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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Compliance - it's not just financial
10th February 2012

Businesses are more burdened with regulation than ever before, according to a new report. The bulk of the current rules may be financial but, if we’re reading the runes correctly, it looks as if privacy regulation is catching up fast.

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Managing information during a period of organisational change
9th February 2012

One of the common mistakes to make when designing a KM programme is to make the assumption that your organisation will not restructure in the near future. The reality is that most organisations are in a state of almost constant change, particularly during tough economic conditions. This can have a serious impact on information management. Organisational restructures need to be reflected in URLs, taxonomies, file structures, metadata and content.

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An unconference approach can revitalise meetings and training
9th February 2012

For the past few years, unconferences have been gaining traction in everything from business to higher education. However unconferences can teach us more than how to hold a better, more relevant conference. They can also teach us how to run better, more relevant companies and organisations.

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