How High is Your Value?
22nd November 2012

Although regulatory pressures mean that demand for high value services continues to grow, the specific value that information professionals can bring doesn’t always appear to be recognised. Compliance workflow solutions from vendors such as Thomson Reuters or LexisNexis may appear to diminish the info pro’s role, but there is actually plenty of scope for them to engage in regulatory horizon scanning and early warning. Current examples of upcoming issues include changes in European Union data protection legislation, liability for actionable Tweets and corporate ownership of staff emails.

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Stretching and Shaping the Knowledge Management Concept
22nd November 2012

If you work within the knowledge management field then it's essential to understand is that there are different types of knowledge and to appreciate how to distinguish between these different types. In a fascinating post on the Knoco stories blog the author looks at the knowledge management landscape and asks "What does the knowledge management landscape look like?" and "Why is it important to understand what the terms mean and what they encompass?"

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Who Owns Enterprise Collaboration?
21st November 2012

It's widely acknowledged that collaboration within an enterprise has many benefits. The collaboration tools that organisations are providing for employees are constantly improving but the ways in which they're being managed haven't changed significantly. Perhaps more importantly, the question of who should be managing enterprise collaboration and the tools that support it remains an issue. If this is not addressed it can hamper their adoption.

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Big Data: The Opportunity Formerly Known as Information Overload
20th November 2012

Industry focus on Big Data represents a huge opportunity for information professionals. In many senses, we have worked with Big Data for our entire careers. We can leverage that experience, along with our expert ability to locate, evaluate and transform data and information into knowledge products, in order to advance our organisations’ bottom lines.

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Interpretation of Images: Why News Analysis Matters
19th November 2012

Do you believe your eyes? Today's news environment is awash with images and video, but the savvy researcher must be aware of how easy it can be to alter or falsify them. Examples provided by analysts at BBC Monitoring demonstrate the impact of knowledgeable media analysis to in-depth understanding of what's really happening, regardless of what photo or video evidence may suggest.

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Three Fundamentals for Business Research in the Post-Truth Era
15th November 2012

The dismantling of traditional media culture and the proliferation of content channels for business-relevant news may result in more errors and misstatements in the sources that business research analysts rely on. To counter these forces, the author reminds readers of the foundation of good research and analysis, and in doing so presents a simple framework that incorporates skills in discovery and assessment; scepticism, critical thinking and prioritising; and candid, consultative reporting.

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Mendeley's Research Report Proves Open Access Boosts Productivity
14th November 2012

Coinciding with the global open access week initiative, Mendeley, the cloud-based database providing access to academic and scientific research papers, has published the Global Research Report. The report, which is a useful research tool in its own right, contains statistics based on Mendeley's two million users worldwide and more than 65 million uploaded research papers. All this ties in with recent UK Government efforts to boost open access with £10 million worth of funding and to comply with the Research Council UK Open Access Policy, which was launched in July of this year.

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FreePint Report: Knowledge Management
13th November 2012

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New Video Curation Tools Let You Filter Cute Kitten Virals
8th November 2012

As information professionals, we know that video news has become an important part of the mix when searching for business news. However, with 72 hours of video being uploaded every minute on YouTube alone, how do you sort the wheat from the chaff – the cute baby videos and the Fenton, the dog videos from those that contain relevant nuggets of information? The answer lies in video curation, and in recent months there have been launches of new apps and other tools worth mentioning.

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Too Much Data? Trust Your Judgement
5th November 2012

Salesforce.com continues to grow its portfolio to unify social listening, content, engagement, advertising, workflow, automation and measurement. While sales executives may have access to more data than ever in crafting their sales territories or incentive plans, concern about misleading, incomplete or out-of-context data is leading at least a third of these executives to place some reliance on their "best guess".

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