Just reading the May issue of Business 2.0, yes in print, but here it is online, Do This, Get Rich. One of the ideas B2.0 dreamed up was a startup company they called Spotcaster. Elevator pitch: “This start-up creates a search engine for podcasts and other digitally distributed recordings.”Target Market: “There are an estimated 50 [...]
Dave Pollard, former Chief Knowledge Officer at Ernst & Young has a great blog about all things related to new technologies, new economies, new philosophies, new socities, new politics, and new creations. Check out his blog taxonomy. Since D&J does a lot of planning I particularly like his look at environmental scanning — he calls [...]
It is so refreshing to hear/see the excitement of one person praising another, especially when they are sharing knowledge. Couple of cool exampeles. A wonderful note from the Lipstick Librarian, Linda Absher, about Blake Carver, who started the collaborative weblog, LISNews, in 1999 to share knowledge about librarian and information sceince news. Today is it [...]
and Resourceshelf.com, make sure you’re attending his talk about “What’s New & Cool on the Web” in Toronto on Thursday May 12th.
Report from Juanita Richardson, Consultant & Licensing Managment, CEDROM-SNi, who was at the Information Highways 2005 inToronto last week produced by The eContent Institute for the Canadian information industry with the common themes of content and technology. In his keynote on Day 1, Michael O’Neil, Managing Director, IDC Canada, spoke to the “push for productivity” [...]
Deborah Palmer, Librarian at Ministry of Natural Resources, gave me an update on the workshop, “Document Imaging: What You Need to Know Before You Take the Plunge,” given by Kofax Image Products Company. Thanks Deborah; it’s always impossible to get to all the sessions you want to hear. Here’s her summary: The workshop introduced the [...]