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Finding competitive business information in six steps
31st March 2009

While every quest for competitive information results in a different end point, the strategic researcher knows that the process for finding information follows the same key principles. Heather Carine shares her six basic steps for performing corporate competitive research, along with tips for getting started.

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EBooks and Traditional Texts: Complementary or Mutually Exclusive?
31st March 2009

The eBooks market seems to have been poised for success for years, but widespread adoption has been more promise than substance. Kate Worlock looks at comparative adoption rates for different types of content and academic environments and explains why new devices may help eBooks achieve their promise - or not.

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Folksonomies: Business Use
31st March 2009

Folksonomies are gaining favour as a free content organisational system on sites like Flickr and del.icio.us, but that doesn't make them ready for business prime time. Fran Alexander explores the pros and cons of folksonomies in the workplace and provides some insight into balancing the costs and benefits of crowd-sourced tagging.

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Find and Share information on the Internet : Part 1
31st March 2009

With the number of websites in a state of continual expansion, tools for locating relevant online information become increasingly important. In Part One of this two-part story, Malcolm Coles examines the rise of search engines and social media and their impact on finding online information in context.

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Filling in the Gaps: Company Intelligence Beyond the Corporate Website
1st March 2009

Somewhere between paid databases and Google, there's a wealth of company information available to researchers who ask the right questions and poke into the odd corners. Sarah Hinton provides an overview of her normal research process for corporate information, which uses the corporate web site as a springboard into competitive, patent, market, industry and insider information.

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Information Architecture: Why SharePoint 2007 Needs It
1st March 2009

Microsoft's Sharepoint is here to stay in the enterprise information environment, but its ubiquity does not imply perfection. Marc Stephenson points out that the very usability of Sharepoint on the user level can prevent it from being deployed in a way to ensure technical longevity, and that a clear information architecture is critical to getting Sharepoint implementations right.

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Knowledge for Survival
1st March 2009

The charity Practical Action, writes Jane Eason, offers a Practical Answers service which is helping hundreds of people around the world overcome their own poverty, through the provision of knowledge and information. Through sharing and disseminating information, this practical support has had major impacts on the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of poor men and women throughout the world.

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Data Visualisation: Tools and Examples
9th February 2009

With the volume of information piling up inside organizations, information professionals are turning to information discovery tools to help them find information that might otherwise get buried. Visualisation tools are one such approach and, as Matthew Solle writes, the tools in this space are becoming increasingly innovative.

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Internet Librarian International 2008
2nd February 2009

The Internet Librarian International conference took place in London on 16-17 October 2008. Jill Fenton reviews it for FUMSI and outlines some of the discussions and ideas around what the library and librarian of the future should be.

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Research: A Strategy for Raising $1 Million
2nd February 2009

Research, fundraiser, strategist? In her role as a specialist in fundraising support, Marge King does all three. She illustrates the multifaceted nature of her work, and the skill set crucial to success, with this case study of her efforts to leverage primary and secondary research sources to help a client navigate the fundraising process.

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