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5th November 2009
No.289
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Editorial
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By Robin Neidorf
 In
the world of information, there's a constant tension between
spreading information around and locking it down. Info pros have a
natural inclination towards access - their training is all about
helping others find and access the information that will enable them
to be more effective. But controlling access is equally important.
Whether for compliance, privacy, or counter-intelligence, restricting
access is a critical component of information risk
management.
Current FUMSI articles provide practical insight
on both sides of this tension. Margaret McKay offers up an article on
JISC's
efforts to make educational materials more inclusive and
accessible.
The
original impetus for inclusion grew out of the need to accommodate
different learning abilities, but a whole range of user needs benefit
from JISC's initiatives.
 On the other end of the spectrum lies
Karen Lawrence Oqvist's article on how
to prevent information leakages
from
your organisation.
Her article will be part of this month's FUMSI Report: Folio on
Information Security -- take a minute to complete
the brief
survey on information security policies and practices at
your organisation,
and
receive
a free copy of the report.
How information is shared or
controlled is also a key theme in FreePint's
Copyright Research Project.
Phase 1 survey results are coming in, and many respondents report
their concern over inadvertent sharing of licensed content outside
the terms of use. So far, respondents report relying primarily on
employee training (one-time and ongoing) over technological tools to
help them control usage. Making sure all
employees
understand the risks is among their top priorities.
But
another reported priority is equally telling: Expanding access to
content. Broader licensing reduces the risks associated with misuse,
and at the same time fulfills that underlying need of information
professionals: get the content in the hands of as many users as
possible.
There's still time to participate in the Phase 1
survey, so if you manage copyrighted resources for your department or
organisation, please
complete the survey.
Phase 2 will survey end users about their behaviours, so please also
register for notification to participate.
If
you want to learn more about this project -- and about the rest of
FreePint's plans for research, reports, and publications in 2010 --
there's no better time or place than at our stand, No.122, at Online
Information 2009 in London, 1 - 3 December.
As a sponsor of FreePint's Copyright Research Project, Dialog will
be hosting a briefing on the project at their stand on Thursday. I'll
be giving a talk based on the results of VIP's 'News Needs and
Preferences' survey, discussing the balance between free and fee in
today's content portfolios on Wednesday. Complete
our RSVP form to let
us know you'll be there,
and we'll keep you informed.
Robin Neidorf
General Manager
FreePint
P.S.
This month's VIP will feature our in-depth comparative review of news
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My Favourite Tipples
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By Lou Taylor
The web enables all of us to share stories and be 'journalists' for free! At a time when traditional print journalism is increasingly moving towards online news content, my favourite blogs are those with a focus on online media, web technologies and knowledge management.
- One man and his blog -- a media blog by Adam Tinworth, who comments on the power of Twitter for freedom of speech: After a court order prevented the Guardian reporting on a Parliamentary question, editor in chief Alan Rusbridger took matters to Twitter. Tweeters pieced the story together about Trafigura (oil trader accused of dumping toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, Africa) and the injunction was withdrawn. Read about the power of Twitter in Tinworth's blog entry, 'The Day Twitter Destroyed a Gagging Order'.
- BITS -- 'Business, Innovation, Technology, Society' (Bits) blog by the New York Times, providing all the latest news and analysis on the technology industry and how the internet changes the way we live and work.
- Karen Blakeman's business information blog -- Karen Blakeman shares helpful tips and tricks on search tools, web technologies and resources for business information.
- Andy Dale's SharePoint blog -- Andy Dale shares useful insight, analysis and tips on all things SharePoint, in an easy to read style.
- Online journalism blog -- provides comment and analysis on online media developments, with web tips and web news (a recent post provides helpful information for bloggers on a variety of plugins, widgets, and web analytics, etc) by an international team.
