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Editorial
By Robin Neidorf
In
the world of information, there's a constant tension between
spreading information around and locking it down. Info pros have a
natural inclination towards access - their training is all about
helping others find and access the information that will enable them
to be more effective. But controlling access is equally important.
Whether for compliance, privacy, or counter-intelligence, restricting
access is a critical component of information risk
management.
Current FUMSI articles provide practical insight
on both sides of this tension. Margaret McKay offers up an article on
JISC's
efforts to make educational materials more inclusive and
accessible.
The
original impetus for inclusion grew out of the need to accommodate
different learning abilities, but a whole range of user needs benefit
from JISC's initiatives.
On the other end of the spectrum lies
Karen Lawrence Oqvist's article on how
to prevent information leakages
from
your organisation.
Her article will be part of this month's FUMSI Report: Folio on
Information Security -- take a minute to complete
the brief
survey on information security policies and practices at
your organisation,
and
receive
a free copy of the report.
How information is shared or
controlled is also a key theme in FreePint's
Copyright Research Project.
Phase 1 survey results are coming in, and many respondents report
their concern over inadvertent sharing of licensed content outside
the terms of use. So far, respondents report relying primarily on
employee training (one-time and ongoing) over technological tools to
help them control usage. Making sure all
employees
understand the risks is among their top priorities.
But
another reported priority is equally telling: Expanding access to
content. Broader licensing reduces the risks associated with misuse,
and at the same time fulfills that underlying need of information
professionals: get the content in the hands of as many users as
possible.
If
you want to learn more about this project -- and about the rest of
FreePint's plans for research, reports, and publications in 2010 --
there's no better time or place than at our stand, No.122, at Online
Information 2009 in London, 1 - 3 December.
As a sponsor of FreePint's Copyright Research Project, Dialog will
be hosting a briefing on the project at their stand on Thursday. I'll
be giving a talk based on the results of VIP's 'News Needs and
Preferences' survey, discussing the balance between free and fee in
today's content portfolios on Wednesday. Complete
our RSVP form to let
us know you'll be there,
and we'll keep you informed.
Robin Neidorf
General Manager
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My Favourite Tipples
By Lou Taylor
The web enables all of us to share stories and be 'journalists' for free! At a time when traditional print journalism is increasingly moving towards online news content, my favourite blogs are those with a focus on online media, web technologies and knowledge management.
One man and his blog -- a media blog by Adam Tinworth, who comments on the power of Twitter for freedom of speech: After a court order prevented the Guardian reporting on a Parliamentary question, editor in chief Alan Rusbridger took matters to Twitter. Tweeters pieced the story together about Trafigura (oil trader accused of dumping toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, Africa) and the injunction was withdrawn. Read about the power of Twitter in Tinworth's blog entry, 'The Day Twitter Destroyed a Gagging Order'.
BITS -- 'Business, Innovation, Technology, Society' (Bits) blog by the New York Times, providing all the latest news and analysis on the technology industry and how the internet changes the way we live and work.
Andy Dale's SharePoint blog -- Andy Dale shares useful insight, analysis and tips on all things SharePoint, in an easy to read style.
Online journalism blog -- provides comment and analysis on online media developments, with web tips and web news (a recent post provides helpful information for bloggers on a variety of plugins, widgets, and web analytics, etc) by an international team.
Lou Taylor is an experienced knowledge and information management (KIM) professional, specialising in organisational intranets (architecture, classification, usability, content, writing and editing). She also has a solid academic grounding in information (an MSc in Knowledge & Information Management with merit awarded by London Metropolitan University and a General Journalism Diploma with distinction awarded by the London School of Journalism). Lou blogs at http://www.loutaylor.org
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Bar users turn to each other for answers to their tricky research questions. Every type of business needs information of some kind, and the variety of needs reflects the broad range of resources we need to have to hand.
A non-British researcher is looking for something comparable to a US resource for public records and background checks. So far the advice is to piece the needed information together from different resources. Add your suggestions to the mix.
Our editors and Bar users have shared some of their choice online resources in period Tipples. Check them out suggestions from Marcy Phelps, Roddy MacLeod and Joanna Ptolomey, and consider submitting your own. (Just post a favourite to the Bar, and if approved, we'll label it a Tipple.)
[FreePint] Latest News and Digest
FreePint members got the latest News & Digest today. Highlights: Read about and participate in FreePint's Copyright Research Project...
[FUMSI] Report: Folio on Taxonomies and Tagging
FUMSI has published the FUMSI Report: Folio on Taxonomies and Tagging, which includes the results of our survey on how taxonomies and tagging are being applied in organisations...
[VIP] More than Data: Products that Perform
Today's content products need to do more than deliver information. To compete effectively, they have to help users understand, visualise or interact with that information...
We add new articles to the FUMSI database in each practice area every month, which are free to read, browse, email, print or save. Here are the most recent additions:
Making information accessible to all users should be a priority for all information professionals, but it's often difficult to know where to start. Margaret McKay describes JISC's free resources and initiatives in this arena, which should make a useful starting point.
WHAT'S INSIDE: 'Nowadays with equalities legislation firmly in place, providing accessible resources should not belong solely to support specialists any more than accessibility or inclusion should belong exclusively to people with a disability.'
These days organisations can run themselves ragged protecting their internal information assets, but it's of little comfort when 'soft' information - information that may have little inherent value, but yield knowledge when linked up with hard information by competitors - is so easily shared by employees within their social networks outside the workplace. Karen Lawrence Oqvist provides pointers for organisations to turn those potential intelligence risks into receptors by providing a forum in which employees can share and be heard within the workplace.
