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<title>Finding your passion</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ If you're anything like me, you're likely to have lots of things you do outside of work that you're passionate about and you really enjoy doing. But what about whilst you're at work? It is good to consider what it is that you enjoy doing so much that you will evangelise. For me, it [...]]]></description>
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<title>Seeking a cure for email overload</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ "The biggest disease in our company is the cc! Why do we cc the world?!". This comment was overheard on the tube into Canary Wharf. It typifies the frustration of returning from a relaxing holiday break to an inevitable email avalanche. With a range of social media at our fingertips, it is easy to [...]]]></description>
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<title>From fragmentation to coherence: Building an information professional community for all</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ If you are concerned about why, in an information age, information professionals are largely marginalised, then Mark Field&rsquo;s article will give you food for thought as he debates how info pros must work together to keep the profession relevant and appreciated in the 21 st Century. ]]></description>
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<title>Social Networks in the workplace - some data protection issues</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ There are many benefits to be gained from using social networks in the workplace but there is a downside &ndash; a growing concern about privacy and misuse of personal information. Using the results from a survey he conducted to highlight the issues, David Haynes puts forward an approach to managing social networks through the [...]]]></description>
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<title>Reinventing librarians: Part 2 - Use knowledge of resources and use to enhance the procurement process</title>
<link>http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/65288</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ By their very nature, librarians are good at knowing what their users need. They listen, they understand the organisation, they monitor usage of current resources, and they hear about and evaluate new resources, which puts them in an ideal position to provide valuable input to the procurement process. In Part 2 of the series [...]]]></description>
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<title>Connecting the Dots: A Semantic Web Primer</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The much talked-about semantic web appears to be getting ever closer and organisations like Google, Best Buy, TripIt and ZoomInfo are already using semantic technologies to connect with users or increase their online presence. Candice Fong provides a very useful introduction to the technologies and tools, and questions whether law may benefit from the [...]]]></description>
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<title>Managing stakeholder relationships - the importance of cognitive behaviour</title>
<link>http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/64863</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Successfully managing stakeholder relationships is vital to any organisation which not only wants to grow but also retain its customers. Defining stakeholder groups and their characteristics is the start of the process but going back to the basics of human cognitive behaviour is at the heart of it. In her article, Emma Kinani looks [...]]]></description>
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<title>SharePoint and the law firm intranet [ABSTRACT]</title>
<link>http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/64626</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ A SharePoint 2007 bilingual intranet has enabled knowledge sharing and collaboration at law firm Osler, Hoskin &amp; Harcourt LLP as each staff member can create and comment on content . Jennifer McNenly explains how this works and looks at the improved features migration to SharePoint 2010 will bring. ]]></description>
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<title>Reinventing librarians: Part 1 [ABSTRACT]</title>
<link>http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/64457</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The relocation of law collections to the relevant departments provides the perfect opportunity for librarians and research specialists to embed themselves within practice groups or departments. Marlene Gebauer shows the resultant perception that the librarian is part of that practice area greatly enhances information exchange, and describes how to go about making this change [...]]]></description>
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<title>Designing the Samurai sword: using facets to support agile, highly-effective information management [ABSTRACT]</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ How can info pros help users to find information when both organisations and information are evolving and becoming more complex? Jennifer Smith is convinced that adopting a faceted system, which assigns types and attributes to information, is the key and describes the ONEIS system which a number of information-rich organisations have successfully implemented. ]]></description>
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<title>Managing the flow of information with social tools [ABSTRACT] </title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 12:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ As consumer social tools like Twitter and Facebook start to encroach on our professional lives should we see this as a blessing or a threat? Stuart Barr looks at the many benefits which these tools can bring to the organisation, from being able to collaborate seamlessly with colleagues around the world to finding out [...]]]></description>
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<title>Managing information about people [ABSTRACT]</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ In a security-conscious world it is increasingly difficult for organisations to ensure that one of their major assets &ndash; their customer details &ndash; are collected without scaring the user and are appropriate for their needs. Karen Loasby looks at the diversity of factors to take into account; from law, security and privacy, to user [...]]]></description>
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<title>Information management lessons from &quot;Austin Powers&quot; [ABSTRACT]</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Using Austin Powers&rsquo; nemesis Dr Evil as an example when considering information management may, on the face of it, appear to be a bit far-fetched but Scott Brown shows the similarities between Dr Evil and upper management. And, from there, he gives a few lessons on how to deal with your executives and avoid [...]]]></description>
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<title>Content analysis: Describing your landscape [ABSTRACT]</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Having a clear idea of the content on our intranets and websites is the key to ensuring that the user experience is optimised and findability is high. But the idea of carrying out an information audit can be daunting, particularly when we feel we know where the content problems lie. So try this practical [...]]]></description>
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<title>Improving intranet navigation with user research &amp; testing [ABSTRACT]</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The success of any intranet is dependent on its usability and the satisfaction levels of its users. So understanding how your users browse and what journeys they take on the intranet is essential. Manage Contributing Editor Kate Simpson provides some very practical tips and tools for delving into the users&rsquo; minds and turning that [...]]]></description>
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<title>ISKO UK's Legal Know-How event: Organization &amp; semantic analysis [ABSTRACT]</title>
<link>http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/62327</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The inability to find certain information when searching is frustrating to all info pros but for those dealing with legal knowledge that missing document could have devastating consequences. To provide help, ISKO UK ran a Legal Know-How event which covered faceted systems, taxonomies, metadata, ontologies and centralised repositories, all of which aim to help [...]]]></description>
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<title>Software for taxonomy creation and management [ABSTRACT]</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ There are many tools that can be used to create taxonomies from Excel, for those that are simple, to large scale, multi-user thesaurus systems, for those that are complex. In addition, there are many systems which are built for one purpose (for example content management) but also offer some taxonomy functionality. To steer us [...]]]></description>
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<title>For digital asset management, search is not enough</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems bring the promise of increasingly sophisticated search techniques but all that glistens may not be gold. Fran Alexander examines the pros and cons of tagging, content-based image retrieval, face recognition, digital fingerprinting and screen-to-text, and concludes that they are very exciting but may be in the category of 'nice [...]]]></description>
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<title>Treasuring Twitter: The why and how of preserving tweets</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Twitter started as method of exchanging 'inconsequential' information between individuals but is increasingly being seen as significant communication and marketing tool for organisations, so much so that they should be considering a preservation strategy for their tweets. Marieke Guy looks at why tweets should be preserved and what tools are available. ]]></description>
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<title>iPhone apps for researchers</title>
<link>http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4715</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ With over 244,000 apps available for Apple's iPhone and iTouch, are there any which can help business researchers? Patrice Curtis examines a range of apps for finding news, reputation monitoring, productivity and reference, and answers three simple questions for each: is it easy to use; can a researcher use it to share findings with [...]]]></description>
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