Lou Taylor is an experienced knowledge and information management (KIM) professional, specialising in organisational intranets (architecture, classification, usability, content, writing and editing). She also has a solid academic grounding in information (an MSc in Knowledge & Information Management with merit awarded by London Metropolitan University and a General Journalism Diploma with distinction awarded by the London School of Journalism). Lou blogs at http://www.loutaylor.org
You can receive Tipples via Twitter at: <http://www.twitter.com/myfavtipples>
Would you like to add your Favourite Tipples suggestions for the FreePint Newsletter or write an article for FUMSI (Find, Use, Manage or Share Information?).
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FUMSI Features
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 FUMSI publishes articles, tools, and a monthly magazine, to give you practical help with information skills.
Visit http://www.fumsi.com/
However you Find, Use, Manage or Share Information, you'll find something in FUMSI to help.
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We add new articles to the FUMSI database in each practice area every month, which are free to read, browse, email, print or save. Here are the most recent additions:
JISC: Applications for Inclusion
 By Margaret McKay
FUMSI: Use
Making information accessible to all users should be a priority for all information professionals, but it's often difficult to know where to start. Margaret McKay describes JISC's free resources and initiatives in this arena, which should make a useful starting point.
WHAT'S INSIDE: 'Nowadays with equalities legislation firmly in place, providing accessible resources should not belong solely to support specialists any more than accessibility or inclusion should belong exclusively to people with a disability.'
Read, print, save or forward this article now »
Get to Know Your Plumbing: Protecting Your Organisation From Leaking 'Soft Information'
 By Karen Lawrence Oqvist
FUMSI: Share
These days organisations can run themselves ragged protecting their internal information assets, but it's of little comfort when 'soft' information - information that may have little inherent value, but yield knowledge when linked up with hard information by competitors - is so easily shared by employees within their social networks outside the workplace. Karen Lawrence Oqvist provides pointers for organisations to turn those potential intelligence risks into receptors by providing a forum in which employees can share and be heard within the workplace.
WHAT'S INSIDE: 'Your employees... will instead congregate, group and link with other subject matter experts from other organisations in virtual spaces somewhere in cyberspace where they can be heard and where their opinion counts. Here they will build their online reputation by communicating, linking and collaborating outside of the confines of the organization'
Read, print, save or forward this article now »
FUMSI - Forthcoming Topics
- Becoming a Taxonomist
- RSS Feeds and Yahoo Pipes
- Using Mashups in Libraries
- Resources for Automotive Industry Research
If you have a suggestion for an article topic, or would like to write, then please contact <support@freepint.com> or read the notes for authors at
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Are your copyright policies and practices protecting you? Are you
sure?
Participate in FreePint's Copyright Research Study to gain insight
into:
- How well your organisation manages copyright
- How the industry can
improve tools, technologies and training to maintain compliance.
Complete the phase 1 survey now: http://digbig.com/5bamnd
More information on this project »
This project is sponsored by Dialog, Dow Jones and the Financial Times.
Still accepting responses: VIP's News Needs and Preferences Survey: http://digbig.com/5bamnf.
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Taxonomies and Tagging
Learn from experienced info architects
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VIP Features
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VIP publishes in-depth, unbiased reviews of business information products. If you purchase or use premium information resources, make VIP part of your professional reading every month »
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Capital IQ provides business research and analysis covering some 58,000 public companies and about 1.5 million private companies worldwide, and it claims more than 4,000 clients including all major investment banks. Much of the data it provides is available elsewhere, so its strength lies in the amount of data it aggregates and the level of analysis it permits - often right back to the original filing. Diana Nutting's in-depth report demonstrates the appeal of its built-in analytical tools, with their ability
to drill deeply into the results and provide an audit trail. However, she also reports finding it easy to get lost in the system while searching.
Plenty
of products monitor internet resources to bring back market and
competitive intelligence, but Digimind 7 claims to go one step further
by surfacing results that answer the 'so what?' question. Testing that claim
in his detailed product review, Jonathan Gordon-Till finds that users
can not only incorporate their own internal project files, field data
and annotated information into the product's internet findings but
also generate customised internal newsletters. Its
interface is simple to use, flexible and largely intuitive, he finds -- but its
many functions and components do require a lot of learning.
