Mobile, social and heading for the clouds!
16th February 2012

We’re living in a highly connected world with information coming at us from all directions. The big questions for me as an information professional are: how to filter it, how to make sense of it and what to do with it? In short, how to manage it.

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Scientific research news for non-scientists
16th February 2012

Covering science and technology, society and culture, health and medicine, and earth and environment, Futurity aggregates research news and presents it in an appealing lay person-friendly tone. Articles highlight recent scientific discoveries with most of the news articles linking to the original published study.

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Add news to workflow: aggregation moves up a gear
14th February 2012

Information professionals have been understandably sceptical about using news aggregation services for their research. After all, despite being able to access news almost in real-time, content can be unreliable and results may be unrelated to the initial enquiry.

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Citation Management + Current Awareness = Bibliogo
14th February 2012

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Sharing information - A VIP Editorial
14th February 2012

Effective information and knowledge sharing are crucial aspects of both personal and organisational life. Social media tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have become indispensable parts of everyday life, and in doing so have brought about a revolution in personal sharing and exchange of knowledge and information.

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paidContent joins GigaOM - watch out Techcrunch
13th February 2012

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Building a rapport with LinkedIn
13th February 2012

Rumours had been circulating for a while that LinkedIn, the most popular professional social network in the world, was planning to purchase Rapportive a browser plugin for Gmail. Now it would appear that the deal has been done and LinkedIn has acquired Rapportive for a sum believed to be between $10 and $15 million.

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KM and organisational change: M&A and onboarding
13th February 2012

Onboarding a new business throws up all sorts of knowledge and information management issues. Staff from the new business will bring a whole set of information with them in a range of formats. Some of this will be intellectual property bought as an asset and could include documents on shared and hard drives, intranet or webpages, databases and subject matter experts.

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Pics and stones may break my bones
12th February 2012

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Agile strategy and development
10th February 2012

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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