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Nontraditional Careers for Info Pros: Why Consider Alternatives? [ABSTRACT]
1st March 2008
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 us, however, may feel the curse of living in interesting times; after spending years working in traditional libraries and/or investing in an MLIS, we hesitate to open ourselves up to alternative possibilities.
Web 2.0 + Intranet: Connected Users [ABSTRACT]
1st March 2008
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 intranet manager. It combines the findings reported in an IBF research report into Web 2.0 use 'inside the corporate firewall' across large organisations, with examples of BT's use of Web 2.0 on their intranet; specifically discussion forums, blogs, RSS feeds and wikis.
Laughing at the CIO [ABSTRACT]
1st March 2008
Any book the uses the phrase "smack-down" in complete seriousness is okay by me. Bob Boiko's book Laughing at the CIO: A Parable and Prescription for IT Leadership succeeds in great part due to its frank and humourous approach. Touted as "the ultimate cure for executive infophobia" by fellow info guru Peter Morville, Laughing at the CIO offers pragmatic, attainable solutions for how to put the "I" back in "IT".
Life Beyond Google: Some of the Best of the Rest [ABSTRACT]
1st March 2008
Google is still the behemoth of search engines, but there is a plethora of alternative search engines that provide features not readily available on Google. They may not have Google's range of products and services but, after all, how many free unlimited-storage email services do you need?
RSS Feeds: Managing the Mechanism [ABSTRACT]
1st March 2008
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 away, we can all too easily become swamped by the very mechanism that was meant to help us.
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