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15th April 2010
No.299
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Editorial
My Favourite Tipples
FreePint Bar
FUMSI Features
- Knowledge in the Round: Information Management in a 3-D World
- Presentation Tools: Beyond Powerpoint
VIP Features
- Opinions on creditworthiness and federated online publishing
- Recent postings to the LiveWire
- Recent postings to the Wire
Jinfo - Jobs and Events
Jobs in Information:
- Business Intelligence Researcher
- Knowledge Management Strategist
- Territory Manager, Business Development
- Research Manager
- more ...
Events in Information:
- Essential skills for LIS staff
- EPublishing Innovation Forum
- ICI-1 Competitive Intelligence Basics Workshop
- SLA's Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO 2010
Highlights from DocuTicker
- The EU Role in Global Health
- How are Shorts Informed? Short Sellers, News, and Information Processing
Highlights from ResourceShelf
- Facts for Features from the U.S. Census Bureau
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By Robin Neidorf
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By Susan Farrell
As a web professional I find it hard to search websites without being super-critical about them. It's an annoying habit both for me and those around me (akin to pointing out when apostrophes are missing from menus!), but there are some websites which have made their way onto my list of those that are good and useful.
- Jakob Nielsen is THE usability guru so his website is a must for web professionals. His Alertbox keeps us up-to-date with the latest news but, if you are looking for a bit of nostalgia, you can also use it to go back as far as 1995 and read about the issues of the time. It makes you realise how far the web has come.
- I've recently discovered a new group of superheros - The Webcredibles - who will 'save your website from a deathly user experience'! It is full of great, free advice on user research and user-centric design. The comic strips featuring Dr Webcredible and Webcrawler are a fun way of putting across some serious points.
- James Robertson's StepTwo website is another fount of knowledge, particularly for those managing intranets. It lists a range of resources available to help with various aspects of intranets and the blog (Column Two) is great for finding out about hot topics.
- The BBC's website is the standard that many web professionals aspire to...if only we had the same budget! It never ceases to amaze me how they manage to make it easy to find such a wealth of information. So, if I'm looking for the best way to do something, I will consult the BBC website and then hope I can replicate it using very little money.
- I need to be able to send large files to colleagues and clients quickly and I have found that mailbigfile.com is not only an easy URL to remember, it is also the location of a free, fast service for files up to 200Mb. You can also send larger files for a relatively small cost.
Susan is a web professional with a background in information science. Her career has spanned everything from abstracting and editing to website development and content management system implementations.
She spent the last few years as Head of Web and Portal Services at King's College London, and now she specialises in maximising the effectiveness of web presence. Susan gained a BSc in Biology from Durham University many years ago, and an MSc in Information Science from Sheffield University almost as long ago, and certainly long before the web was even dreamed about!
Susan can be reached at susan.farrell@freepint.com.
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Knowledge in the Round: Information Management in a 3-D World
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In a digital world, a single- or two-dimensional approach to information classification is increasingly out of step. Using the precepts of Q6 and Quantum Semantics, John O'Gorman describes a multi-dimensional approach that transforms flat metadata and keywords into rich information assets.
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Presentation Tools: Beyond Powerpoint
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In an age where an ability to produce a compelling slide presentation can be a means of improving job stability or garnering attention for an underappreciated project or department, Powerpoint skills can be critical. But the Microsoft presentation software isn't the only game in town, as Martin Belam explains in this look at paid and free alternatives.
WHAT'S INSIDE: 'You can upload images for your presentation from your computer, or do as Google suggests, and "try adding images from a website by dragging them onto the slide". It is a nifty bit of functionality - but it maybe ought to come with a warning about copyright theft!'
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Give credit where it's due is Perrin Kerravala's two-handled advice as she both acknowledges Experian's market leadership in the field of United Kingdom business credit reporting and assesses its effectiveness in helping users understand the likelihood of a business's future success or failure.
Reviewing Experian's business-to-business information platform, e-Series business, she rates it not only essential for financial services businesses conducting due diligence and risk assessment, but also invaluable for librarians doing research on UK private companies. Perrin likes its depth of detail and easy-to-use interface - but criticises its extremely limited exporting capabilities to other applications and the absence of automatic 'push' alerting.
Making sense of a plethora of federated information sources at low cost is the claim made for InfoDesk Inc's InfoViewer, which enables users to personalise, view, search, publish and export real-time information extracted from any electronic source to which they have access.
Subjecting these claims to detailed testing, Jonathan Gordon-Till finds that content filtered through InfoViewer can be delivered through a variety of publishing options including to Blackberrys. He's impressed by its multimedia capabilities and ability to create current awareness newsletters simply but effectively - but notes that users can't create or edit their own templates and that InfoDesk itself has to do the configuration of InfoViewer with source providers.
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The 3rd annual E-Publishing Innovation Forum returns with the aim of confronting the issues that threaten the Publishing Industry.
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Date: 25-26 May 2010
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Date: 9-10 Sep 2010
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A look back at what the FreePint Newsletter covered at this time in previous years:
- FreePint No. 275, 16th April 2009 "Filling in the Gaps: Company Intelligence Beyond the Corporate Website" and "Information Architecture: Why SharePoint 2007 Needs It"
- FreePint No. 251, 24th April 2008 "UK Government Information on the Internet" and "Develop Your Independent Business: Using Information Strategically"
- FreePint No. 228, 19th April 2007 "Product Evaluations: Completing a Needs Assessment" and "Tough Love: Excelling at Customer Service Is Not Just One Big Happy-Clappy Hugfest"
- FreePint No. 204, 13th April 2006 "Thriving on change: The right stuff for resilience in an information career" and "European Unions: what you need to know about international mergers and acquisitions"
- FreePint No. 180, 7th April 2005 "Quality assuring health information resources" and "Trends in business information, provision and use"
- FreePint No. 158, 15th April 2004 "Searching for success: an update on search engine developments" and "Time Management"
- FreePint No. 135, 17th April 2003 "Radio on the Internet" and "Scenario Planning"
- FreePint No. 110, 18th April 2002 "A World of Resources Awaits You in China" and "Customer Satisfaction - do you know what they think of your information service?"
- FreePint No. 85, 12th April 2001 "Getting Connected in a Rural Area" and "Streaming Media and Broadband Sites"
- FreePint No. 60, 13th April 2000 "Wedding Sources on the Web" and "Knowledge Management"
- FreePint No. 36, 15th April 1999 "Cataloging the Internet: The Dublin Core" and "Idiots' guide to chemistry information resources on the Web"
- FreePint No. 12, 16th April 1998 "The Duffers Guide to 56K Modems!" and "Sources of information on science policy and popular science topics"
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