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From recent college graduates to veteran employees, there are four generations in the work force today: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X-ers, and Millenials. With each of these groups comes a different opinion on how to best get the job done. More often than not, these different views on productivity collide and affect more than just the process—they affect the results. As technology advances, it is difficult to reach all four groups effectively, but it is essential for productivity to reconcile generational differences and get every employee, regardless of his or her generation, on the same page.
The holidays came early to 125 high school students when Microsoft gave Zune players to students in exchange for research data, in hopes of expanding its products into schools across the country. Devices were given to 100 Fort Sumner High School students in New Mexico and 25 at South Valley Junior High in Liberty, Mo. The idea was for students to watch videos and listen to podcasts recommended by teachers and fellow students with the expectation of enhancing their educational experience.
WikiProteins, which went live in early spring, has adapted the ubiquitous Wikipedia model in an effort to aggregate biomedical information from a collection of databases and resources into a single portal.
Late last month, approximately 1,300 executives, IT professionals, and curious onlookers descended upon the opulent Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel in balmy Orlando, Florida for FASTforward '08, a three-day business and technology conference--with an emphasis on search technologies and strategies--hosted by Fast Search and Transfer (FAST).
A recent partnership launched between Near-Time, Inc. and Wiley Wrox Press has opened the door to interaction among P2P digital publishing communities.
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Social networking sites and online collaboration tools make it easier for employees to collaborate and share their knowledge. Add email and instant messaging (IM) to the mix and the result is a knowledge-sharing system that can bolster communication and productivity throughout an enterprise.
Social networking for the enterprise is booming. The sector is unquestionably adding revenues for new providers, adding jobs at old companies, and adding profits throughout the industry. In a wave that seemed to begin in earnest just 18 months ago, enterprises now embrace these tools to achieve better (and less expensive) results across most major business functions despite fears over losing control of company secrets.
Has the enterprise portal been helped by or swept into oblivion by the successive waves of progress of Web 2.0 and the already-much-ballyhooed Web 3.0? Despite the phenomenal growth of collaborative web culture, the notion of a centrally managed, single point of entry to reach company applications and content persists in companies across the globe. Yet the opinions of experts in the field differ greatly on what the priorities should be today.
Take a closer look at TransMedia Corp., one of the 12 companies that inspired the most banter among the EContent 100 judges during the voting process.
You will find many enthusiastic voices, echoing the marketing material from vendors and busy conference floors, proclaiming wikis to be the ultimate solution to a wide range of information management problems. So how do you know if a wiki will bring positive change to your organization?
Product Reviews
GroupSwim is a reasonably priced software-as-a-service-based social media collaboration tool. It has enough features to please enterprise users in organizations of any size. It's easy to set up and simple to use with many of the features one would expect, as well as some interesting advanced features. Yet, markedly, it lacks a blogging tool.
I appreciate one of NoteScribe's taglines: Save a Forest, NoteScribe It! because it advocates saving paper by taking and storing notes online. But I'd add another phrase: Save your Sanity, NoteScribe It! because this excellent program allows you to organize your notes by categories, keywords, and sources; add files from a variety of formats; and find your notes quickly and painlessly.
There's a lot to like about this online project management software. Wrike is reasonably priced and easy to use, but without offline capability and lacking in some basic functionality such as recurring tasks and the ability to add a time to a task, it still has room for improvement.
Clearspace is a collaboration platform built for the largest applications but is also suitable for small and medium-sized groups. While many collaboration platforms emphasize a specific functionality, Clearspace offers a variety of tools, including excellent support for blogs, wikis, documents, and discussions. A superior, customizable user interface makes Clearspace a very attractive and useable platform.
JabberNow provides an easy way—for both IT staff and end users—to include secure instant messaging in your organization’s arsenal of communication and collaboration tools. With impressive flexibility, Jabber packs potent presence-awareness and enhanced teamwork into the small form factor of its JabberNow appliance.
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I was recently blogging about a conference presentation I was preparing, and, being a conscientious info pro, I was planning on tagging my blog post (and, heck, my Twitter Tweets too). And suddenly, I realized I was channeling my grad school Cataloging 101 professor: Am I going to be doing descriptive tagging or subject tagging?
Imagine for a moment that your company has built a factory and filled it with machinery. Or perhaps your company has built a large, new office building with a sizeable parking lot and a good cafeteria. These additions represent considerable investment. Now, imagine that they have forgotten where they built the factory and where the office is located. Beyond imagination, you say. No company would be that incompetent.
Working in groups with free online tools has become an American passion. In his great 19th-century, two-volume work Democracy in America, Alexis deTocqueville estimated that there were more independent associations in America than there were individuals.
Are you sure that the search system you're using will satisfy the requirements of the Federal Rules for Civil Procedures (FRCP) regarding electronically stored information (ESI)? If your first reaction is "not more acronyms," I feel your pain. Vendors create acronyms faster than they upgrade their products. So let's start with the meaning of the FRCP, focusing on the amendments regarding ESI that went into effect on Dec. 1, 2006.
A few years ago, the department of information studies at the University of Sheffield invited me to be a visiting professor. On a recent visit, I talked to an undergraduate student who was starting to look at what might be her first step on a career in information management. Like so many information professionals, I got into the business by accident, after discovering that I was not really that good at chemistry. While not uncommon, that approach is difficult to commend to a student.
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