• Conferences

    Posted on February 27th, 2009

    Written by Rebecca Jones

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    Harvard’s Tip: Focus on the Important, Not the Urgent

    For years Jane’s mantra has been “focus on the important, not the urgent.”  And my buddy is in good company! I receive Harvard Business Reviews’ “Management Tip of the Day” (most of which are superb — I highly recommend you subscribe to this — just file them until you get a chance in an airport [...]

  • Blog Posts

    Posted on February 20th, 2009

    Written by Jane Dysart

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    Here’s an article I wrote for EContent on the FASTForward ’09 conference.  And there’s lots more at the FASTForward Blog and the conference Twitter feed.

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    Posted on February 18th, 2009

    Written by Jane Dysart

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    Think Strategically Not Tactically

    Although this article was about enterprise infrastructure, the title “Slashed Budgets?  Think Strategically, not Tactically” resonated with me.  Rebecca and I work with many clients who have organizational and financial challenges.  We have found that it definitely makes a difference to think strategically about what you want to have in terms of a service or [...]

  • Conferences

    Posted on February 11th, 2009

    Written by Jane Dysart

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    Search is ….

    During the presentation of innovation awards at FASTForward ’09 there were some interesting comments about what search is.  Help me make a longer list by adding comments to this post! Search is shortening the distance between users & offerings all about information management and information enables business a high end productivity tool

  • Conferences

    Posted on February 11th, 2009

    Written by Jane Dysart

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    Search: Video Interviews & Twitter Feed

    So many wonderful interviews from FASTForward ’09 participants by Josh-Michele Ross in the form of videos.  Check out his coverage of analysts, researchers, CTOs & CEOs, authors, speakers and more.  And also the twitter feed from the conference.

  • Conferences

    Posted on February 10th, 2009

    Written by Jane Dysart

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    Grown Up Digital: Net Gen

    Don Tapscott, keynote at FastForward09, built on an his earlier books, Growing Up Digital, Wikinomics, and others as he talked about how a new generation is driving an age of engagement which aligns with the conference theme: Engage Your User.  He talked about his new book, Grown Up Digital, about how disagrees that the net [...]

  • Conferences

    Posted on February 10th, 2009

    Written by Jane Dysart

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    FastForward 2009

    The first FastForward conference since Microsoft purchased FAST Technology for 1.2 billion opened with lots of light an music and about 1,000 attendees from 29 countries.  It reflects a strong commitment, vision, and roadmap for search.  Today, Microsoft released information about new search products:  FAST Search for SharePoint which is the old FAST ESP tuned [...]

  • Conferences

    Posted on February 2nd, 2009

    Written by Jane Dysart

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    Net Initiatives for Tough Times: Digital Publishing, Preservation & Practices

    The call for speakers for Internet Librarian 2009 is online with a theme, Net Initiatives for Tough Times:  Digital Publishing, Preservation & Practices. AND, the opening keynote for the conference is Internet pioneer, Vint Cerf who is currently VP & Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. Most excitiing!