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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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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