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• Treasuring Twitter: The Why and How of Preserving Tweets
  September 2010
  When talking about how they came up with the name for Twitter [1] Jack Dorsey is quoted as saying: 'The definition was 'a short burst...
  
  
• iPhone Apps for Researchers
  August 2010
  When I last looked (right before finishing this article), over 244,000 applications have been created for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch....
  
  
• SharePoint 2010: Changing the Paradigm with a Business-Oriented Approach to Records Management
  July 2010
  The electronic business environment today has experienced an evolution. The concept of a record has dramatically shifted from ‘paper' to information...
  
  
• From Sumo to Samurai: getting your taxonomies fighting fit: Part 1
  June 2010
  I've been hanging out at the FUMSI Forum recently and I noticed an entry: 'Top Shared and Read Articles in Manage'. It seems James Kelway's...
  
  
• An InfoRant on the State of Information Management Today
  May 2010
  This highly prejudiced and personal article was prompted by my need to check my understanding or compare notes on the current state of information...
  
  
• The Importance of Being Earnest: About Requirements and Purpose
  April 2010
  From time to time in the course of a project I encounter employees who say, about a tool used for keeping track of documentation, that 'it is not...
  
  
• Knowledge in the Round: Information Management in a 3-D World
  March 2010
  "Every term is sacred,  Every term unique.  So we give them facets  To find them when we seek." A flight engineer...
  
  
• Knowledge Architecture: A Vision for the 21st Century
  February 2010
  Carpe diem! Organisations of all types are in dire need of the skills of information professionals. With information production growing exponentially, who...
  
  
• Leveraging and Repurposing RSS
  January 2010
  While many of us have enjoyed the prospects that RSS promised, it generally remains an unused tool among those we support in our organisations. Perhaps...
  
  
• Conference Information: Managing Before, During and After
  December 2009
  Attending a conference or event today can result in a whirlwind of information and contacts. People attend these events with different...
  
  
• Information Architecture Principles: Use in a Library Setting
  November 2009
  As part of a recent role, I was involved in a major project that took me beyond my usual skill set as a librarian. I was not only helping...
  
  
• Becoming a Taxonomist: Real Life Stories
  October 2009
  'Taxonomist' is one of the more specialist information management careers. How do you get started in this profession? We asked four taxonomists...
  
  
• Image Findability: Improving through Tags
  September 2009
  Let's face it right at the start, no ducking the issue, image tagging for business findability is hard - though the light at the end of the tunnel...
  
  
• Information Risk Management: The Benefits
  August 2009
  It is not an exaggeration to say that the lifeblood of today's organisation, whether it be in the private or public sector, is information....
  
  
• The Lean Intranet: from Intranet Zero to Intranet 2.0 and beyond. (Part Three: Intranet 2.0 and Intranet 3.0)
  July 2009
  In Part 1 of this three-part series I talked about Intranet Zero and in Part 2 discussed a model for a robust intranet 1.0 - the ‘Lean Intranet'. In this...
  
  
• Information in the Cloud:10-Point Check List for Choosing a Hosted Provider
  June 2009
  No hardware, no software, no hassle! Send your information into the cloud for an easier working life! Perhaps, but as responsible Information Managers,...
  
  
• The Lean Intranet: from Intranet Zero to Intranet 2.0 and beyond. (Part Two: Intranet 1.0)
  May 2009
  In the first of this series of three articles I talked about intranet zero; so called as it offers virtually zero benefit to users and their organizations....
  
  
• Folksonomies: Business Use
  April 2009
  Folksonomies: Business Use Written by Fran Alexander. Folksonomies have become very popular on content-sharing websites such as Flickr...
  
  
• Information Architecture: Why SharePoint 2007 Needs It
  March 2009
  SharePoint, SharePoint, SharePoint - as an information management professional, I can't currently move for SharePoint engagements and, considering the...
  
  
• The Lean Intranet: from Intranet Zero to Intranet 2.0 and beyond (Part One: Intranet Zero)
  February 2009
  There is an elephant in the intranet living room. In all that has been written about intranets, very few commentators ever mention the fact that intranets...
  
  
• Automatic Classification: A Panel Discussion
  January 2009
  Following their recent ISKO UK presentation, Karen Loasby discusses automatic classification with freelance information architect Helen Lippell and BBC...
  
  
• Web Analytics and Information Architecture
  December 2008
  Information Architects always want to know how easy our site is to use and how often it is used by the audiences we target. For the most part, few people...
  
  
• Enterprise Information Architecture: A View From The Legal World
  November 2008
  Like many organisations, law firms have an odd relationship with information. They know information is really important, especially the really valuable...
  
  
• How the Semantic Web Will Change Information Management: Three Predictions
  October 2008
  A lot has been written about what the Semantic Web is, but little has been said about the impact it will have. After a brief recap on what the Semantic...
  
  
• Creating User-Centred Taxonomies: Part Two
  September 2008
  This two-part article is a step-by-step guide for those wishing to create new taxonomies for their business unit or client. It will outline the many...
  
  
• Creating User Centred Taxonomies: Part One
  August 2008
  This two-part article is a step-by-step guide for those wishing to create new taxonomies for their business unit, or client. It will outline the many...
  
  
• Experiencing Information: A Personal View of the 2008 Information Architecture Summit
  July 2008
  Miami is a young, optimistic and fast-expanding city. The Downtown area is full of cranes, building sites and condominium blocks rising up to the Florida...
  
