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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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