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  • Turning space challenges into an eLibrary opportunity
    10 May 2012 | | 404 Views

    Like the larger economy, the legal marketplace continues to experience unprecedented change. As we barrel forward in the electronic and information age, those changes continue to affect law firms and other organisations across the world. The firm library can turn these challenges into opportunities by applying new strategies to old ideas, and engaging vendors to help solve problems.

     

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  • The Phantom: menace or maverick? The psychology of enterprise social media participation
    3 May 2012 | | 573 Views

    How do you get people actively chatting on your newly installed enterprise social media system? Enter the Phantom...

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  • Jumping on the social business bandwagon
    24 April 2012 | | 753 Views

    Social business is a term that IT and Information Professionals have been looking at closely for a while. But what does it actually mean for an organisation and what is the difference between social media and social business?

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  • Collaboration can be hard to define
    20 April 2012 | | 961 Views

    What does collaboration mean to you? Does it mean sharing documents with colleagues and collaborating on them? Collaboration should be about people working together to develop a common approach to situations and devising tactics and strategies that help them move forward. 

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  • Sharing documents socially
    16 April 2012 | | 591 Views

    Yammer, the enterprise social network, which allows employees to post short updates, create pages and upload files, has announced that it has purchased online collaboration tool oneDrum. Will this combination make sense for the enterprise?

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  • Using Twitter to manage information
    11 April 2012 | | 778 Views

    Twitter was founded in March 2006 as a social networking and microblogging service, inspired by taxi drivers, couriers and limousine drivers’ use of dispatch software. Each Twitter user (Tweeter or Tweep) has a unique username, which is referenced in "mentions", "retweets" and direct messages. Although limited to 140 characters, tweets can be enhanced by including links to blogs, websites, videos and more.

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  • Diversify your business networking with these LinkedIn alternatives
    2 April 2012 | | 767 Views

    Just as Google isn’t the only search engine, YouTube isn’t the only source for online videos and Twitter isn’t the only option for microblogging, LinkedIn isn’t the only social networking source for business and professional interaction. The LinkedIn alternatives presented below may be just the ticket to diversifying your networking strategy.

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  • Take a full-circle view of information sharing
    29 March 2012 | | 575 Views

    As children, we’re taught that sharing is the right thing to do. As information professionals, it’s a fundamental part of what we do. When we need to share information with our internal clients, how can we do this in the most efficient and effective way?

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  • Disassociation and library associations
    9 March 2012 | | 735 Views

    Most people accept that we live in a fragmented world. Social, political, economic and technological change seems to happen on a regular basis and at times it can be hard to keep up. Within the information profession, change might appear to occur more slowly.

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  • Reaching your intended audience
    29 February 2012 | | 933 Views

    New information professionals struggle with the decision whether or not to specialise and narrow their target client base to one or two particular niches. Once the decision has been made, you must then find the clients. LinkedIn Answers and tweet chats provide not only spaces to interact virtually with potential clients but also opportuntities to listen to conversations related to your field of interest.

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  • Case studies - Part 2: Some solutions
    29 February 2012 | | 830 Views

    Writing case studies is seen as a dull chore which only becomes urgent when a proposal deadline looms, and a mass scramble ensues. So how can you break this cycle and ensure that case studies are readily available? 

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  • Case studies - Part 1: The problem
    28 February 2012 | | 924 Views

    Case studies: all your users want them, but nobody wants to write them. Case studies are written examples of where the organisation has carried out a successful engagement, usually of high contractual value or strategic importance. They can be used for internal learning purposes and external marketing.

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  • Getting jiggy with Google+
    28 February 2012 | | 682 Views

    Are you one of the 100 million individuals that are currently using Google+? Google+ has been described as a cross between LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. It is actually a collection of different social features including a stream (newsfeed), hangouts (video chat service), photos and games.

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  • Linking LinkedIn to your intranet
    24 February 2012 | | 1158 Views

    Earlier this week LinkedIn announced that it was considering developing an intranet service for businesses. This won't come as a surprise to many people and is certainly a good move by LinkedIn as it will build on the work that many organisations have been doing with social networking tools internally. One of the main ideas behind an internal social network is to try to foster communication between employees and encourage an open and collaborative environment with the hope that individuals will feel more motivated

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  • Enterprise microblogging solutions offer a private place for open communication
    23 February 2012 | | 692 Views

    The popularity of Twitter, with its fast, easy way of communicating with the masses, caught on quickly bringing microblogging to the social media spotlight. However, the ability to communicate via Twitter may not be adequate for enterprise communications. Enter enterprise microblogging solutions.

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  • The social intranet - white paper, case study, webinar and a PR stunt
    21 February 2012 | | 871 Views

    The so-called "social intranet" has been the next-big-thing for years. Over the last few days a white paper, a case study, a webinar and a PR stunt on the topic have all caught my eye.

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  • Agile strategy and development
    10 February 2012 | | 668 Views

    In the bad old days, IT would go out to the business, write down a big list of requirements, build a shiny new product and unveil it to the business three months later with a big “Ta Da!”. Sadly, too often the outcome would be a product that fitted the initial brief, but didn’t hit the needs of the business. Thankfully we’ve moved on since then, and "agile" offers a set of methodologies used by many development teams. It is particularly prevalent in relation to collaboration tools e.g. websites, SharePoint and social media.

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  • Managing information, opportunities and the role of info pros
    9 February 2012 | | 603 Views

    You probably feel you have a good sense of the assets of your organisation. However most organisations actually have no idea about how much information they have stored away, because no one has bothered to track it down and count it. This year one of my clients discovered they owned 45TB of information contained in 6000 Lotus Notes databases, but had no way of searching this vast repository. We worked out that staff time being wasted in creating information that no one could find was around €150Million a year. That was the equivalent of building 10 new factories!

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  • Strategic use of social media - Heron & Hughes at news:rewired
    8 February 2012 | | 571 Views

    At the news:rewired event in London last week, Liz Heron and Nicola Hughes both gave great insights into their uses of social media. At the New York Times Liz is mostly concerned with the best strategic way for the paper to use social media, whilst Nicola Hughes uses social media as a powerful investigative tool.

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  • Does Facebook have a future?
    7 February 2012 | | 663 Views

    The Facebook valuation has stirred up a great deal of press debate. It is expected that the IPO valuation will come in at $75-100 billion, giving Facebook a higher value than Boeing, American Express and Nike. Unsurprisingly, people are wondering if this is another dot com bubble. Social networks haven’t fared well following buyouts so there is a lot of speculation on Facebook’s future.

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