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Linex Systems: Outputs and Reports
30th October 2012

Alerts are at the heart of the value of Linex Systems. Users and administrators can set up different types of alerts using different sources, time frames, and alerting mechanism. Reviewer Jan Knight also comments on the products reporting functions, which are designed to help administrators understand what alerts are most useful to users and gauge the value of the product overall.

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Linex Systems: Sources, Content and Coverage
30th October 2012

Linex Systems is designed to pull content from a wide range of premium, web-based and even email sources to enable users to gain a comprehensive view of a topic on an ongoing basis. Users can add their own sources, including subscription-based sources, to the 7,800 sites and RSS feeds provided. The product's primary purpose is not in searching, but a useful search function is available. Reviewer Jan Knight provides the results of her testing.

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Linex Systems: Introduction and FreePint's View
30th October 2012

Linex Systems offers three products to support information monitoring and discovery. The Smart Alerts product is a fully customisable Software as a Service offering that enables customers to automatically monitor diverse information streams including premium databases, web searches and internal information to maintain awareness about projects. The product was originally developed for law firms and professional services firms. It can take some attention to get it set up to maximise the power of the tools -- a challenge for getting started but also a strength of a fully-flexible tool. Reviewer Jan Knight offers her introductory comments on a full review.

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From Gatekeeper to Story Teller?
29th October 2012

We are facing threats to professional journalism from the growth of information sharing, the hazardous lure of free news from myriad sources and the possible fragmentation of peer-reviewed research publication. Where might all this leave the information manager or researcher tasked with sourcing, selecting and – critically – presenting the intelligence they provide?

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Web 2.0 and Its Impact on the Information Industry
29th October 2012

The digital revolution has radically changed how we access information, interact with each other and create content. We are all now capable of adding to the collective knowledge, changing the role of the traditional gatekeepers of information – librarians and other information professionals. Web 2.0 has also spurred the technology industry into producing devices that enable us to access information wherever we are. These are themes which are addressed by Martin de Saulles in his book 'Information 2.0: New models of information production, distribution and consumption. This article attempts to delve into some of the issues raised in the book, with the help of FreePint and other information industry observers.

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Source Update October 2012: What's Happening with Nexis?
25th October 2012

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

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Source Update October 2012: What's Happening with Factiva?
25th October 2012

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

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Getting Over the Barriers to Adoption
24th October 2012

If you're involved in the implementation of any social tool within an organisation, one of the biggest challenges you're likely to face is around adoption of the tool. James Mullen discusses a blog post that looks at some of the issues around the adoption of wikis. He examines two major barriers to the adoption of social media tools - cultural and technical. The question is, what can information managers do to overcome these and other barriers to adoption?

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Hootsuite Launches a New Type of Conversation
24th October 2012

If you're a regular user of Twitter, you might use tools like Tweetdeck, Seesmic or Hootsuite to manage the content generated by Twitter. However only two of these tools, Tweetdeck and Hootsuite, allow you to manage multiple social media accounts. Whilst Hootsuite isn't the most well known, it's growing in popularity and has recently rolled out Hootsuite Conversations. Whilst Hootsuite Conversations have only been available for a short time, it looks like they could have the potential to significantly alter the way teams within organisations manage Twitter and other social media content.

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Product Review of BvD Mint: Executive Summary
23rd October 2012

Mint from Bureau van Dijk (BvD) is a powerful and flexible database of company information. Business intelligence profiles can quickly and easily be put together by combining company financials, directorships, news articles and industry research profiles. Marketing and prospecting lists can be created and due diligence performed. The product can be integrated into line of business applications, such as Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics, for data cleansing and data merging. This all comes in an easy to use format with user customisation and flexible download and output options.

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