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Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, October 2003, Ten Best Intranets of 2003: 175-page Intranet Design Annual with 97 screenshots of the ten winners is available for download, pdf, $98. [Link] The ten winning intranets are: Amadeus Global Travel Distribution, Spain; ChevronTexaco; Design Matters, Inc., a Web design agency; FIGG Engineering Group, a consultancy specializing in bridges, Fujitsu …
The recombinant library: portals and people, by Lorcan Dempsey, VP, Research, OCLC. …”library time and resources should be freed to think about selection and use of the collection, not consumed by the messy mechanics of acquisitions and processing; and the user experience should be shaped by learning and research needs not by the arbitrary constraints …
As a follow-up to my August 14 posting, Publisher Sues Financial Services Firm for Copyright Violation, this news from Reuters, Legg Mason told to pay $20 mln in copyright suit. “Lowry’s, which is based in North Palm Beach, Florida, said it brought the lawsuit because Legg Mason permitted wide distribution (via the company’s intranet) of …
“As applications and users multiply, companies are turning to ID management software to improve access to applications, password management and the provisioning of resources. [Link]
The following new articles were published this week on LLRX.com: How Dewey Classify OCLC’s Lawsuit Knowledge Management is a Business Imperative The Future of RSS – Is E-Mail Publishing Dead? WTO/GATT Research Update to Introduction to the Swiss Legal System: A Guide for Foreign Researchers Lexis and Westlaw Changes and Wishlist FOIA Facts: Inside the …
Cost, Value and ROI for Knowledge Management in Law Firms Blogs for Public Lawyers Disaster Preparedness: Locking Out Former IT Personnel Choosing a Digital Camera Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) – Legal Definitions of Child P****graphy, Obs****ty and “Harmful to Minors” Notes from the Tech Trenches: Free News Alerts Privacy Under the FOIA vs. Historians/Journalists …
A decision from the U.S. District Court, Maryland, July 10, Lowry’s Reports v. Legg Mason, found that the financial services firm had violated copyright terms stipulated by its subscription to Lowry’s report, through the ongoing distribution of the publication’s content on the company’s firm-wide intranet and via e-mail. [From BNA’s Internet Law News]
From Reuters: “Google, the No. 1 Web search engine in the United States….announced eight customers for its enterprise search appliance (Google Search Appliance)…that helps companies and organizations search for products and information within corporate intranets and Web sites. The company, seen by many in financial circles as an ideal candidate for an initial public offering, …
Robin Good’s Mini Guide: Become a News G-d: How to be the first one to know everything about anything – Intelligent Information Agents Come of Age. This 102 page guide, in pdf, is available for purchase via Robin Good’s Sharewood Tidings website. Arranged in 14 short chapters, it evaluates a wide range of free and …
Storing e-text for centuries describes the LOCKSS (for “lots of copies keep stuff safe”) project for permanent publishing on the Web, which is the brainchild of Stanford University librarian Vicky Reich and researcher David Rosenthal. From the LOCKSS website: “LOCKSS creates low-cost, persistent digital “caches” of authoritative versions of http-delivered content. The LOCKSS software enables …
How to Win the Information Battle Lessons from a Modern War “Communication is moving from being a peripheral, specialist responsibility to being an essential and integral element of corporate leadership. No matter the organization government, business, nonprofit the roles of professional communicators who lead communications functions are being reinvented and reinvigorated.”
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