Pipes Output http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=GqdV6bZG3RGSEYISJphxuA Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:01:34 -0700 http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/4529 Often at work we research and produce data that will eventually assist someone, somewhere, making a presentation - and chances are they... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4528 "Every term is sacred, Every term unique. So we give them facets To find them when we seek." A flight engineer... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4527 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/4526 In 2008 I gave a Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) webinar on the evolving field of social media. There was so much... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/4472 These are interesting times for information professionals - and not just in the proverbial sense. There's such a lot going on: so many... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4471 Carpe diem! Organisations of all types are in dire need of the skills of information professionals. With information production growing exponentially, who... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4470 What are the tren ds for 2010? Fellow FUMSI editor Martin Belam thinks that social media tools have been hot news in 2009 and will... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/4469 Venture capital (VC) resources are used by a variety of businesses and researchers, but the primary users fall within three categories:... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/4438 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... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4437 While many of us have enjoyed the prospects that RSS promised, it generally remains an unused tool among those we support in our organisations. Perhaps... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4436 What are the trends for 2010? Fellow FUMSI editor Martin Belam thinks that social media tools have been hot news in 2009 and will continue to be in... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/4435 and Samara Omundson Information source evaluation has always been part of the research and information professional's job. As information formats and... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/4395 There is no doubt that the shockwaves following the financial collapse of some of the best known banks and financial institutions made 2009... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4394 Attending a conference or event today can result in a whirlwind of information and contacts. People attend these events with different... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4393 Literacy and inclusion are common themes in information use. We often think of disadvantaged communities that require unique ideas and... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/4392 In 2008, the worldwide automotive industry produced over 70 million vehicles, employed over nine million people, and represented ‘over... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/4339 Information professionals are in a brilliant position to become fantastic networkers because sharing information is a fundamental element in... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4340 As part of a recent role, I was involved in a major project that took me beyond my usual skill set as a librarian. I was not only helping... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4341 Whenever someone mentions the ter m 'mashup' I inevitably think of two things, 'Monster Mash' and mashed potatoes. Don't ask me why; I know... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/4342 Yahoo! Pipes application ( http://pipes.yahoo.com ) is a powerful tool for mashing up a variety of information. I've found it particularly useful for... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/4294 Today more than ever before, the essence of any organisation is driven and motivated by relationships between people within and outside of the... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4293 'Taxonomist' is one of the more specialist information management careers. How do you get started in this profession? We asked four taxonomists... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4292 Readers who work in further and higher education (FE/HE) across the UK may be familiar with JISC, also known as the Joint Information Systems Committee,... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/4218 Business appraisers in the U.S. often use the Transaction Method when valuing a privately-held company. This method, which is widely used... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/4219 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... Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4200 Let's face it right at the start, no ducking the issue, image tagging for business findability is hard - though the light at the end of the tunnel... Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4201 All businesses thrive on internal information. It drives their processes and helps to meet their goals, deliver strategies and help with... Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/4157 View Part 1 of this article » In Part one of this article three fundamental information-gathering... Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/4153 The recent revival of 'Alphabetical Order,' Michael Frayn's 1975 play about a cuttings library of a local newspaper, provided a rare... Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4154 It is not an exaggeration to say that the lifeblood of today's organisation, whether it be in the private or public sector, is information.... Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4155 What do you think of when you hear the words ‘home birth'? Do you envision a sudden emergency and a panic-stricken dash to the hospital, or... Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/4156 'For hundreds of years, one of the central planks of a decent education was being taught how to find information. In barely a half-dozen... Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/4022 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... Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4024 In Part 1 of this three-part series I talked about Intranet Zero and in Part 2 discussed a model for a robust intranet 1.0 - the ‘Lean Intranet'. In this... Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4023 How were you trained to find information? Possibly you were not trained at all. One would like to think otherwise, but I suspect most of us were plonked at... Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/4021 In my 25 years as a marketing professional focusing on competitive intelligence, I have noticed that the focus for information collection is increasingly... Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3932 The networked nature of the Internet has changed a great deal in the ways that we share and communicate information between people and between... Sun, 31 May 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3935 The official theme of this year's Computers in Libraries (CIL) conference was 'Creating Tomorrow: Spreading Ideas &Learning', but it is the concept of... Sun, 31 May 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3949 No hardware, no software, no hassle! Send your information into the cloud for an easier working life! Perhaps, but as responsible Information Managers,... Sun, 31 May 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3934 2009 is the ninetieth anniversary of Business Insight, Birmingham Central Library's business information service providing free business information and... Sun, 31 May 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3972 It is not an exaggeration to say that the lifeblood of today's organisation, whether it be in the private or public sector, is information. All... Sun, 31 May 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3933 In 2004 there were 6.5 billion people in the world; 18.6 million (2.9%) were severely disabled, and another 79.7 million had moderate disabilities (see... Sun, 31 May 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3907 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... Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3906 In the first of this series of three articles I talked about intranet zero; so called as it offers virtually zero benefit to users and their organizations.... Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3874 Written by Dennie Heye Whether working within government or for-profit organisations, information service departments will... Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3873 Remember the 'old days' when search engines couldn't find the content of a PDF? Those days are long gone, and in their place we have an... Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3792 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... Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3791 Folksonomies: Business Use Written by Fran Alexander. Folksonomies have become very popular on content-sharing websites such as Flickr... Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3790 EBooks and Traditional Texts: Complementary or Mutually Exclusive? Written by Kate Worlock The eBooks market has been poised for... Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3789 Finding Competitive Business Information in Six Steps Written by Heather Carine. People in business are always looking for information -... Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3731 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... Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3730 SharePoint, SharePoint, SharePoint - as an information management professional, I can't currently move for SharePoint engagements and, considering the... Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3729 Last autumn, having completed an enquiry about a company, its competitors and key market areas, I received an appreciative email back from my... Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3602 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... Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3619 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.... Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3618 There is an elephant in the intranet living room. In all that has been written about intranets, very few commentators ever mention the fact that intranets... Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3617 I sometimes struggle to define my role with clients. There are days that I would tell you that I am a researcher. Other days, I would tell you that I... Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3616 All information professionals will be familiar with the ‘Big Four' of search - Google, Yahoo, Live and Ask - even if they may habitually use only one or... Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3580 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.... Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3579 Following their recent ISKO UK presentation, Karen Loasby discusses automatic classification with freelance information architect Helen Lippell and BBC... Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3578 Contact centres are widely used by both the private and public sector as a means of ‘doing business' without having to go to a specific location. The... Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3584 It has been said that ‘You can find everything on the Internet'. But what happens when you are trying to locate information about... Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3460 Information Architects always want to know how easy our site is to use and how often it is used by the audiences we target. For the most part, few people... Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3376 This article is based on the presentation ‘Designing for the social: avoiding anti-social networks' given by Miles Rochford to the Information... Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3357 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... Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3380 Like many organisations, law firms have an odd relationship with information. They know information is really important, especially the really valuable... Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3378 The availability of so much information on the Internet, free at the point of use, has led the public into a false sense of security, believing that... Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3374 The ‘F' in FUMSI stands for ‘Find'. But how can you find if you don't know what you are looking for? As with anything else in life, the more clearly you... Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3328 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... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3356 RSS feeds enable frequently updated content to be delivered efficiently to users. Users can ‘subscribe' to feeds, where available from their favourite... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3327 A lot has been written about what the Semantic Web is, but little has been said about the impact it will have. After a brief recap on what the Semantic... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3326 In this article I'll talk about business uses for Second Life (SL) ( http://www.secondlife.com/ ) and give some tips for working in SL. SL is a virtual... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3345 Federated search - also known as metasearch or a distributed information retrieval system - provides one portal for searching information from multiple... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3325 Click here for Part II of this article NB: This article is adapted from the FUMSI report, Asia-Pacific Research Resources , part of the Regional... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3334 Click here for Part I of this article NB: This article is adapted from the FUMSI report, Asia-Pacific Research Resources , part of the Regional... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3355 Ten years ago, searching the Web for competitive intelligence was a hit-or-miss affair. Although by then most quoted companies had websites, private... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3212 "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... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3199 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.... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3198 This two-part article is a step-by-step guide for those wishing to create new taxonomies for their business unit or client. It will outline the many... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3197 Evidence Based Medicine - EBM. It's a phrase much beloved by politicians. We're all increasingly familiar with it, but where did it come from, and how did... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3196 If you thought social networking was for the younger set à la MySpace , or for friends connecting for fun and pleasure on Facebook with its... