjal, highlights a must-read article, report, webinar and Community session from February.

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One of the most enjoyable parts of my role as head of content and community at Jinfo is looking back over the month and getting a new wave of excitement about what we've made available through Jinfo Subscriptions. This blog post gives me an opportunity to share that excitement, as well as to pick out some items you may have missed. The resources below support those aims.

Our Content and Community are driven by our research, customer comments and queries, as well as insights from attendance at conferences and events.

• Article: In "How to hone your research strategy", Anja Thygesen and Irene Koren lay out some practical steps which will help ensure research projects are successful, which internal and external factors could derail you and how to manage them. Other joint articles from experienced business researchers Irene and Anja include "What savings can you make by engaging information professionals?"

• Report: At least every quarter Jinfo carries out original research and our recent publication, "Jinfo benchmarking report - finance and insurance", analyses specific data relating to financial services and insurance companies and compares the results to the full dataset, looking at areas such as services provided, reporting lines, measuring success and budget levels.

• Webinar: Our regular programme of webinars offers superb at-your-desk, at-your-convenience learning and an alternative way to absorb information or get up to speed on an issue. These 60-minute sessions are available live or to view post-session at your leisure.
  
  The February session "The trouble with datasets - industry trends on licensing data for analytics projects" tackled the thorny topic of licensing of third-party data, with vendors and purchasers currently having very different ideas about the pricing and what should be within scope. The companion article "The challenges of data licensing and the information professional's role" captures some of the challenges and key learning points.
  
  
• Community session: Our live, confidential, facilitated Community sessions tackle topics from strategic planning to enhancing departmental skills. See our upcoming sessions here.
  
  In February one of the sessions focused on "Been there, done that - creating your own analytics success stories", where we discussed how to introduce strategy and management to complex analytics projects.
  
  If you're not yet a Community subscriber and would like the opportunity to attend, do contact me for a taster invitation.

Next steps:

• Keep an eye on our "What's new" section to see the most recent articles, reports and blogs in one dashboard, together with upcoming webinar and Community session listings

• Get a sense of what other readers find of interest by checking out the trending articles and blog items

• Share what's upcoming with our monthly "Forthcoming in Jinfo" PDF - great for physical noticeboards or adding to your intranet

• Find out more about what a Subscription offers you.

If you have a suggestion, do contact me, your thoughts are always welcome.

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