Enterprise Search: Rethinking it in a Web 2.0 World
1st November 2007

In the Land of Web 1.0, we would search by looking for a small box in the top corner of a website. The user would be expected to know a magical keyword or some other bit of information that would unlock the door to a cascade of results ready to be winnowed by hand into piles of carefully hoarded treasure. Publishing to the Web was controlled by a few individuals called 'webmasters' and data was carefully guarded behind moats and firewalls in castles called database stores. Search engines were composed of spiders that crawled the Web to find pages rendered in HTML, which made them understandable only to advanced human intellect and not re-use friendly. Search had to 'stink', which always seemed a bit unsanitary.

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Practice What You Preach: Building and Gaining Credibility with Clients
1st November 2007

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Charting a New Course: The Future of Information Work
30th September 2007

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Your Online Identity: Key to Marketing and Being Found
30th September 2007

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Journal Lifecycle: Keeping Track of Periodicals
30th September 2007

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FUMSI Report Excerpt: Preparing and planning an audit
30th September 2007

In recent years, much progress has been made in the way organisations gain value from information audits. Now there is a range of experienced practitioners and consultants to draw upon.

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Survival Guide: Online Social Networking
31st August 2007

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Social Tools for Business Use: Messages from a Web 2.0 Conference
31st August 2007

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Doing Research in a Foreign Language Market: Tips and Techniques
31st August 2007

Conducting research in another language can be tricky, especially if you speak only your mother tongue. Being a native Danish speaker with knowledge of English, French, German and Portuguese, I have the advantage of understanding written information in Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian. Still, I often struggle when it comes to specialised topics in which I may only know the business terms in either Danish or English. This article outlines some of the lessons I have learned from researching in foreign language markets.

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FUMSI Report: European Research Resources
31st August 2007

Researching Europe can be undertaken on several levels. Starting with the national, one finds significant government, mass media and academic sources. The UK perspective to this report should therefore be seen as representative of a pattern that can be found to a greater or lesser extent throughout all of the EU Member States, once an entry point for a country has been found.

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