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Six strategies for improving information management compliance
6th September 2012

As information technology continues to become increasingly embedded in our jobs, organisations will have exponentially more challenges around information compliance. Although individual industries have unique regulations, technologies and challenges, fundamentally, many of the compliance requirements are common. This allows information managers across multiple industries to address compliance challenges in a standard, systematic way. Edsel David looks at six strategies to begin to address these challenges.

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Digging Deeper into Staff Size
5th September 2012

Following high-level discussion of staff sizes for information services and configuration of those services, we take a closer look at the data from 20 interviews and analyse them in terms of average and median staff sizes, average and median numbers of supported staff, and FTEs in information services as a percentage of supported staff. A number of distinctions by tiers emerge as well as industry differences.

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"Just a few moments of electronic idiocy"
4th September 2012

When is it safe to rely on big data and automated analytics, and when should you trust to your insights? Hopefully we can learn a lesson from Knight Capital, which admitted that it had lost millions at the start of just one day’s trading because new software had sent into the market a number of erroneous orders.

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Putting information on the map
3rd September 2012

According to an article in Technology Review earlier this year, we are very much in the midst of the “indoor positioning era”. GPS has permeated its way in into our day-to-day lives by allowing us to effectively navigate and add value to the outside physical space. It was inevitable that at some point someone would ask the question: why can’t we do the same with indoor space?

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Mendeley's app platform - a vindication of open access data?
31st August 2012

Mendeley, the self-styled “Wikipedia for academic data” also described as “science’s iTunes”, has recently reached a milestone, according to the company’s blog. The crowd-sourced database, containing around 65 million scientific papers, was set up to liberate research from behind entrenched paywalls. Over 100 million queries per month now come from 240 different apps, with a sharp increase between January and July this year.

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Winning the social media Olympics
30th August 2012

With the Olympic Games just finished and the Paralympics just starting, it would seem remiss to not take a look at the big winners and losers at what are being described as the first social media Olympics. So which social media tools won gold, silver and bronze at London 2012, and what were some of the lessons learnt?

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Paywalls and intelligence gathering
29th August 2012

Paywalls have implications for those involved in press monitoring and intelligence gathering. 10 years ago it was possible for users to search comprehensively across content using a single third-party service, but what has changed?

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Knowledge Graph extends outside the US, with regional variations
28th August 2012

The US launch of Google’s Knowledge Graph in May this year was hailed as a significant step towards the semantic web, and Google searchers elsewhere were looking forward to experiencing this new tool. Now those in other English-speaking countries can do so.

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BYOD security -- it's not all high tech solutions
27th August 2012

The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement in the workplace continues to gather momentum, while at the same time presenting new security challenges. It also presents an opportunity for information professionals carving out a risk and security role for themselves in their organisations.

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A Step Too Far with Collaboration
23rd August 2012

Most of what is written about collaboration is positive: Collaboration within an organisation can break down silos and connect people who might otherwise never work together. It can also increase productivity and potentially save organisations money. But collaboration has many hidden dangers and barriers to implementation, which is why so many potential collaborators remain skeptical or get frustrated. Learn about the dangers and how you can overcome them.

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