With Intranets, Its All About Content
Does Your Intranet Have a Win-Win Strategy?
Category «Knowledge Management»
Perspective on Information Architecture
An Introduction to the Thought of S.R. Ranganathan for Information Architects: “The Five Laws of Library Science – The Five Laws are the kernel of all of Ranganathan’s practice. They are: -Books are for use. -Every reader his or her book. -Every book its reader. -Save the time of the reader. -The Library is a …
Another Perspective on Knowledge Management in Law Firms
Capturing tacit knowledge: Do you know more than you think? “An examination of the challenges involved in capturing tacit knowledge, by Bina Shah, Allen & Overy.” [via excited utterances] “Tacit knowledge is a mixture of deliberations, subjective insight, intuition and judgment that lawyers acquire by virtue of their experience and expertise.”
Applications and Services for Managing Digital Resources
The Many Facets of Managing Electronic Resources. The author discusses “back-end management tools for library staff,” and “front-end management” products and applications to facilitate effective delivery of services to users.
Gov’t Agencies Add Google to Search Intelligence Data
According to Government Computer News, two Google Seach Appliances have been purchased for use on the government’s intranet for classified information sharing that spans numerous agencies, called Intelink.
Commentary on the Evolution of KM
The Future of Knowledge Management – Discussion Paper by Dave Pollard: “This paper is the result of discussions with many KM leaders about the current quandary of the KM discipline, and how ‘social software’, weblogs, and the perceived need for improvement in front-line worker productivity could present KM leaders with an opportunity to ‘reinvent’ the …
Link Rot Undermines Scholarly Web Research
Information science. Going, going, gone: lost Internet references. Dellavalle RP, Hester EJ, Heilig LF, Drake AL, Kuntzman JW, Graber M, Schilling LM, Science (subscription only), October 31, 2003, 302: 787-788. “The use of Internet references in academic literature is common, and Internet references are frequently inaccessible. The extent of Internet referencing and Internet reference activity …
Effective Corporate Use of the Web
From BusinessWeek.com: The Web Smart 50: Areas evaluated include collaboration, customer service, customization, streamlining, management and cutting edge applications. “Meet the masters of the Web. We’ve divided them into six categories and have shown how they’re using the Web to benefit their customers — and themselves.”
New on LLRX.com
New on LLRX.com this week: LLRX Named One of the 10 Best Sites of the Decade Researching Medical Literature on the Internet — 2003 Update To Portal or Not to Portal – That is the Question Competitive Intelligence (CI) Resources: Staying One Step Ahead in Your Research Presentations Without a Laptop FOIA Items of Interest …
Are KM Portals Losing Ground to Customized Solutions?
Deconstructing Knowledge by Nicholas Carroll, a project manager with Hastings Research, comments on the recent KM World-Intranets Convention, and “the disappearance of total end-to-end solutions.” Links to over 2 dozen presentations from the conference are here. If you are interested in intranets, portal, and KM, these materials are worth your review. In addition, see Catherine …
Strategies to Improve the Navigation of Portals, Websites and KM Apps
Sitemaps and Site Indexes: What They Are and Why You Should Have Them, by Chiara Fox: “Sitemaps and site indexes are forms of supplemental navigation. They give users a way to navigate a site without having to use the global navigation. By providing a way to visualize and understand the layout and structure of the …
Researchers, Gov’t and Corporations Look to Evolving Info Management Applications
This New York Times article focuses on the growing interest in, and use of “text mining, a technique that academics have been experimenting with for years but for which tools have only recently become commercially available. The prospect of rapidly scanning through reams of documents is stirring interest among researchers and analysts faced with more …
