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11th June 2009
No.279
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About FreePint
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Editorial
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By Sara Waddington
 SLA's annual conference is about to start... Why not register your interest in SLA's Centennial Celebration in Washington, D.C. in June 2009? FreePint will keep you informed with insider information on where and when to meet FreePint editorial staff and an invitation to FreePint events and receptions.
Don't forget that we have also now extended the VIP publishing programme with the introduction of stand-alone Reports on Products and Reports on Vendors. Readers can now purchase a quarterly subscription to VIP so that every month they receive VIP Magazine, featuring news analysis and highlights from our product reviews and VIP Reports on Products, featuring our in-depth review of premium content products (minimum of 2 per month).
 The purpose of any knowledge organisation system should be to make it easy for people to find things, and so the more options and flexibility provided, the better. Folksonomies are fluid, responsive, and encourage personal expression, so for niche groups, customers, non-critical content and for fun, they have much to offer. However, folksonomies only work well under certain conditions, and not in all business contexts as Fran Alexander explains in her FUMSI article 'Folksonomies: Business Use'.
The official theme of this year's Computers in Libraries (CIL) conference was 'Creating Tomorrow: Spreading Ideas & Learning', but it is the concept of spreading ideas that CIL is all about. With three keynotes, 75 sessions, two days of Cyber Tours, a host of workshops, a busy exhibit hall, and the events related to Internet@Schools East, Computers in Libraries was a very full event. Jill Hurst-Wahl analyses the event in more detail in her FUMSI article 'Computers in Libraries 2009: Spreading Ideas'.
FUMSI subscribers can also now enjoy the latest FUMSI 'Folio on Adding Value'. This Folio includes six expert-written articles providing tips and techniques for adding value to information work products, framed with commentary from Tim Buckley Owen, FUMSI's Contributing Editor for the Use practice area.
We hope to see you at SLA!
Sara Waddington
Senior Managing Editor
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My Favourite Tipples
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By Gavin Lewis
Looking for some handy web design resources and links?
- Keep up to date with ReadWriteWeb - a useful blog with the latest news on web technology.
- The WebDeveloper.com website offers articles, a resource directory, links to events and news plus a range of other services.
- Webmonkey is a free, public resource for web developers. Builders, designers and programmers write the articles, tutorials, code snippets and other contributions.
- For web development, IT management, networking and IT news, try Developer.com.
- Check the news and discussion for web pros at Web Master World.
Gavin Lewis is an IT professional working for a multi-national based in the UK.
Would you like to add your Favourite Tipples suggestions for the FreePint Newsletter or write an article for FUMSI (Find, Use, Manage or Share Information?).
If so, please contact Sara Waddington at sara.waddington@freepint.com with your ideas or visit <http://web.freepint.com/go/family/contribute>.
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Just published in VIP:
- Product Reviews of ReadyImages and NewsEdge v8
- Expert commentary on requirements and risks of corporate copyright compliance
- Commentary on generational behaviour study, adding value and more
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FreePint Bar
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By Sara Waddington
Recommendations for media monitoring and evaluation agencies, food producers' magazines, UK newspaper searches and conference reports are hot topics on the Bar at the moment. See a round-up of recent conversations below and click through to join the discussion. Post your research dilemmas to the FreePint Bar »
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- One 'Pinter would appreciate recommendations for media monitoring and media evaluation agencies that have an international/global focus and include detailed coverage in the UK and US markets. He is specifically looking for media and blog monitoring, review/analysis and sector reports.
- Another 'Pinter, who is doing research for a food machinery company, requests help with finding food producers' magazines and websites.
- Can you offer a FreePinter your ideas on databases or mechanisms that allow searches on UK newspapers from the 1960s or 1970s?
- FreePint was proud to be a media partner for the Perfect Information Conference (PIC) in May. If you attended, or even if you couldn't make it, you can still get the benefit of delegates' experience by requesting your free copy of the FreePint PIC report. Simply complete the form and you'll receive your copy upon publication.
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FUMSI Features
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 FUMSI publishes articles, tools, and a monthly magazine, to give you practical help with information skills.
Visit http://www.fumsi.com/
However you Find, Use, Manage or Share Information, you'll find something in FUMSI to help.
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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:
Folksonomies: Business Use
FUMSI: Manage
Folksonomies are gaining favour as a free content organisational system on sites like Flickr and del.icio.us, but that doesn't make them ready for business prime time. Fran Alexander explores the pros and cons of folksonomies in the workplace and provides some insight into balancing the costs and benefits of crowd-sourced tagging.
