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Real-Time Monitoring: Tools and Trends to Watch [ABSTRACT]
8th June 2010

The growth in real-time data has led to new ways to manipulate, synthesise and distil information very quickly. From tools for disease surveillance to heat maps for tracking trends in the stock market, the number of ways for information professionals to tap into this data is increasing with all the major players vying for position in this market.

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Part 1: 'Retreading', not Reinventing, the Wheel: How info pros repurpose content for increased efficiency and visibility [ABSTRACT]
8th June 2010

Working efficiently and adding value are core skills for information professionals in these cash-strapped times, so Scott Brown's tips on repurposing, reusing and generally recycling information provide some very useful ways of honing our skills.

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From Sumo to Samurai: getting your taxonomies fighting fit: Part 1 [ABSTRACT]
8th June 2010

Hierarchical taxonomies seem to dominate our lives because they are supported by most of the tools we use daily, from Windows Explorer to content management systems. But are they the best way of organising and finding our digital documents? In the first part of a two part series, Kate Simpson demonstrates the many benefits of using facets.

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The social intranet fires-up knowledge sharing [ABSTRACT]
8th June 2010

The Internet's poor cousin, the corporate intranet, has come of age because of the rise in the use of social media. With the introduction of Intranet 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, discussion forums etc, the humble intranet has become a powerful tool for employee collaboration and knowledge management.

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