Who are information professionals? We provide actionable knowledge to our clients, whether they be in the corporate, government, non-profit or other sectors. We work with our clients to provide the information they need to make decisions and move forward.
“Information has gone from scarce to superabundant: that brings huge new benefits, says Kenneth Cukier (interviewed here)—but also big headaches.” The Economist print edition, Feb 25th 2010,
In my consulting work, my clients are wrestling with the terabytes of data they produce. Finding information that already exists in an organization can be the most frustrating, time-consuming [...]
Last night I presented to about 30 of my colleagues about Mining Enterprise Business Intelligence–All the World’s a Stage: Another Role for Info Pros. You can view the PDF of the slidedeck at:http://www.information-edge.com/presentations.php
Every organization can benefit from integrating its information silos and making information findable for staff to utilize in their work. Rather than [...]
WASHINGTON D.C., December 8, 2009 — Information Edge has been selected for the 2009 Best of San Leandro Award in the Information Retrieval Services category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).
The USCA “Best of Local Business” Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have [...]
Knowledge management (KM) and knowledge services (KS) have been around for awhile and are often touted as a total fix-all for organizational information overload. Therefore, they are often overlooked or seen as over-rated as a solution. I disagree.
Dave Snowden presented one of the best definitions I’ve seen:
The purpose of knowledge management is to provide support [...]
Over the past three years, the McKinsey Quarterly has tracked the rising adoption of Web 2.0 technologies, as well as the ways organizations are using them. This year, they sought to get a clear idea of whether companies are deriving measurable business benefits from their investments in the Web.
Last night, I was part of a panel that presented to a group of SLA members from the Sacramento area. The topic was Social Media at a Library Near You. The presenters included a law librarian, academic librarian, special librarian and an independent information professional (me). We covered blogging, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, LinkedIn and SLA’s [...]
On Wednesday evening, I attended a meeting of the San Francisco Bay Region Chapter of SLA to hear Ward Bushee, Executive Vice President and Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, speak about the state of the news media. He spoke frankly about how the last several years have been tumultuous as advertisers have been diversifying [...]
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