  
• ISO Management Standards, Intranets and Information Architecture
  June 2008
  Today, nearly a million organisations worldwide are accredited to an ISO management system standard. The exponential growth in the number of accreditations...
  
  
• Knowledge Management: Getting Started
  May 2008
  Knowledge is a blend of experience, values, information in context, and insight that forms a basis on which to build new experiences and information. It is...
  
  
• What's On An Info-Entrepreneur's Book Shelf?
  April 2008
  One of the reasons I was able to quit my job and launch my research business back in 1991 was my background as a specialised librarian. While I did not...
  
  
• Managing Successful Vendor Contracts (Part 2)
  April 2008
  In a previous issue of FUMSI, I discussed the essential processes of preparation required for effective vendor and contract negotiation. So let's look...
  
  
• The Greening of a Business: Beyond the Bottom Line
  April 2008
  For many years the only time the word ‘environment' came up in a discussion about business, it was in terms of the ‘business environment' or the...
  
  
• RSS Feeds: Managing the Mechanism
  March 2008
  The great promise of RSS feeds was that they would save us from information overload. However, when subscribing to more feeds every day is just a click...
  
  
• Managing Successful Vendor Contracts: Part 1 - Preparation
  February 2008
  Successful contract and vendor management cuts costs, improves business performance and enhances vendor-client relationships. It wins the respect of...
  
  
• The Library in the Twenty-first Century: New Services for the Information Age
  January 2008
  Are libraries threatened with extinction, or are they morphing into a universal hub of information and knowledge, an indispensable factor in the success of...
  
  
• The Leaving Employee: Knowledge Management for Surviving and Thriving
  January 2008
  When a member of my team announced he was moving interstate a few years ago, I realised I was about to lose someone with four years of specialist product...
  
  
• 1997-2007: A Decade of Find, Use, Manage, Share
  December 2007
  On the evolutionary scale, 10 years isn't even a blip, not a blink, not a breath in. It's hardly anything at all. But on the information scale, especially...
  
  
• Methodology Mixer: Professional and Business Development for the Independent Worker
  November 2007
  Working as an independent worker can be a professionally liberating and exciting experience. You are more in control of your own destiny and there is an...
  
  
• Practice What You Preach: Building and Gaining Credibility with Clients
  November 2007
  I would love to say that I set out on my independent consultancy career fully equipped with a 5-year strategic plan, divided into short-, medium- and...
  
  
• Charting a New Course: The Future of Information Work
  October 2007
  Over the last 12 months at the University of Brighton we have been setting up some new postgraduate awards in information management to complement our...
  
  
• FUMSI Report Excerpt: Preparing and planning an audit
  October 2007
  In recent years, much progress has been made in the way organisations gain value from information audits. Now there is a range of experienced...
  
  
• Business Information Trends: Locking Down and Opening Up Content
  August 2007
  The last few months have seen established information companies increasingly offering free quality data. At the same time, changes in the way broker firms...
  
  
• DIY Detection: Competitive Intelligence for SMEs
  August 2007
  Gaining a competitive advantage presents an enormous challenge for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Usually they will have many competitors offering...
  
  
• Vigilant Due Diligence
  June 2007
  One could argue that today's global landscape hosts more risks to country, corporate and individual safety than ever before. Consider the war in Iraq, the...
  
  
• Special Report: Information Architecture Summit 2007
  May 2007
  Information architects do not appear to be big fans of gambling. At my lunch table at the eighth annual gathering of information architects in Las Vegas,...
  
  
• Mentors and Mentees: Structuring a Professional Relationship
  May 2007
  [The following article is based on a presentation given by Heather Carine to the Australian Law Librarians' Association (South Australian Branch) on 5 March...
  
  
• Tough Love: Excelling at Customer Service Is Not Just One Big Happy-Clappy Hugfest
  April 2007
  In 2001 I was asked to put a pool table into Prenax's converted industrial loft offices in North London. At this time, 'fun' was one of our three values...
  
  
• All tied up? Escaping the Tangle of Red Tape
  March 2007
  'It doesn't affect me.' 'If I ignore it, maybe it will go away.' 'I don't have time for it.' These are just a few of the claims that I have been...
  
  
• Convergence Counselling: Integration of IT Departments and Libraries
  December 2006
  Integrating libraries and computer services, often together with other service units, has been one of the most interesting developments in universities,...
  
  
• 2001 to 2006: Five Years of Information Architecture
  December 2006
  In 2001, FreePint featured an article on the still-new concept of information architecture (IA) in "Information Architecture and web Usability Resources"...
  
  
• Outsourcing Research Information: An Introduction
  October 2006
  The global information industry has been a witness to phenomenal changes in recent times. Recent industry estimates peg the global information industry at...
  
  
• IT Compliance Conference: Interesting Landscape on the Other Side of the Information Fence
  October 2006
  
  
  
• Transcontinental Teamwork: A Collaborative Case Study in Using Multilingual and Multinational Information Resources
  September 2006
  Marcy Phelps, Denver, Colorado, USA -- As an independent information professional, it's easy to fall into the 'Lone Wolf Syndrome'. You become so...
  
  
• EThOS: A New Start for Doctoral Theses in the UK
  April 2007
  But who will benefit from EThOS? And why establish the service now? The context of a thesis: a university or college Global access to...
  
  
• Digital Repositories in UK universities and colleges
  February 2006
  What's in a word? Sometimes a word acquires so many meanings that it becomes difficult to use clearly. This happened to 'portal', and it may be...
  
  

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