http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/Transformation of Dapp into RSSinfo@dapper.netTue, 09 Feb 2010 23:42:04 +0000http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4470Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000What are the tren ds for 2010? Fellow FUMSI editor Martin Belam thinks that social media tools have been hot news in 2009 and will...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4436Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000What are the trends for 2010? Fellow FUMSI editor Martin Belam thinks that social media tools have been hot news in 2009 and will continue to be in...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4393Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000Literacy and inclusion are common themes in information use. We often think of disadvantaged communities that require unique ideas and...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4341Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000Whenever someone mentions the ter m 'mashup' I inevitably think of two things, 'Monster Mash' and mashed potatoes. Don't ask me why; I know...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4292Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000Readers who work in further and higher education (FE/HE) across the UK may be familiar with JISC, also known as the Joint Information Systems Committee,...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4201Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000All businesses thrive on internal information. It drives their processes and helps to meet their goals, deliver strategies and help with...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4155Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000What do you think of when you hear the words ‘home birth'? Do you envision a sudden emergency and a panic-stricken dash to the hospital, or...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4023Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000How were you trained to find information? Possibly you were not trained at all. One would like to think otherwise, but I suspect most of us were plonked at...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3972Mon, 01 Jun 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. All...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3934Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +00002009 is the ninetieth anniversary of Business Insight, Birmingham Central Library's business information service providing free business information and...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3874Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000Written by Dennie Heye Whether working within government or for-profit organisations, information service departments will...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3790Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000EBooks and Traditional Texts: Complementary or Mutually Exclusive? Written by Kate Worlock The eBooks market has been poised for...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3617Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000I sometimes struggle to define my role with clients. There are days that I would tell you that I am a researcher. Other days, I would tell you that I...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3578Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000Contact centres are widely used by both the private and public sector as a means of ‘doing business' without having to go to a specific location. The...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3378Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000The availability of so much information on the Internet, free at the point of use, has led the public into a false sense of security, believing that...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3345Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000Federated search - also known as metasearch or a distributed information retrieval system - provides one portal for searching information from multiple...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3326Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000In this article I'll talk about business uses for Second Life (SL) ( http://www.secondlife.com/ ) and give some tips for working in SL. SL is a virtual...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3197Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000Evidence Based Medicine - EBM. It's a phrase much beloved by politicians. We're all increasingly familiar with it, but where did it come from, and how did...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3155Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000People have been licensing photographs almost since the inception of the medium in the nineteenth century. Victorian picture agencies like the London...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3094Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000As I write this article at the beginning of the downturn, I realise how fortunate I am that my information department has not yet been affected by...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2971Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000It has been seven years since Marc Prensky launched the concept of digital natives (the post-www generations) and digital immigrants (everyone else!) on...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2924Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000The Library and Information Show (LIS), an annual event for the UK library and information community, took place over two days in April at the...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2853Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000Information professionals are often seen as peripherally providing a service to an organisation rather than being an integral part of the management of...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2780Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000As an independent information professional you are quite well versed (if not expert) in finding, using, synthesising and delivering information to your...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2772Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000There isn't an information professional in the world these days who doesn't have to demonstrate that they add value. But media librarians - the folk who...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2777Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000Legal research often conjures up images of assistants scurrying to find case law, related statutes, regulations to prove an argument, or an attorney...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2710Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000Our changing information landscape opens up new options for librarians and info pros to transfer their skills to a myriad of nontraditional fields. Some of...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2672Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000Hard, objective, accurate, definitive, precise numbers are beguilingly appealing. Yet in reality numbers are often subjective, vague, provisional and...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2661Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000What do a publicly funded institution like the British Library and the competitive members of the Special Libraries Association have to offer each other in...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2611Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000This year's Online Information conference and exhibition at Olympia (4-6 December 2007, Olympia, UK) attracted thousands of visitors, over 230 exhibitors...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2612Sat, 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/use/2346Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000Online social networking provides you with a venue to connect with people whom you already know, grow your relationships and find new people connected to...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2506Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000In the past few months, it's been hard to ignore the phenomenon of Facebook. This online social networking tool has even caught the attention of...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2503Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000One of the classic lines from Star Trek was when, on seeing new life on a strange planet, Dr McCoy turned to Captain Kirk and said in an ominous tone:...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2499Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000Every once in a while, I think, it's not a bad idea to venture outside your personal comfort zone. For me, that means getting away from the computer. I...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2500Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000Prior to SLA, Free Pint Limited ran a survey across our communities (particularly FreePint, ResourceShelf, DocuTicker and Jinfo) to get users' feedback on...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2496Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000The transition from Development 1.0 to Development 2.0 One interesting aspect - which is sometimes forgotten - behind O'Reilly Media's coining of...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2489Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000Introduction As access to the Internet becomes less expensive and more widely available, distance learning is becoming an increasingly efficient...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2491Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000Over the course of doing business, every organisation encounters the need to conduct product evaluations. Sometimes evaluations are no more complex than...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2521Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000There's something of a seismic shift occurring in the ownership structure of a couple of our best-known information companies. The news that Thomson...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2524Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000The web design industry is understandably excited about eye-tracking technology. Finally, technology that knows what the people who use your website are...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2525Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2530Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000In July 2006, the American comedian Stephen Colbert defined 'wikiality' (a combination of the words 'Wikipedia' and 'reality') as 'truth by consensus'....http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2531Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000Bloggers may not rule the world (yet) but they do wield surprising power. They can turn elections, expose scandal, and shift public thought. Blogging, and...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2533Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000Think for a minute: what did you buy yesterday? A newspaper? A tank of petrol? Online advertising space? A local area connection? If you're like most people...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2541Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000[This article reflects key points in a presentation to be given by the authors at the Internet Librarian International conference in London, 16-17 October...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2542Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000The latest annual European Online Information Market survey from IRN Research <http://www.irn-research.com/ >values the European online market at...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2551Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000Online technology has revolutionised how scholars communicate with each other. It is also changing how publishers do business. Those of us who rely on...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2565Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000The VIP publications, VIP and VIP Eye, are concerned with the business information industry - its products, its providers and its users <...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2557Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000Introduction Blogs and podcasts provide intelligence for consumer trend monitoring. In conjunction with your existing consumer intelligence (CI)...http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2568Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000