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Co-Authoring in SharePoint 2013
6th December 2013

Sarah Dillingham outlines how co-authoring works in SharePoint 2013 and the benefits it offers. The organisational intranet software now offers real-time collaboration on the same Word, Excel or PowerPoint document; the authors can see one another’s work and everyone knows who is working on the document. She provides tips to help users make the most of co-authoring and to work more productively with one another.

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Supplier Selection Process: News Aggregation
6th December 2013

Andrew Grave outlines a framework for selecting your news supplier. He details the essential steps to take from planning the process to understanding the news aggregation process, users' needs and stakeholders' views on news aggregation. The article also demonstrates how Robin Neidorf’s Art of Persuasion model can be applied to successfully engage stakeholders in your news aggregation project.

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Q&A with Attensa: Enabling Awareness & Knowledge Sharing
6th December 2013

In her interview with Charlie Davidson, CEO of Attensa, Sophie Alexander finds out about the company's enterprise information and knowledge management tools including StreamServer, due to be reviewed again in 2014. He explains why Attensa is developing tools that can help better allocate attention through highly relevant personalised news and content streams, improve predictive delivery of high value information and help organisations to identify and access knowledge that exists within them to solve problems or innovate faster.

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Product Review of InfoNgen: Introduction, Value and FreePint's View
5th December 2013

Yulia Aspinall reviews InfoNgen, a "discovery engine" which combines the ability to do metasearches of all or selected internal and external sources of information with flexible tagging and customer specific needs. The foundation of InfoNgen is an automated classification system that analyses unstructured content and organises it into a variety of taxonomies, making it easier to manage. The first part of her review introduces the product and offers feedback on the value and return on investment it offers.

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Source Update December 2013: What's Happening with ProQuest?
5th December 2013

This month's additions and takedowns in ProQuest, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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Mini Review: Silobreaker Premium
4th December 2013

Silobreaker Premium is much more than a content aggregator, finds Penny Crossland in her mini review of the online intelligence product. She concludes that its ability to store both external and internal content and to allow shared access and editing also makes this a knowledge management tool, which will appeal to information professionals working in a range of industry sectors. This Software as a Service (SaaS) tool has moved a long way beyond content aggregation for news, reports, blogs, audio, video and more - into the fields of competitive intelligence and risk analysis.

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FreePint News Survey 2013: Focus on the Future
3rd December 2013

Robin Neidorf considers the data from FreePint's Sixth Annual News Needs & Preferences Survey to better understand the future of news awareness and news aggregation. How will activities such as DIY news aggregation feature and what are the pitfalls and challenges associated with this, such as legal rights and policy? We also looked at how news is being integrated into intranets and which resources currently feature within intranets.

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What on Earth is the Digital Workplace?
3rd December 2013

The digital workplace is a term you might have come across once or twice in recent years and you might well be thinking, what on earth is it? Whilst the term has been around for a number of years, there still seems to be a lot of misunderstanding around what a digital workplace is. Encompassing much more than just an intranet, James Mullan looks at how far digital workplaces and work practices have developed in the last few years.

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Realising the Value of Knowledge on Major Projects
3rd December 2013

Analysis by knowledge management consultancy Knoco shows that the majority of projects under-resource KM compared to the value it delivers. Sarah Dillingham examines how knowledge managers could use such analysis to better allocate staff hours, how they can ensure that projects realise their full knowledge potential, and why the number of man hours applied doesn't necessarily correlate to value realised.

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Product Review of Northern Light SinglePoint: Executive Summary
2nd December 2013

If you're looking to significantly speed up and enhance the process of analysing markets, tracking competitors, forecasting technologies or developing new products, then a Northern Light SinglePoint strategic research portal may be just what your company needs. Aggregating all of a company's internal and external market research via a single point of access, the portals are fully customisable. Using powerful text analytics to filter search results according to industry, they are also able to deliver more focused search results. Sophie Alexander's executive summary of SinglePoint highlights some of the product's best features and identifies how it offers a high return on investment.

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