http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/Transformation of Dapp into RSSinfo@dapper.netThu, 18 Mar 2010 03:51:37 +0000http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4528Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000"Every term is sacred,  Every term unique.  So we give them facets  To find them when we seek." A flight engineer...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4471Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000Carpe diem! Organisations of all types are in dire need of the skills of information professionals. With information production growing exponentially, who...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4437Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000While many of us have enjoyed the prospects that RSS promised, it generally remains an unused tool among those we support in our organisations. Perhaps...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4394Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000Attending a conference or event today can result in a whirlwind of information and contacts. People attend these events with different...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4340Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000As part of a recent role, I was involved in a major project that took me beyond my usual skill set as a librarian. I was not only helping...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4293Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000'Taxonomist' is one of the more specialist information management careers. How do you get started in this profession? We asked four taxonomists...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4200Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000Let's face it right at the start, no ducking the issue, image tagging for business findability is hard - though the light at the end of the tunnel...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4154Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000It is not an exaggeration to say that the lifeblood of today's organisation, whether it be in the private or public sector, is information....http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/4024Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000In Part 1 of this three-part series I talked about Intranet Zero and in Part 2 discussed a model for a robust intranet 1.0 - the ‘Lean Intranet'. In this...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3949Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000No hardware, no software, no hassle! Send your information into the cloud for an easier working life! Perhaps, but as responsible Information Managers,...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3906Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000In the first of this series of three articles I talked about intranet zero; so called as it offers virtually zero benefit to users and their organizations....http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3791Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000Folksonomies: Business Use Written by Fran Alexander. Folksonomies have become very popular on content-sharing websites such as Flickr...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3730Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000SharePoint, SharePoint, SharePoint - as an information management professional, I can't currently move for SharePoint engagements and, considering the...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3618Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000There is an elephant in the intranet living room. In all that has been written about intranets, very few commentators ever mention the fact that intranets...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3579Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000Following their recent ISKO UK presentation, Karen Loasby discusses automatic classification with freelance information architect Helen Lippell and BBC...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3460Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000Information Architects always want to know how easy our site is to use and how often it is used by the audiences we target. For the most part, few people...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3380Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000Like many organisations, law firms have an odd relationship with information. They know information is really important, especially the really valuable...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3327Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000A lot has been written about what the Semantic Web is, but little has been said about the impact it will have. After a brief recap on what the Semantic...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3198Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000This two-part article is a step-by-step guide for those wishing to create new taxonomies for their business unit or client. It will outline the many...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3126Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000This two-part article is a step-by-step guide for those wishing to create new taxonomies for their business unit, or client. It will outline the many...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3095Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000Miami is a young, optimistic and fast-expanding city. The Downtown area is full of cranes, building sites and condominium blocks rising up to the Florida...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2972Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000Today, nearly a million organisations worldwide are accredited to an ISO management system standard. The exponential growth in the number of accreditations...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2854Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000Knowledge is a blend of experience, values, information in context, and insight that forms a basis on which to build new experiences and information. It is...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2771Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000One of the reasons I was able to quit my job and launch my research business back in 1991 was my background as a specialised librarian. While I did not...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2775Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000In a previous issue of FUMSI, I discussed the essential processes of preparation required for effective vendor and contract negotiation. So let's look...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2778Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000For many years the only time the word ‘environment' came up in a discussion about business, it was in terms of the ‘business environment' or the...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2744Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000The great promise of RSS feeds was that they would save us from information overload. However, when subscribing to more feeds every day is just a click...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2694Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000Successful contract and vendor management cuts costs, improves business performance and enhances vendor-client relationships. It wins the respect of...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2635Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000Are libraries threatened with extinction, or are they morphing into a universal hub of information and knowledge, an indispensable factor in the success of...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2662Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000When a member of my team announced he was moving interstate a few years ago, I realised I was about to lose someone with four years of specialist product...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2613Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000On the evolutionary scale, 10 years isn't even a blip, not a blink, not a breath in. It's hardly anything at all. But on the information scale, especially...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2607Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000Working as an independent worker can be a professionally liberating and exciting experience. You are more in control of your own destiny and there is an...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2609Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000I would love to say that I set out on my independent consultancy career fully equipped with a 5-year strategic plan, divided into short-, medium- and...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2509Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000Over the last 12 months at the University of Brighton we have been setting up some new postgraduate awards in information management to complement our...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2512Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000In recent years, much progress has been made in the way organisations gain value from information audits. Now there is a range of experienced...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2482Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000The last few months have seen established information companies increasingly offering free quality data. At the same time, changes in the way broker firms...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2483Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000Gaining a competitive advantage presents an enormous challenge for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Usually they will have many competitors offering...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2498Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000One could argue that today's global landscape hosts more risks to country, corporate and individual safety than ever before. Consider the war in Iraq, the...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2494Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000Information architects do not appear to be big fans of gambling. At my lunch table at the eighth annual gathering of information architects in Las Vegas,...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2495Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000[The following article is based on a presentation given by Heather Carine to the Australian Law Librarians' Association (South Australian Branch) on 5 March...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2492Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000In 2001 I was asked to put a pool table into Prenax's converted industrial loft offices in North London. At this time, 'fun' was one of our three values...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2520Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000'It doesn't affect me.' 'If I ignore it, maybe it will go away.' 'I don't have time for it.' These are just a few of the claims that I have been...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2528Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000Integrating libraries and computer services, often together with other service units, has been one of the most interesting developments in universities,...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2529Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000In 2001, FreePint featured an article on the still-new concept of information architecture (IA) in "Information Architecture and web Usability Resources"...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2538Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000The global information industry has been a witness to phenomenal changes in recent times. Recent industry estimates peg the global information industry at...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2539Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2544Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000Marcy Phelps, Denver, Colorado, USA -- As an independent information professional, it's easy to fall into the 'Lone Wolf Syndrome'. You become so...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2490Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000But who will benefit from EThOS? And why establish the service now? The context of a thesis: a university or college Global access to...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2572Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000What's in a word? Sometimes a word acquires so many meanings that it becomes difficult to use clearly. This happened to 'portal', and it may be...