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Edward Ptolomey Using the golden information thread: Some lessons from the Utilities sector for managing risk, making decisions and providing governance.
1st July 2011

Projects often involve third parties which inevitably makes information management more complicated, particularly when it comes to ensuring there is only “one version of the truth”. Edward Ptolomey shows how a partnership approach in the utilities sector reduced duplication of information and helped risk management.

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Robin Neidorf China Rising: New research project to investigate China-related information needs
8th June 2011

There’s no mistaking the excitement surrounding the economic opportunity China represents. Companies want to sell goods and services in China, manufacture in China, partner with Chinese firms, bring Chinese data to other markets ... with over 1.3 billion people (and an online population of 477 million), the upside potential of China-related initiatives is hard to resist.

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Perrin Kerravala Product Review of China Connect
8th June 2011

China Connect is a partnership between BvD and BCMS International, an M&A advisory firm.
The content is made available via BvD's Zephyr platform, which provides sophisticated search and reporting tools specifically for M&A data. One hundred percent of the content is provided by BCMS, who have offices on four continents, including one in Beijing.

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Product Review of ISI's CEIC China Premium Database and EMIS China
8th June 2011

The following reviews are of two ISI Emerging Markets Chinese services. The first one, CEIC China Premium Database, provides comprehensive macroeconomic and industry time series for every dataset released by the Chinese Government. Data is presented in granular format, with statistics available down to city level.

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Abigail Sawyer BBC World Service and Twitter
1st June 2011

Social media have changed news gathering not only for individuals but for venerable institutions like BBC World Service. Programmes and presenters can now interact with their audiences in a more immediate way and, via Twitter, audiences can be involved in history as it unfolds through tweets from reporters on the spot. Abigail Sawyer describes the impact of Twitter on BBC World Service.

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Jennifer Smith Designing the Samurai sword: using facets to support agile, highly-effective information management
1st June 2011

How can info pros help users to find information when both organisations and information are evolving and becoming more complex? Jennifer Smith is convinced that adopting a faceted system, which assigns types and attributes to information, is the key and describes the ONEIS system which a number of information-rich organisations have successfully implemented.

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Jennifer Jones Archiving social media content/context - more questions than answers?
1st June 2011

As Twitter does not provide a long term storage solution for tweets this leaves researchers with a dilemma. How should tweets be stored so that both the content and the context are retained, and the resource is searchable? Jennifer Jones looks at the possibilities but concludes that there are still more questions than answers.

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