I’m currently teaching a module to our MA Information Studies students on information retrieval. We spend quite a lot of time using mainstream databases such as Dialog and Factiva but we’re also looking at ways of retrieving information from the main social networking sites such as Twitter, blogs, LinkedIn and Facebook. While Dialog and Factiva are the best tools for many information requests, I’m increasingly struck by how much useful information there is on some of the social networks. I think information professionals will increasingly have to be aware of the value of these sites and be able to use some of the tools for extracting information. I’m looking forward to developing this module over the next several years as new tools for making sense of the social web emerge.
September 28, 2010
Enterprise 2.0 and Information Professionals – a perfect match?
Posted by Martin De Saulles under Social Media, Web 2.0 | Tags: enterprise2.0, information professionals, web2 |Comments Off
I’m doing some research around the use of social media and Web 2.0 in organisations. Andrew McAfee of the MIT Sloan School of Management has written extensively about this and coined the phrase Enterprise 2.0 for companies that are active adopters of these new technologies. He describes the key elements of Enterprise 2.0 via the acronym, SLATES: Search, Links, Authorship, Tags, Extensions, Signals. Dion Hinchcliffe of The Dachis Group has also written extensively about this area and I have adapted one of his graphics above to show the close match between the core skills of library and information professionals and the core elements required to effectively deploy Web 2.0 and social media in the organisation. It seems to me there is a huge opportunity here for information professionals to extend their influence within their organisations. Or am I being too simplistic?
April 28, 2010
AOSEC Presentation
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Slideshare presentation of my talk today at the AOSEC meeting in Winchester.
January 14, 2010
Technological change and the information professional
Posted by Martin De Saulles under Innovation, Web 2.0 | Tags: Innovation, web2 |[2] Comments
A piece I wrote for the CILIP Library and Information Gazette has just been published. In it, I look back at some of the key changes to the information world over the previous 10 years and anticipate what the future might hold for us.
