Mini Review: Web Preserver
18th February 2013

Barbara Fullerton reviews Web Preserver, a sophisticated yet easy-to-use product which not only allows you to preserve webpages in their native technology format but also to archive and tag them, and to monitor and compare website changes.

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To SharePoint or Not to SharePoint?
18th February 2013

At the end of 2012 SharePoint announced that it was releasing SharePoint 2013. SharePoint 2013 promises much both in terms of content authoring and the social experience, but whether organisations choose to upgrade to the latest version of the application will depend on many factors.

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FreePint Report: Content and Compliance
18th February 2013

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Why You Should Take Time Out from Technology
14th February 2013

James Mullan has written two posts recently which looked at some of the issues caused by our lives being dominated by digital activities. Now he's stumbled across a new, yet related, term called "technostress". The question is, are you suffering from technostress and, if so, what can you do about it?

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Sorry Bosses - You Can't Shut Down Twitter
12th February 2013

Management's ill-considered reaction to rogue tweets by staff at HMV indicates how far many bosses still have to go in understanding social media. Twitter's acquisition of Bluefin Labs, alongside its acknowledgement of recent security breaches, show how high the stakes can be, yet Gartner suggests that management still needs to learn how to deal with issues such as exploiting internal networks or getting to grips with social media-based identity and access management. Nevertheless, a recent report from Weber Shandwick suggests that chief executives are becoming more social, and it offers some tips from which information professionals could profit.

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FreePint Report: CODiE Finalists - Best Science & Technology Information Solution
12th February 2013

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Product Review of Key Note: Executive Summary
11th February 2013

Key Note has a single web platform through which it delivers its services. Until recently, these were just its well-known Market Reports. In the last three years, it has added Business Ratio Reports, credit reports, Companies House filings, a list generator tool and, this January, a company benchmarking tool. In this executive summary, Andrew Grave outlines the highlights of FreePint’s first review of the product.

Update: A new review of this product is available here »

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Key Note: Customer Support, Pricing, Conclusion & Contact Details
11th February 2013

The final section of Andrew Graves review of Key Note looks at customer support and pricing, along with his conclusion of the product.

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Key Note: Report Contents
11th February 2013

Reports within Key Note provide researchers with in-depth information on organisations and Andrew Grave continues his review of Key Note by investigating exactly what the information professional can expect from tools such as the report, benchmarking and list functions.

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Key Note: Interface, Search and Tools
11th February 2013

This section of Andrew Grave's review of Key Note looks into the options for searching the market research reports and subsequently refining the initial results.

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