Information Today’s new conference on social networking & collaboration inside the enterprise has an exciting program planned for New York Hilton, September 27-8. Experts and practitioners discuss how to put collaboration tools to work in a business environment and turn them into strategic assets that can contribute to increased productivity. Hear noted authors, researchers and [...]
My good friend and colleague, Stephen Abram, VP, Innovation for Sirsi, travels and speaks to more people in the information and knowledge communities than anyone I know. He is a voracious reader, a lighthouse thinker, a prolific writer and speaker. Check out his articles, talks, and other resources or simply link to it from Abrams [...]
Can you believe it? It’s time to start thinking about Computers in Libraries, March 22-24, 2006 in Washington, DC. The theme is Managing Digital: Innovations, Initiatives & Insights. We now live, work and play digitally. Some of our key resources are created digitally while others, including physical libraries, books and, most importantly, people are not [...]
One of my many blog mentors, Steven Cohen, LibraryStuff.net, and I were discussing “about this site” pages the other day and he sent me a great example from Amanda Etches-Johnson’s Blogwithoutalibrary.And it includes a link to a long list of libraries with blogs. Fantastic! Thanks.
Ernie Ingles, Vice-Provost (Learning Services) & Chief Librarian, University of Alberta, and founder of the Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute, talked at an Education Institute teleconference this afternoon about “Key Practices in Developing Managers & Leaders“. He referred to himself as one othe individuals who has been toiling in the “bibliographic vineyards” for quite a [...]
Steve Arnold closed the first day of the Enterprise Search Summit with a look at the search landscape with references to his book, The Enterprise Search Report. He emphasized that search needs more than a box, and pointed to a great page powered by Endeca. He talked about clustering technology — and mentioned Vivisimo and [...]
Robert Joachim, Information Systems Engineer, MITRE gave a meaty presentation about intranet search at his organization including the different software and approaches they have taken. He talked about how search at MITRE has evoled with using the Google Search Appliance. Karin Schneider of Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals talked about their challenges, their use of federated [...]
One of the best supplier talks ever! Short, snappy & full of content. Just heard Lee Phillips, Fast Search Technology, give a 10 minute presentation, Search in the FAST Lane, at Information Today’s Enterprise Search Summit in NYC. He talked about their platform oriented program for enterprise search and the fact that enterprise search platform [...]
Who would have thought of comparing finding information with bovine examples?Lou Rosenfeld asked yesterday, “Why is there a beef chart providing so much information on beef cuts and not one for areas in our enterprises?” He opened Information Today’s Enterprise Search Summit in NYC, a 2 day event with great speakers and top search software [...]
Check out the front page of the Ontario Library Association web site for two workshops being produced by the Education Institute and being held in Toronto on Saturday June 4th An Interactive Learning ForumDriving Performance for Increased SuccessREBECCA JONES, Dysart & Jones AssociatesSTEPHEN ABRAM, Vice-President for Innovation, Sirsi CorporationDONNA SCHEEDER, Director, Law Library, Library of [...]