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Wordle: the absolute best starting words

  • by Nick Andrews
  • Posted on April 5, 2022
  • Technology Topics

Plenty has been written about the joys of Wordle, including quite a few articles like this one and this one discussing the best starting words. These tend to be good but not great for a […]

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The benefits of a 4-day week

  • by Nick Andrews
  • Posted on March 15, 2022
  • Management Essentials

We are proud to say that DataSalon is now a 4-day week employer! That means all of our employees now work a 4-day week, with no loss in pay. The team have chosen different days […]

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The great WFH experiment

  • by Nick Andrews
  • Posted on April 21, 2020April 22, 2020
  • Management Essentials

The coronavirus pandemic has brought about so many huge social changes, in such a short period of time, that it’s difficult to take it all in. A month ago at time of writing, I was […]

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Why we’re joining the Global Climate Strike

  • by Nick Andrews
  • Posted on August 29, 2019
  • Uncategorized

On Friday 20th September both myself (Nick Andrews, Managing Director) and Andy Dobson (Client Services Director) will be downing tools for the day to support the Global Climate Strike. Specifically, we’ll be joining our children […]

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Retiring OrgRef

  • by Nick Andrews
  • Posted on March 27, 2018
  • Data Integration & Cleansing

If you aren’t already aware of OrgRef, it’s an open dataset providing structured information about academic and research organizations worldwide. The team here at DataSalon built and launched it back in September 2014 as a […]

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GDPR: the complications of consent

  • by Nick Andrews
  • Posted on February 23, 2018
  • Management Essentials

With the launch date for the GDPR looming ever closer (25 May), many publishers will no doubt be busy checking they have appropriate marketing consent from their customers and other contacts. That might also involve […]

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5 great features you might have missed

  • by Nick Andrews
  • Posted on September 25, 2017
  • Customer Insight

Our customer insight solution MasterVision is used by many of the world’s biggest scholarly publishers, and has been in active development for over 10 years now. As we’ve added so many great features during that […]

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Data quality for the bewildered

  • by Nick Andrews
  • Posted on October 25, 2016
  • Data Integration & Cleansing

Over the past year, we’ve been doing a lot of research & development into the challenges publishers face in relation to data quality, and working with publishers to address their real-world data issues. The word […]

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10 ways to do database marketing badly

  • by Nick Andrews
  • Posted on July 26, 2016
  • Publisher Marketing

This article was first published as a guest post on the ALPSP blog. We’ve learnt a lot over the years about the wonderful world of database marketing, and how things can sometimes go a little […]

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This article will change your life…

  • by Nick Andrews
  • Posted on June 27, 2016
  • Management Essentials

…if you want it to. Call them productivity tips, call it stress reduction, call it what you like, there’s no shortage of advice out there for making our working lives fitter/happier/more productive. So here’s another take […]

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