The great WFH experiment
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 […]
Author: Nick Andrews
Why we’re joining the Global Climate Strike
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 […]
Retiring OrgRef
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 […]
GDPR: the complications of consent
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 […]
5 great features you might have missed
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 […]
Data quality for the bewildered
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 […]
10 ways to do database marketing badly
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 […]
This article will change your life…
…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 […]
The beliefs behind our business
With DataSalon’s 10th birthday fast approaching this summer, it seems like a good time to reflect on what makes us different, and why so many publishers have chosen to work with us over the years. […]
Master data: easier said than done
The challenge of ‘mastering’ customer data has been troubling publishers for many years now. It comes in various different guises (‘CRM’, ‘single customer view’, ‘master data management’) but the essential aim is the same: to […]
