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It is about becoming a KM practitioner. Integrated and Aggregated Teaching, Training, Theory, practice, service, and research prospects. Areas of Interest: Activity (capture, index, disseminate, and utilize); Background knowledge (tacit, explicit, and cor
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Harvard Unveils Web Tool for Studying Media Trends
Harvard Unveils Web Tool for Studying Media Trends: The Chronicle of Higher Education "There’s a lot of debate over the state of the news media these days, but a team of researchers at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society ...
Return-on-Investment in library practice
Many wonder how to account for a place, such as a library, where "what goes into a library isn’t what comes out," to use Andrew L. Pearson's expression. Here is a book in hand, thanks to Steven Bell, for identifying such an important title: Library...
Data Mining Pays Off: 'I'm a PC' made on a Mac
'I'm a PC' made on a Mac Asher Moses, September 24, 2008 - The Sydney Morning Herald"Microsoft's "I'm a PC" advertising campaign was created on a Mac and the celebrity spruikers brought in by the software giant are all professed Apple fans, it has be...
Mining for Information -- Chemistry of a Service Provider
"Take one qualified information professional, mix into a new sector and add some limited resources. Hopefully you can get a decent information service from the results..." @ Posted by The Solo Librarian ...
Cyber Worship Resource of the Week is A Buddhist Prayer for Lost Information
... According to the Web site guide to Buddhist memorial services, on October 24 of every year, at the Daioh Temple of Rinzai Zen Buddhism in Kyoto, Japan, the head priest conducts a prayer for lost information. Recognizing that "many `living' docume...
what are pricing models available for Online Adverisements ?
Q & A @ LinkedInwhat are pricing models available for Online Adverisements ?Asked by: Md Abubucker Alathick. 5 Answers | February 15, 2007 in Advertising | Closed...
What Really is Benchmarking?
by Rana Sinha, Apr 10, 2008Have you ever wondered what Benchmarking really means? Is it just management hype or jargon used by expensive consultants? Here is a short outline of Benchmarking as used in business organizations. ...exxtract:Different kin...
Who's tracking your health? Paging Dr. Internet
IVOR TOSSELL, The Globe and Mail, May 23, 2008 [posted here with permission of the author]Google, pursuing its strategy of monetizing omniscience, has launched a product that will track every bit of your health information. Everyone together now: Yik...
Microsoft kills Book Search project
From Microsoft's Live Search blog:"Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be int...
The difference between cooperation and coordination
After writing our paper on collaboration there were several things we wanted to explore that just wouldn't fit into the original work. We are interested in when it's unhelpful to collaborate, examples of when collaboration has failed, and how collabo...
Push vs. Pull: Trends in Retail Shopping
Something I read in this month’s issue of Fast Company resonated with me:"When employees become sharers of information, instead of sellers of products, customers respond." (Full article: Magic Shop by Alex Frankel) Once a consumer enters the door o...
Researching with Wikipedia: The Experiences of Experienced Librarians
A quote from 'Many hands make crappy work' New Jack Librarian's blog: "Its largely unsaid, but Wikipedia is thought to improve by means of a strange evolution-like process...1. Anyone, irrespective of expertise in or even familiarity with the topic, ...
Managing Information Overload: News and Views
News Media @ CBCCBC Sparks transparency Eye Weekly, Canada - 18 Feb 2008, Today on the Scroll: CBC Radio tries covering technology in a style that fails to shock and appall its existing listenership while doing double duty in earbuds everywhere... B...
Wikipedia and Wikiscanner in the Newsroom
WikiScanner: List anonymous wikipedia edits from interesting ... The much discussed list of anonymous edits on Wikipedia from well known organizations. wikiscanner.virgil.gr/Spin Doctor: Matt Withers, ic Wales, United Kingdom - 10 Feb 2008 [But someb...
Third undersea Internet cable cut in Mideast -- Resource Shelf Blog Re-visited
Are you reading this the News Headlines?Internet: a wake-up call:'Dawn' stresses the importance of devoting resources to protect and maintain functional Internet service, @ AsiaMediaDo you have an idea of tools that are for free and help you support ...
The ComputerWorld Canada View: Search no more
By: ComputerWorld Canada staff (25 Jan 2008) Out of nowhere, it seems, the news has been full of enterprise search-related stories, including the acquisition of long-time player Fast by Microsoft and the release of user- and human-powered search eng...
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't)
For HBS professor Andrew McAfee, Wikipedia is a surprisingly high-quality product. But when his concept of "Enterprise 2.0" turned up on the online encyclopedia one day—and was recommended for deletion—McAfee and colleague Karim R. Lakhani knew t...
The Tacit Knowledge of Team Leadership
Posted by Sam Marshall @ Intellectual Capital PunishmentDon't let the title ofTowards an Ecological Theory of Sustainable Knowledge Networks by Jeff Conklin, et al put you off. Its full of insight about project teams (rather than knowledge networks...