WHAT'S INSIDE: 'Your employees... will instead congregate, group and link with other subject matter experts from other organisations in virtual spaces somewhere in cyberspace where they can be heard and where their opinion counts. Here they will build their online reputation by communicating, linking and collaborating outside of the confines of the organization'
The latest FUMSI Report offers insight from the pros on key elements in a successful taxonomy or tagging project. Includes the results of our survey on how organisations approach taxonomies and tagging, and where the barriers are.
VIP Magazine No. 71 highlights findings of researchers' testing of Capital IQ and Digimind 7
Capital IQ provides business research and analysis covering some 58,000 public companies and about 1.5 million private companies worldwide, and it claims more than 4,000 clients including all major investment banks. Much of the data it provides is available elsewhere, so its strength lies in the amount of data it aggregates and the level of analysis it permits - often right back to the original filing. Diana Nutting's in-depth report demonstrates the appeal of its built-in analytical tools, with their ability
to drill deeply into the results and provide an audit trail. However, she also reports finding it easy to get lost in the system while searching.
Plenty
of products monitor internet resources to bring back market and
competitive intelligence, but Digimind 7 claims to go one step further
by surfacing results that answer the 'so what?' question. Testing that claim
in his detailed product review, Jonathan Gordon-Till finds that users
can not only incorporate their own internal project files, field data
and annotated information into the product's internet findings but
also generate customised internal newsletters. Its
interface is simple to use, flexible and largely intuitive, he finds -- but its
many functions and components do require a lot of learning.
Purchase the individual product reviews via the links above, or save money by purchasing the entire VIP 71, including news analysis, feature articles, executive summaries of the product reviews and copies of the full product reviews.
VIP LiveWire
VIP contributing editors comment daily on what's happening in the industry.
Visit the LiveWire for their insights, and subscribe to the free VIP Wires Weekly for regular alerts.
VIP Wires Weekly is generously sponsored by AMI Software.
On VIP LiveWire recently...
Electronic records are twice as likely to be unmanaged as paper records, according to a survey from AIIM, the global enterprise content management association, and only 56% of organisations have a procedure for placing a freeze on electronic records in the event of pending litigation. Enterprises that are likely to face regular legal actions need a simple set of practices to follow in any e-discovery process, adds the IT consultant Gartner -- and those that do fully document their search processes can expect to save 25% on their collection processes... Read the full story at: http://www.vivavip.com/go/e25155
Google and print newspapers have been at loggerheads for some time, with publishers accusing it and its ilk of contributing towards the demise of the industry -- but now Google appears to be throwing them a lifeline in the form of an experimental service called Fast Flip. It allows readers to quickly read through content, like flicking through a magazine, before deciding which article to read in full; Google believes that this fast reading experience will lead users to click through to more publishers, thereby providing them with more revenue through contextually relevant ads... Read the full story at: http://www.vivavip.com/go/e24414
Google is also causing alarm in some brand management circles with the introduction of its SideWiki browser application, which allows users to comment on any website even if the site doesn't actually accommodate comments. To find out if this or social networking comment generally matters to your brand, you could try LexisNexis Analytics' influencer index, which uses qualitative and quantitative measures to determine the importance of a social media source to a user, taking into account its market share and the extent to which it is 'embedded' into a community... Read the full story at: http://www.vivavip.com/go/e25260
Award winning company selects SoutronSOLO to give 24 / 7 data access to their consultants and users over the web... Read the full Press Release at: http://www.vivavip.com/go/w82850
Emerald Group Publishing Limited has announced that, as of January 2010, its "Property and Real Estate" collection of eJournals will be renamed as the "Built Environment"... Read the full Press Release at: http://www.vivavip.com/go/w82812
Inderscience Publishers (http://www.inderscience.com) is pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management... Read the full Press Release at: http://www.vivavip.com/go/w82807
'Each issue has a great quantity of content, of excellent quality.' -- Mirjana Martic, Business Information Specialist, SAQ
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Creating a Brand Identity
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Organiser: Incisive Media
Date: 1-3 Dec 2009
Country: United Kingdom
Taxonomy Boot Camp
Technologies and practices on taxonomies; case studies; hands-on workshops
Organiser: Information Today
Date: 19th Nov - 20th Nov 2009
Country: United States
KMWorld
Resetting the Enterprise: Focusing on People, Talent & knowledge: 2-day knowledge management conference
Organiser: Information Today
Date: 17th Nov - 19th Nov 2009
Country: United States
Enterprise Search Summit West
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Alas, the vast majority of us were not fortunate enough to attend
Gary's presentation on Mobile Access to Information at Web Search
University last month in Washington, D.C. But since this is a topic of
intense, growing interest -- 56% of adult Americans have accessed the
internet by wireless means, according to the Pew Internet & American
Life Project -- we thought we'd link to Gary's presentation as our
Resource of the Week.
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FreePint No. 241, 8th November 2007 "Methodology Mixer: Professional and Business Development for the Independent Worker" and "Global Collaborative Search: Watch This Space"
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In
the world of information, there's a constant tension between
spreading information around and locking it down. Info pros have a
natural inclination towards access - their training is all about
helping others find and access the information that will enable them
to be more effective. But controlling access is equally important.
Whether for compliance, privacy, or counter-intelligence, restricting
access is a critical component of information risk
management.
On the other end of the spectrum lies
Karen Lawrence Oqvist's article on 
By Margaret McKay
By Karen Lawrence Oqvist
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