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Recent Articles on Share
- Beyond newsletters: tips for internal communication
3 February 2012 |
How often have you heard the phrase "we need a newsletter!"? It’s one of the cheapest, easiest and most common ways of disseminating information within an organisation, but all too often they sit unread in email inboxes. It is important to carefuly consider a few factors before starting up a newsletter. Full article »
- You do what exactly?
3 February 2012 |
Usually 30-60 seconds in length, the elevator pitch is thought to be one of the most important tools used to describe what you or your business does. How do information professionals describe their work? How do you plant the seed of curiosity? Full article »
- Keeping up with conferences via apps
30 January 2012 |
One way to build conference excitement and keep attendees abreast of happenings is through conference apps. While one app cannot meet the needs of all attendees, several apps used together help professionals stay connected at the conference and with clients back home. Full article »
- Is Pinterest of interest to the info pro?
21 January 2012 |
Pinterest - the social network that allows you to create a virtual pinboard of things you've collected from around the world - is rapidly growing in use. What role might it play in the digital world of the information professional? Full article »
- A different kind of challenge
16 January 2012 |
For many, The New Year provides an opportunity to set goals for the year. If you're anything like me you'll be looking for a new challenge. This is exactly what I did when I signed up for Janathon. For those not "in the know" Janathon is a yearly running challenge which asks participants to run every day during January. You're probably wondering how a running challenge has any relevance to managing information or sharing content. I believe Janathon is a great example of how we could encourage users within our own organisations to start using tools they might otherwise be reticent about using or even unaware of. Full article »
- Twitter list management
8 January 2012 |
If you are running a social media presence, or using social media as research tools, then there a couple of things worth noting in Hunter Walk's blog about how we tend to inevitably add more noise to our social media than we need to. Particularly pertinent is the idea that following back anybody who follows you on Twitter is the "polite" and correct thing to do. It seems rude not to. But as humans ourselves there is a limit to the number of information sources we can manage. Full article »
- Investigating the uses for (and usefulness of) Google+
4 January 2012 |
After Google Buzz and Google Wave, most people consider Google+ to be the company's third attempt to "do" social software. They've clearly got a large user base for search and Gmail, which they hope to convert to using the service. 2012 is probably the make or break year for Google+ having, it seems, performed better than many analysts expected in 2011. Full article »
- "Frictionless sharing" - exploring the changes to Facebook
3 January 2012 |
End users of Facebook may well be divided in their opinion of the introduction of frictionless sharing, but Martin Belam’s article will forewarn you about its effect on metadata, audit trails and content publishing, so that you can be forearmed. Full article »
- Seven things I've learnt about organising a conference
1 December 2011 |
With the help of the internet and social media, it’s now possible to organise a conference without a large advertising budget and an army of staff. You just need to follow Jonathan Khan’s seven-point plan – developed from personal experience – to create a successful conference. Full article »
- "Predux" - How to improve conferences through peer-reviewed rehearsals
1 November 2011 |
Conferences are great places to get up-to-date and generally build your knowledge, but how often has a conference been less than perfect because of the quality of some presentations? This is where the “predux” comes in. As Theba Islam explains, this allows speakers to test out their presentations, and receive constructive criticism, from a small group of their peers before an event. Full article »
- The Guardian Teacher Network: The Teacher As Consumer
3 October 2011 |
Providing exactly what the user needs, in the format and at the time that works best for them, should be the ultimate aim of any website or web app. In her article about the Guardian Teacher Network website, Katie Roden demonstrates how having a Twitter strategy can lead to engagement of users so that a website provides a tailored user experience and evolves as needs change. Full article »
- Write here, right now - how Tumblr changed blogging: Part two
1 September 2011 |
In the second part of a two-part article, Will Myddelton and Martin Belam look at how Tumblr is being used by a range of organisations, from libraries to news organisations, and how easy it is to search for niche information and follow tumblelogs. Full article »
- Write here, right now - how Tumblr changed blogging: Part One [ABSTRACT]
1 August 2011 |
Tumblr may not be as well known as Wordpress or Twitter but it offers an interesting alternative because it is easy to set up, and allows you to publish as much or as little as you want using a free iPhone app, by email or by phone. In this first part of a two-part article, Will Myddelton and Martin Belam explain why Tumblr is popular. Full article »
- Ebooks and libraries - a missed opportunity to evolve? [ABSTRACT]
1 July 2011 |
Over the years, public libraries have successfully redefined themselves when new publishing media have arrived but Matthew Solle questions whether their approach to lending eBooks will jeopardise their future, and considers how further and higher education are tackling this issue. Full article »
- BBC World Service and Twitter [ABSTRACT]
1 June 2011 |
Social media have changed news gathering not only for individuals but for venerable institutions like BBC World Service. Programmes and presenters can now interact with their audiences in a more immediate way and, via Twitter, audiences can be involved in history as it unfolds through tweets from reporters on the spot. Abigail Sawyer describes the impact of Twitter on BBC World Service. Full article »
- An introduction to "Linked and Open Data" for information professionals [ABSTRACT]
3 May 2011 |
The linking of parts of documents and other materials offered by the Linked Data approach to the web, coupled with the open data philosophy adopted by governments, could offer researchers the chance to identify links between data not possible before and save an enormous amount of time. Zach Beauvais explains how it works. Full article »
- The ALISS project - sharing data to support people with long term health conditions [ABSTRACT]
4 April 2011 |
Searching the web for information about medical conditions can mean that you are swamped with useless, and often disconcerting, results. This is particularly true when you need help and support with a long-term health condition rather than descriptions of symptoms and treatments. The ALISS project aims to overcome this for people in Scotland by unlocking information currently in databases, lists and directories. Full article »
- SharePoint and the South Bank Centre: using analogies to sell a story [ABSTRACT]
1 March 2011 |
Changing the technology behind an intranet is a difficult enough task, but doing it while keeping the intranet running is even more challenging. In part two of his article on implementing SharePoint to deliver the BBC’s intranet, Gateway, Nic Price describes the gradual approach they took by introducing MySites, blogging and search as the foundation on which to build. Full article »
- SharePoint - Face your fear and do it anyway: Part 1 [ABSTRACT]
2 February 2011 |
The introduction of initiatives to simply the way that business is done can often cause a lot of disruption during the change before any benefits are seen. And, trying to keep a service functioning during the change adds another level of difficulty. In this two part series, Nic Price describes what happened at the BBC when Gateway, their intranet, was moved to SharePoint. Full article »
- HTML5 for Information Professionals [ABSTRACT]
4 January 2011 |
HTML5, with its 30 news tags, is not ‘just’ another version of HTML, it promises to bring changes that will be welcomed by information professionals as well as techies. Not only will it be easier to extract data from web pages but it will also be simpler to deliver the same article content over multiple platforms, and in multiple formats. Share Contributing Editor Martin Belam provides a non-technical overview of what to expect. Full article »
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