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.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If you are a visual learner as I am, then you’ll really appreciate Google Public Data Explorer. It makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don’t have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your finding with the available data sets at http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory.
“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 [...]
How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers
In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day.
Take a few minutes to read this short article in the New York Times “Small Business” section and see how you measure up. What the author describes can easily happen to small business owners and entrepreneurs who are busy running their businesses. It’s a reminder to look after ourselves.
http://tinyurl.com/yc7nz2d
We turn out the lights, power down the computer and leave the office, thinking we’ll be back the next business day. But what if we don’t come back — an accident or an emergency happens and we are the only one who knows where important business and other records are. Perhaps we’ve made no provisions [...]
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 [...]
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