Category «Knowledge Management»

US News and WR Publishes Rankings of Top Grad Schools By Category

America’s Best Graduate Schools: “The 2007 rankings are in! The key disciplines include business, law, medicine, engineering, and education. Our directory covers more than 1,200 programs: admissions requirements, financial aid info, student body profiles, starting salaries in your field, and more.” Included are: Top Law Schools Top Library & Information Studies Programs

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Significant Increase in Readers Visiting Newspaper Websites

Press release: “Eight in 10 adults (116 million) are reading the newspaper over the course of a week, and one in three Internet users (55 million) visit a newspaper Web site over the course of a month, according to the spring 2006 Newspaper Audience Database (NADbase) report released today by the Newspaper Association of America. …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

New on LLRX.com

Analyze This: The Evolution of Competitive Intelligence Products for the Legal Profession, by Donna Cavallini Interpretation and Translation Resources for the Criminal Justice System, by Ken Strutin Campaign Finance and the Internet: A Commentary on the Online Freedom of Speech Act, by Beth Wellington Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Updated, by Donna …

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Marketing, Wireless Web

Google Finance Is “Early-Stage Beta Product”

According to the Official Google Blog, Google’s newly released Finance service is in beta, with additional content and features to be added in future. Currently, users are offered data in the following categories: Market Summary, Today’s Headlines, Company Facts and Financials, Related company data, a Company Summary, Management info, blog posts and links to topical …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Comparison of Web Browsers

Wikipedia has published an extensive comparison of over two dozen web browsers. Included is information on each respective browser’s general history, features, operating system support, web technology support, languages in which the brower is available, and technical vulnerabilities. Readers note that all data is subject to verification, as this is a collaborative, open source publication.

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Online Archive of Historical Documents From Institutions Around the World

“ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Offshoring of Computing and IT Jobs

Globalization and Offshoring of Software – A Report of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Job Migration Task Force, William Aspray, Frank Mayadas, Moshe Y. Vardi, Editors “This study reports on the findings of the Job Migration Task Force established by ACM to examine the issues surrounding the migration of jobs within the computing and …

Subjects: Knowledge Management