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3129 The 2008 SLA (Special Libraries Association) Annual Conference in Seattle bought together more than 5,000 participants, exhibitors and speakers. Over the... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3127 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... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3126 This two-part article is a step-by-step guide for those wishing to create new taxonomies for their business unit, or client. It will outline the many... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3155 People have been licensing photographs almost since the inception of the medium in the nineteenth century. Victorian picture agencies like the London... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3125 When people ask me what I do, I sometimes say "I save people from embarrassment". I can't stop them from showing themselves up in the local karaoke bar,... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3091 Thousands of corporate intranets are seldom-used, impossibly complex beasts. In contrast, next-generation intranets are simple, social platforms that can... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3095 Miami is a young, optimistic and fast-expanding city. The Downtown area is full of cranes, building sites and condominium blocks rising up to the Florida... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3094 As I write this article at the beginning of the downturn, I realise how fortunate I am that my information department has not yet been affected by... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3093 While ‘Find' usually focuses on online searching strategies and sources, this article concentrates on a resource to use when, to quote FreePint's Robin... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2973 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,... Sat, 31 May 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2972 Today, nearly a million organisations worldwide are accredited to an ISO management system standard. The exponential growth in the number of accreditations... Sat, 31 May 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2971 It has been seven years since Marc Prensky launched the concept of digital natives (the post-www generations) and digital immigrants (everyone else!) on... Sat, 31 May 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2968 Entrepreneurs may be defined as individuals who perceive an opportunity and create and grow an organisation to pursue it. According to the Global... Sat, 31 May 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2854 Knowledge is a blend of experience, values, information in context, and insight that forms a basis on which to build new experiences and information. It is... Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2853 Information professionals are often seen as peripherally providing a service to an organisation rather than being an integral part of the management of... Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2924 The Library and Information Show (LIS), an annual event for the UK library and information community, took place over two days in April at the... Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2779 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... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2818 This article describes the journey the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Library has taken from being a very traditional learned society library to its... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2778 For many years the only time the word ‘environment' came up in a discussion about business, it was in terms of the ‘business environment' or the... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2775 In a previous issue of FUMSI, I discussed the essential processes of preparation required for effective vendor and contract negotiation. So let's look... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2771 One of the reasons I was able to quit my job and launch my research business back in 1991 was my background as a specialised librarian. While I did not... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2777 Legal research often conjures up images of assistants scurrying to find case law, related statutes, regulations to prove an argument, or an attorney... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2772 There isn't an information professional in the world these days who doesn't have to demonstrate that they add value. But media librarians - the folk who... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2780 As an independent information professional you are quite well versed (if not expert) in finding, using, synthesising and delivering information to your... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2776 The early days of the Internet saw great optimism as to the potential for the freeing up of information and consequent greater accountability of... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2773 If you're like me, your email inbox is full of offers for free webinars. Recently one caught my attention. It was called 'Finding People Information: Free... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2817 As any student of American government knows, the United States Constitution creates a system where power is distributed among three independent branches... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2720 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... Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2712 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... Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2744 The great promise of RSS feeds was that they would save us from information overload. However, when subscribing to more feeds every day is just a click... Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2710 Our changing information landscape opens up new options for librarians and info pros to transfer their skills to a myriad of nontraditional fields. Some of... Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2742 Google is still the behemoth of search engines, but there is a plethora of alternative search engines that provide features not readily available on... Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2692 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... Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2694 Successful contract and vendor management cuts costs, improves business performance and enhances vendor-client relationships. It wins the respect of... Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2672 Hard, objective, accurate, definitive, precise numbers are beguilingly appealing. Yet in reality numbers are often subjective, vague, provisional and... Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2693 Beyond the Internet: Successful Research Strategies by Barbara A. Chernow is to the study of the research process what The Elements of Style by... Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2673 We probably all have an idea of what a good researcher is capable of doing and what kind of skills that person possesses. We also know when we... Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2637 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.... Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2662 When a member of my team announced he was moving interstate a few years ago, I realised I was about to lose someone with four years of specialist product... Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2635 Are libraries threatened with extinction, or are they morphing into a universal hub of information and knowledge, an indispensable factor in the success of... Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2661 What do a publicly funded institution like the British Library and the competitive members of the Special Libraries Association have to offer each other in... Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2638 Research has been my passion and my job for many years. It's the daily challenges and uncertainty that keep me coming back time and time again. I've been... Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2614 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... Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2613 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... Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2612 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... Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2611 This year's Online Information conference and exhibition at Olympia (4-6 December 2007, Olympia, UK) attracted thousands of visitors, over 230 exhibitors... Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2610 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... Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2609 I would love to say that I set out on my independent consultancy career fully equipped with a 5-year strategic plan, divided into short-, medium- and... Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2607 Working as an independent worker can be a professionally liberating and exciting experience. You are more in control of your own destiny and there is an... Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2608 In the Land of Web 1.0, we would search by looking for a small box in the top corner of a website. The user would be expected to know a magical keyword... Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2606 The Web's current evolutionary phase, Web 2.0, highlights user- generated content. These days, anyone can publish anything, and everyone shares... Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2511 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... Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2510 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;... Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2512 In recent years, much progress has been made in the way organisations gain value from information audits. Now there is a range of experienced... Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2509 Over the last 12 months at the University of Brighton we have been setting up some new postgraduate awards in information management to complement our... Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2506 In the past few months, it's been hard to ignore the phenomenon of Facebook. This online social networking tool has even caught the attention of... Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2346 Online social networking provides you with a venue to connect with people whom you already know, grow your relationships and find new people connected to... Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2508 [Editor's note: A new report from the FUMSI Regional Research Series aims to sketch some of the background to the EU's development, point out the... Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2507 Conducting research in another language can be tricky, especially if you speak only your mother tongue. Being a native Danish speaker with knowledge of... Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2483 Gaining a competitive advantage presents an enormous challenge for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Usually they will have many competitors offering... Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2482 The last few months have seen established information companies increasingly offering free quality data. At the same time, changes in the way broker firms... Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2505 Humans are great at discovering new things, but not always so good at remembering how we found them. Since the first caveman discovered fire, the... Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2504 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... Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2501 [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... Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2503 One of the classic lines from Star Trek was when, on seeing new life on a strange planet, Dr McCoy turned to Captain Kirk and said in an ominous tone:... Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2502 Notwithstanding the hype, the endless newspaper articles, the sometimes breathless editorials, China is an economic phenomenon. For a large economy to grow... Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2497 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... Thu, 31 May 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2498 One could argue that today's global landscape hosts more risks to country, corporate and individual safety than ever before. Consider the war in Iraq, the... Thu, 31 May 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2500 Prior to SLA, Free Pint Limited ran a survey across our communities (particularly FreePint, ResourceShelf, DocuTicker and Jinfo) to get users' feedback on... Thu, 31 May 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2499 Every once in a while, I think, it's not a bad idea to venture outside your personal comfort zone. For me, that means getting away from the computer. I... Thu, 31 May 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2495 [The following article is based on a presentation given by Heather Carine to the Australian Law Librarians' Association (South Australian Branch) on 5 March... Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2494 Information architects do not appear to be big fans of gambling. At my lunch table at the eighth annual gathering of information architects in Las Vegas,... Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2496 The transition from Development 1.0 to Development 2.0 One interesting aspect - which is sometimes forgotten - behind O'Reilly Media's coining of... Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2493 Electronic media encompasses the relatively new areas of credit cards, smart cards and other forms of stored value or credit that are now becoming... Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2490 But who will benefit from EThOS? And why establish the service now? The context of a thesis: a university or college Global access to... Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2492 In 2001 I was asked to put a pool table into Prenax's converted industrial loft offices in North London. At this time, 'fun' was one of our three values... Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2491 Over the course of doing business, every organisation encounters the need to conduct product evaluations. Sometimes evaluations are no more complex than... Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2489 Introduction As access to the Internet becomes less expensive and more widely available, distance learning is becoming an increasingly efficient... Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2520 'It doesn't affect me.' 'If I ignore it, maybe it will go away.' 'I don't have time for it.' These are just a few of the claims that I have been... Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2521 There's something of a seismic shift occurring in the ownership structure of a couple of our best-known information companies. The news that Thomson... Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2487 Introduction The European Union (EU) marks its 50th anniversary in March 2007 . In this time it has... Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2488 Vertical Search is one of the 'hot' areas of the last couple of years. Not that it has dominated Google's overall most popular queries. Britney and Paris... Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2523 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... Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2522 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... Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2525 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2524 The web design industry is understandably excited about eye-tracking technology. Finally, technology that knows what the people who use your website are... Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2527 Google Answers is officially gone. So (my non-disclosure agreement notwithstanding) this seems a good opportunity to reflect on a few questions, such as:... Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2526 Holiday travelling is stressful enough with the shopping, visiting relatives and finding someone to water your plants while you're away. The added hassle... Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2529 In 2001, FreePint featured an article on the still-new concept of information architecture (IA) in "Information Architecture and web Usability Resources"... Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2528 Integrating libraries and computer services, often together with other service units, has been one of the most interesting developments in universities,... Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2531 Bloggers may not rule the world (yet) but they do wield surprising power. They can turn elections, expose scandal, and shift public thought. Blogging, and... Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2530 In July 2006, the American comedian Stephen Colbert defined 'wikiality' (a combination of the words 'Wikipedia' and 'reality') as 'truth by consensus'.... Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2534 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... Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2532 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... Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2533 Think for a minute: what did you buy yesterday? A newspaper? A tank of petrol? Online advertising space? A local area connection? If you're like most people... Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2535 Ink-smudged fingers and hanging chads may be local icons of election time, but their outcomes can reverberate around the world. November marks mid-term... Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2539 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2538 The global information industry has been a witness to phenomenal changes in recent times. Recent industry estimates peg the global information industry at... Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2542 The latest annual European Online Information Market survey from IRN Research values the European online market at... Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2541 [This article reflects key points in a presentation to be given by the authors at the Internet Librarian International conference in London, 16-17 October... Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2543 Mention project documentation and the usual set of documents aimed at keeping things on track come to mind: the project plan, initiation document, reports.... Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2540 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... Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2519 Information professionals deal with fewer borders than many other business people. Researchers often work for clients in different countries, and many... Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2544 Marcy Phelps, Denver, Colorado, USA -- As an independent information professional, it's easy to fall into the 'Lone Wolf Syndrome'. You become so... Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2548 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... Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2546 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... Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2545 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... Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2547 I have spent my career in large organisations, undertaking research for specialists. Being well informed is vital for specialists, and I have played a key... Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2549 Wikis, currently one of the biggest buzzwords in online publishing, helped solve a problem for my company, Ingenta. We needed to share information between... Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2551 Online technology has revolutionised how scholars communicate with each other. It is also changing how publishers do business. Those of us who rely on... Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2550 Anyone working in the information industry knows jobs are constantly changing to keep up with the technology. TFPL, Ltd., which provides recruitment,... Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2553 "Innovation -- the commercial exploitation of new or novel ideas -- occupies the ground somewhere between the scientific community and the business world.... Wed, 31 May 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2552 Government agencies, think tanks, commercial and non-profit organisations, and trade associations provide an incredibly rich and diverse collection of free... Wed, 31 May 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2557 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2565 The VIP publications, VIP and VIP Eye, are concerned with the business information industry - its products, its providers and its users <... Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2556 "Information about money has become almost as important as money itself" Walter Wriston, 1985. For those that are new to it, the world of financial... Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:00:00 -0700 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2566 You may have noticed, over the past few months, press and market commentary regarding the increased number (and value) of domestic and cross-border... Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2568 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2571 What exactly is a podcast? Is an MP3 file some form of audio file? Do I have to have an iPod to access these things? And for heaven's sake, what is this MP4... Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2570 Harold Geneen, the founder of MCI Inc., once said, "In the business world, everyone is paid in two ways: cash and experience. Take the experience first;... Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2569 As any researcher knows, web searching can sometimes produce a disorganised mass of results. Saving results in a format you can find and use later is more... Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:00:00 -0800 http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2572 What's in a word? Sometimes a word acquires so many meanings that it becomes difficult to use clearly. This happened to 'portal', and it may be... Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:00:00 -0800