How to Identify what Intranet Users Want
10th April 2013

James Mullan considers how intranet managers can really understand what intranet users want. He explores a variety of tools and research techniques such as card sorting and focus groups, to help draw information from intranet users. Intranet managers can then truly put themselves into their users' shoes to allow them to develop and refine the intranet to better meet user needs.

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FreePint Report: Product Review of ReportLinker
9th April 2013

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Product Review of ReportLinker: Help, Pricing, Contact & Conclusion
9th April 2013

The final part of Aileen Marshall's review of ReportLinker describes the help options available from phone to email or FAQ as well as the variety of purchase options available from Pay As You Go to subscription.

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Product Review of ReportLinker: Interface, Search, Outputs & Access
8th April 2013

The ReportLinker search engine allows users to search public and private sources to find official statistics. Aileen Marshall's review continues with a tour of the search, outputs and alerts available within the database. She also highlights the free data available such as industry news articles and profiles.

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Alternatives to Google Alerts - Is it Next for the Cut?
8th April 2013

Google is the topic of conversation for the wrong reasons at the moment, from its copyright battles to disgruntlement over the recent cull of Google Reader. Now it seems free web monitoring service Google Alerts is providing poor results, leading to speculation about its closure. Penny Crossland looks at some alternative free alerting services and puts them to the test.

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Why We Need to Reward Employee Contributions
5th April 2013

New research has shown that organisations that say "thank you" to their employees consistently outperform those that don't. The question is, how should rewards and contributions be managed internally? James Mullan discusses some possible techniques including gamification.

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Product Review of ReportLinker: Sources, Content & Coverage
5th April 2013

Continuing her review of ReportLinker, Aileen Marshall examines the sources within this comprehensive resource.  Users gain unlimited access to 200,000 public source documents through a subscription service, while premium reports from around 450 private publishers are available for individual purchase.

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Product Review of ReportLinker: Introduction and FreePint's View
4th April 2013

In her review of ReportLinker, Aileen Marshall explores the myriad of industry, company and country reports available for around 200 countries and 350 industries. Researchers can interrogate information from around 200,000 information sources on public and private companies using semantic search technology - and reports date back as far as 1994, presenting a comprehensive resource from UBIQUICK, a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA company.

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Replacing your Intranet with Yammer
4th April 2013

Intranets have come a long way since the early days of static text-heavy internal websites for collaboration and communication. Now they offer unique functionality that often eclipses what is available on the website of the same company. Whilst social intranets are becoming the norm, we're yet to see an enterprise social network such as Yammer become an intranet... until now.

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Source Update April 2013: What's Happening with EBSCO?
4th April 2013

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

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