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The people have spoken: The collective intelligence of social media to brainstorm a new project [ABSTRACT]
1st March 2011

Tapping into the collective intelligence that’s out there in social media is a great way to brainstorm when starting a new research project. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and blogs are particularly useful, as are social media search engines such as Social Mention and Whos Talkin. But you have to be prepared to invest time in building up relationships if you want to get the most out of these sites.

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SharePoint and the South Bank Centre: using analogies to sell a story [ABSTRACT]
1st 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.

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Information management lessons from "Austin Powers" [ABSTRACT]
1st March 2011

Using Austin Powers’ nemesis Dr Evil as an example when considering information management may, on the face of it, appear to be a bit far-fetched but Scott Brown shows the similarities between Dr Evil and upper management. And, from there, he gives a few lessons on how to deal with your executives and avoid being "incinerated!"

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Embedded Librarianship Part 2: A case study from Spain [ABSTRACT]
1st March 2011

Librarians have struggled hard to be recognised as a profession in Spain, despite LIS being a five-year degree, but progress is now being made thanks to the introduction of embedded librarianship in some universities. Using the skills they already have but applying them in a different environment is adding value and making librarians irreplaceable.

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