Joitske Hulsebosch blogged about the potential of using blogs with communities of practices (Cop’s). Joitske gives four very useful ways in which blogs can support CoP’s but I just want to focus on one of them. Quoting Joitske:
“A weblog with summaries of discussions can be a repository for the community. An example is the weblog [...]
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In most organisations there is a plethora of text that is composed, written and sent out. Sometimes the text circulates and sometimes text comes back. We take text for granted because it is so ubiquitous. But in the digital world we can do more with text.
A recent blog post from Nancy White highlighted some techniques for making [...]
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I love attending good conferences. I love thinking about ideas and discussing them with interesting people. I love networking with people and connecting up with them after the conference is over. I love refining my thoughts and my notes on the way home.
And so it is with this in mind, albeit without a budget to attend, [...]
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I have been reflecting on some of the methods I have used in library and information services in the past to measure and report on success.
At a former workplace, we used software to measure online useage statistics and hit rates. From memory, it wasn’t sophisticated software but gave basic information. The library was consistently in the [...]
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I am really disappointed that I wasn’t able to get to Austin, Texas, this year to attend SXSW Interactive. I will get there one day (I hope) but in the meantime we are fortunate that the organisers provide podcasts of the presentations and discussions.
Check out this interview with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame - some [...]
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The latest issue of Information Research is online. A couple of the articles of particular interest to me were on household information practices and Flickr: a first look at user behaviour in the context of photography as serious leisure. The sample sizes used in both research articles were quite small but the articles did prompt my [...]
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The Reserve Bank of Australia announced an increase in interest rates this afternoon. Interest rates will rise by another .25% and the expectation is that another increase is likely in the near term.
Since interest rates are supposed to reflect the cost of capital, it is not surprising that high interest rates impact on the bottom [...]
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