WHAT'S INSIDE: 'Appropriate rewards to encourage tagging will depend on the type of content and the corporate culture. If people feel that they are spending a lot of time tagging, but others are benefiting more than them, or that they are adding helpful tags and other people are adding self-promotional or silly tags, they may become disillusioned and the folksonomy will stagnate.'
Read, print, save or forward this article now »
Computers in Libraries 2009: Spreading Ideas
FUMSI: Share
This year's Computers in Libraries show focused on creating the future of libraries through spreading ideas and learning. As Jill Hurst-Wahl reports, the conference keynotes and sessions promoted just that goal, with valuable insights shared both inside the session rooms and spilling out into spirited discussions at 'lobbycon'.
WHAT'S INSIDE: 'During the interview, Boekesteijn and Holdengraber agree that maybe a librarian needs to become a live-brarian/life-brarian. In other words, librarians are available to provide information that is related to your life. Holdengraber noted our job is to get people to desire the books that are on the shelves in a library. We need to connect people to the books, events and conversations that are occurring in and through libraries.'
Read, print, save or forward this article now »
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VIP Features
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VIP publishes in-depth, unbiased reviews of business information products. If you purchase or use premium information resources, make VIP part of your professional reading every month »
 VIP Magazine No. 66 includes:
- A special two-page section called VIP Horizon. Based on conversations with subscribers, we are experimenting with ways to help you communicate internally around issues and challenges in information work. We invite VIP subscribers to extract the VIP Horizon pages, add your notes, and share them freely throughout their *entire* organisation, regardless of their distribution level.
- Mind the Gap: A LexisNexis survey suggests that there really is a generational gulf between Baby Boomers and Generation Y in attitudes towards technology.
- Corporate Copyright Compliance: Three intellectual property attorneys and a content purchasing specialist answer questions on copyright compliance issues that need to be addressed by corporations in today's digital environment.
- VIP's View: Highlights from Jill Fenton's in-depth review of the Copyright Clearance Center's ReadyImages, and Penny Crossland on Acquire Media's NewsEdge v8.
- Perceived Value: As info pros face intensified pressure to quantify the value they provide to organisations, Dennie Heye gives advice on how to demonstrate return on investment to management.
In the next VIP: Cision Social Media and a comparative review of Scopus and
Web of Science
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Jinfo - Jobs and Events in Information
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A look back at what the FreePint Newsletter covered at this time in previous years:
- FreePint No. 254, 5th June 2008. "Information Provision: Adding Value" and "US Government Information on the Internet"
- FreePint No. 231, 14th June 2007. "CI: Collaborative Intelligence" and "Vigilant Due Diligence"
- FreePint No. 207, 8th June 2006. "Distance learning as a collaborative enterprise: Tips on teamwork to make the class work" and "Q&A with Christopher Barger, IBM's Blogger-in-Chief"
- FreePint No. 183, 26th May 2005. "Bullying at Work" and "Specialist Tribunals - Your Guide to Informal Justice"
- FreePint No. 160, 27th May 2004. "Online Information Online - behind the scenes of a virtual event" and "The Semantic Web is Your Friend"
- FreePint No. 138, 5th June 2003. "Professional Qualifications in Information and Knowledge Management" and "Writing for the Web - How to Write Web-Friendly Content for your Site"
- FreePint No. 114, 13th June 2002. "Web Site Usability Resources" and "War & Peace, Famine & Disaster - Finding Work in International Development"
- FreePint No. 89, 7th June 2001. "Conference Information and the Internet" and "Dyslexia Resources"
- FreePint No. 64, 8th June 2000. "Understanding Insurance" and "The Invisible Web"
- FreePint No. 40, 10th June 1999. "Weather Sources on the Web" and "Searching for Mammon - Search engine business models"
- FreePint No. 16, 11th June 1998. "Web Site Marketing - How do they do that?" and "How to run a survey on the Net"
FreePint Newsletter Archive »
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Forthcoming Articles - Provisional
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FUMSI
- SharePoint
- Peer-to-Peer Sharing
- Ingenious Uses for Information
- Digital Copyright
VIP
- Cision Social Media review
- Alacra Pulse review
- Comparative review of Scopus and Web of Science
If you have a suggestion for an article topic, or would like to write, then please contact FreePint's Editor Sara Waddington at <sara.waddington@freepint.com> or read the notes for authors at <http://web.freepint.com/go/family/contribute/>
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