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• Presentation Tools: Beyond Powerpoint
  March 2010
  Often at work we research and produce data that will eventually assist someone, somewhere, making a presentation - and chances are they...
  
  
• How To Network and LIKE It: A 10 Point Plan
  February 2010
  These are interesting times for information professionals - and not just in the proverbial sense. There's such a lot going on: so many...
  
  
• Say hello to Google Wave
  January 2010
  and Martin Belam We send 247 billion emails a day ( http://digbig.com/5bawak ) - but the basics of email haven't evolved much since the first...
  
  
• Trends for 2010: Information Sharing
  December 2009
  There is no doubt that the shockwaves following the financial collapse of some of the best known banks and financial institutions made 2009...
  
  
• Networking: Overcoming Your Hesitation
  November 2009
  Information professionals are in a brilliant position to become fantastic networkers because sharing information is a fundamental element in...
  
  
• Get to Know Your Plumbing: Protecting Your Organisation From Leaking 'Soft Information'
  October 2009
  Today more than ever before, the essence of any organisation is driven and motivated by relationships between people within and outside of the...
  
  
• Social media strategy: How I Became an Expert in Three Days
  September 2009
  I was asked to come in for an interview, to maintain green.tv's social media profile. I knew very little about social media sites. I...
  
  
• Guardian Research and Information: The Evolution
  August 2009
  The recent revival of 'Alphabetical Order,' Michael Frayn's 1975 play about a cuttings library of a local newspaper, provided a rare...
  
  
• 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 Twitterers...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Designing for the Social: Avoiding Anti-Social Networks
  November 2008
  This article is based on the presentation ‘Designing for the social: avoiding anti-social networks' given by Miles Rochford to the Information...
  
  
• RSS and Scholarly Journal Tables of Contents: the ticTOCs Project, and Good Practice Guidelines for Publishers
  October 2008
  RSS feeds enable frequently updated content to be delivered efficiently to users. Users can ‘subscribe' to feeds, where available from their favourite...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  
• If Members Won’t Come: The Royal Society of Chemistry Builds a Virtual Library
  April 2008
  This article describes the journey the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Library has taken from being a very traditional learned society library to its...
  
  
• Identity Theft: The Fastest Growing Crime Wave and Our Role
  April 2008
  While identity theft is by no means a new crime, it seems to have become all the rage, with the numbers of victims each year increasing at a tremendous...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Online Digital Special Collections in English Universities: Promoting Awareness
  February 2008
  Cultural institutions in the UK are repositories of a wealth of historical material. The scholarly importance of such resources is at the basis of the...
  
  
• Widgets for Content Distribution: A Shift in the Internet
  January 2008
  Build it and they will come. That was the promise of the early days of the Internet. There was a race to develop large portals, packed with content....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Project Handbook Report and Tool Kit: Research and Scoping
  July 2007
  [The latest report from FUMSI, The Project Handbook, is a tip-packed resource that helps those looking to document projects. This first chapter shows how...
  
  
• Calling in the Specialists: Enhancing Your Services with Subcontractors
  July 2007
  In the 21 September 2006 issue of the FreePint Newsletter, I wrote about my experiences working with Udo Hohlfeld, a subcontractor I hired to help me add...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Leveraging the Power of White Papers: How to Create White Papers That Persuade
  November 2006
  The world is flooded with messages that are competing for the attention of readers. Recently, the white paper has emerged as a compelling tool that...
  
  
• Internet Librarian International: Impressions from a First-Time Attendee
  November 2006
  Attending the Internet Librarian International 2006 conference this year was a new experience for me. Not only was I a first-time attendee to ILI, held in...
  
  
• Think Globally; Write Locally: What Source Writers Need to Know About Localisation
  September 2006
  Information professionals deal with fewer borders than many other business people. Researchers often work for clients in different countries, and many...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• The Project Handbook: How to Write Clear and Cogent End-User Documentation
  September 2006
  Mention project documentation and the usual set of documents aimed at keeping things on track come to mind: the project plan, initiation document, reports....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Positive Steps To Assessing, Monitoring and Comparing the Accessibility of Public Websites: Introducing The European Internet Accessibility Observatory
  August 2006
  Sometimes, simply launching a website can take a huge amount of time and effort, never mind making sure it is consistent with every type of web browser 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...
  
  
• Distance learning as a collaborative enterprise: Tips on teamwork to make the class work
  June 2006
  If you haven't yet been asked to run, participate in or support a distance-learning programme, you will likely get the call (or the email) sometime soon....
  
  
• Beyond the library walls - establishing an information literacy programme for a dispersed user group
  May 2006
  The Information Services of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the UK government agency responsible for health and safety at work, has always...
  
  
• Can I have a little service here?: Being a great customer and getting what you need from vendors
  March 2006
  For the past four years, FreePint has sponsored a competitive award in recognising excellence in customer service. The award is announced and presented,...
  
  

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