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Sweeble: Making Print Production Accessible
July 2009
Alfred Sirleaf has made a bit of name for himself online with his low-tech-as-it-gets approach to news blogging. But few of the FaceBookers and...
Computers in Libraries 2009: Spreading Ideas
June 2009
The official theme of this year's Computers in Libraries (CIL) conference was 'Creating Tomorrow: Spreading Ideas & Learning', but it is the concept of...
Copyright and Content: Sharing in a Digital Age
June 2009
The networked nature of the Internet has changed a great deal in the ways that we share and communicate information between people and between...
Find and Share Information on the Internet : Part 2
May 2009
There's usually a steep learning curve before you ‘get' a social media site. Take Twitter . You can write updates limited to 140 characters (so you...
Find and Share information on the Internet : Part 1
April 2009
The Internet is larger than the biggest library you could imagine. At nearly 200 million, the number of websites is up to twice the number of books ever...
Knowledge for Survival
March 2009
Rezal Karim is a 22-year-old student living in Faridpur, Bangladesh. In this most vulnerable area, floods are becoming more common place and precious...
Data Visualisation: Tools and Examples
February 2009
Data is the life blood of the communication channel we refer to as the Internet; its visualisation has become an area of, at times, radical innovation....
Internet Librarian International 2008
February 2009
Following my conclusions from attending the ILI 2006 conference, namely that Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and social networking tools are here to stay, and that...
Federated Search: A Year of Blogging
January 2009
I started the Federated Search Blog on 3 December 2007. It's been a year full of major life changes, tremendous learning and much personal growth....
Euro IA Review
November 2008
This year's fourth annual EuroIA Summit ( http://www.euroia.org ) took place in Amsterdam in the impressive art deco surroundings of the Tuschinski Theatre...
Wikis at Sun Microsystems: The Ongoing Evolution
October 2008
August and September of 2008 are two months of intense wiki training for me. To be clear, I'm giving the training, not receiving it.
I currently...
Corporate Blogging: How To Be Open
September 2008
I work for the BBC. Do you want to know how much I'm paid?
I'm not going to tell you. I've always considered my salary to be confidential information....
Coming Soon: European Day of Languages
September 2008
"Ein Bier, bitte." "Posso avere un gelato, per favore?" "Je t'aime." "Gracias."
We are surrounded by languages but do we make the most
of this? Recent...
Secret Leeds: Share Your Secrets, Share Your City
August 2008
Secret Leeds is
a website which came about as part of the Celebrate Leeds 2007
festival, the 800th anniversary of the signing of the town's...
SLA: In Focus
August 2008
The 2008 SLA (Special Libraries Association) Annual Conference in Seattle bought together more than 5,000 participants, exhibitors and speakers. Over the...
Intranet 2.0: Ten Not-So-Easy Steps
July 2008
Thousands of corporate intranets are seldom-used, impossibly complex beasts. In contrast, next-generation intranets are simple, social platforms that can...
The EU: Closer Than You Thought!
June 2008
The biggest survey ever carried out by the European Commission in the UK showed that well over half of respondents said they knew only a bit about the EU,...
Web 2.0 + Intranet: Connected Users
March 2008
This article is based on a joint presentation made at Online 2007 by Helen Day, Executive Director, Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF) and Mark Morrell, BT...
Laughing at the CIO
March 2008
Written by Bob Boiko
Any book
the uses the phrase "smack-down" in complete seriousness is okay by
me. Bob Boiko's book Laughing at the CIO: A...
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...
Your Online Identity: Key to Marketing and Being Found
October 2007
We all have different identities that change depending on where we are
and who we are with. There is fluidity to our identity in different
contexts;...
Journal Lifecycle: Keeping Track of Periodicals
October 2007
When I asked through the FreePint Bar back in December 2006 whether anyone had practical solutions to dealing with journal circulation, I only received one...
CI: Collaborative Intelligence
June 2007
Like most CI practitioners and academics, I always took the term CI to stand for 'competitive intelligence'. I taught a class on the subject in the MBA...
Beyond Music: Integrating Podcasting into Your Business
February 2007
On 30 June 2005, podcasting came of age when Apple announced that in the first two days podcasts were offered on iTunes, users subscribed to more than one...
Life of the Party: Social Web Browsers
February 2007
You may think the Web browsers we currently use are fine. They've helped the Web grow to its present state, keep us connected and disperse information with...
Emulating Web Tools to Become Indispensable to Your Users
September 2006
Do you remember where you were the first time you heard about Google? I do. It was 2002, and I was enrolled in the library technician programme at SAIT, a...
Working with a Usability Specialist
August 2006
Most companies are focused on everything but people. I'm certain you've seen the same thing. The focus is on profits, engineering, marketing, operations and...
Writing and Editing for the Library Website
August 2006
When Imperial College London Library migrated its website to a content management system, I found myself in a new position: Web content manager. In this...
Embracing the Wiki Way: Deploying a Corporate Wiki
July 2006
Wikis, currently one of the biggest buzzwords in online publishing, helped solve a problem for my company, Ingenta. We needed to share information between...
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