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On VIP LiveWire recently...
- Electronic records are twice as likely to be unmanaged as paper records, according to a survey from AIIM, the global enterprise content management association, and only 56% of organisations have a procedure for placing a freeze on electronic records in the event of pending litigation. Enterprises that are likely to face regular legal actions need a simple set of practices to follow in any e-discovery process, adds the IT consultant Gartner -- and those that do fully document their search processes can expect to save 25% on their collection processes...
Read the full story at: http://www.vivavip.com/go/e25155
- Google and print newspapers have been at loggerheads for some time, with publishers accusing it and its ilk of contributing towards the demise of the industry -- but now Google appears to be throwing them a lifeline in the form of an experimental service called Fast Flip. It allows readers to quickly read through content, like flicking through a magazine, before deciding which article to read in full; Google believes that this fast reading experience will lead users to click through to more publishers, thereby providing them with more revenue through contextually relevant ads...
Read the full story at: http://www.vivavip.com/go/e24414
- Google is also causing alarm in some brand management circles with the introduction of its SideWiki browser application, which allows users to comment on any website even if the site doesn't actually accommodate comments. To find out if this or social networking comment generally matters to your brand, you could try LexisNexis Analytics' influencer index, which uses qualitative and quantitative measures to determine the importance of a social media source to a user, taking into account its market share and the extent to which it is 'embedded' into a community...
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- Inderscience Publishers (http://www.inderscience.com) is pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management...
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Jinfo - Jobs and Events in Information
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Jinfo Events:
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- Creating a Brand Identity
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Organiser: Dialog
Date: 10th Dec 2009
Country: Online/webinar
- Online Information 2009
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Organiser: Incisive Media
Date: 1-3 Dec 2009
Country: United Kingdom
- Taxonomy Boot Camp
Technologies and practices on taxonomies; case studies; hands-on workshops
Organiser: Information Today
Date: 19th Nov - 20th Nov 2009
Country: United States
- KMWorld
Resetting the Enterprise: Focusing on People, Talent & knowledge: 2-day knowledge management conference
Organiser: Information Today
Date: 17th Nov - 19th Nov 2009
Country: United States
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A look back at what the FreePint Newsletter covered at this time in previous years:
- FreePint No. 264, 6th November 2008 "Creating User Centred Taxonomies" and "Asia Pacific Region: Consumer Markets and Industries: Part 1"
- FreePint No. 241, 8th November 2007 "Methodology Mixer: Professional and Business Development for the Independent Worker" and "Global Collaborative Search: Watch This Space"
- FreePint No. 217, 9th November 2006 "Internet Librarian International: Impressions from a First-Time Attendee" and "Election Cycles Primer: How and When People Come to Office"
- FreePint No. 194, 10th November 2005 "VoIP: Threat or Opportunity to the Market Research Industry?" and "Interview with Steve Borley, winner of the SLA Europe Information Professional Award"
- FreePint No. 171, 11th November 2004 "How to Improve your Business Writing" and "Information Auditing: Key Concepts and How To Get Started"
- FreePint No. 148, 6th November 2003 "Records Management, the Aunt Sally of your business!" and "Getting UK Immigration Information and Advice"
- FreePint No. 124, 31st October 2002 "Job Hunting Resources On The Web" and "What Does Well On The Web - A Personal View"
- FreePint No. 99, 1st November 2001 "Web Sources for Climate Change and Emissions Trading" and "Marketing Library and Information Services"
- FreePint No. 74, 2nd November 2000 "Web Sources for Central and Eastern Europe" and "Portals for business information on the Internet"
- FreePint No. 49, 4th November 1999 "Key UK Library and Information Science Information Resources" and "Affiliate and Associate Programs"
- FreePint No. 25, 29th October 1998 "Delivered to your Desktop" and "Making it part of your life"
- FreePint No. 1, 6th November 1997 "Back to Searching Basics" and "Major Sources of Business Information on the Internet"
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