We hope you have had a great start to the year. We've spent time adding some great developments in illumin8 that we hope will make your 2010 even more productive. The new illumin8 project feature enables you to save, annotate and share your search results in a new and powerful way using illumin8 Projects. You can see a video demo on the Project feature here.

In this edition of the newsletter, we'll take a look at the activities that represent some of the best practices for using illumin8. We've seen where illumin8 can fit into a new product development process, ideation and scoping in particular, and how it can help with tasks from identifying everything from applications for technology to sourcing technology to solve a problem to understanding and responding to trends.

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