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Mobile everything

This article provides an overview on recent developments in mobile computing. It begins by outlining current mobile usage trends in Australia and the range of mobile technologies currently on the market. It then discusses different options for information presentation via mobile devices, responsive web … Continue reading

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Big data for information managers

This article explores the elements of Big Data such as the increasing production of machine readable data, tools for its storage and techniques for its analysis. The implications of Big Data for different sectors are discussed. The implications for information … Continue reading

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Content Management Interoperability Services

Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is an emerging standard that allows compliant Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems to share documents. This article discusses the reasons for the emergence of CMIS and outlines some of the key elements of the standard. … Continue reading

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Semantic Web – Slight Return

The people at The Indexer were so taken with an article I had written on the semantic web that they wanted to reprint it. So after much wrangling with the original publisher, an agreement was brokered and republished it was. … Continue reading

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What Do We Do About Email? Part 2

Email is a common organisational communications and collaboration tool but its ubiquity is being called into question. The email reduction efforts of French IT services company Atos, Australian Bureau of Statistics, smaller companies like Klick and Notebook and individuals such … Continue reading

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What do we do about email? Part 1: User research

No one still uses email do they? It’s soooo last century. Isn’t everyone on Facebook or Twitter or whatever the new new thing is? Well, no. Email is still important. At a global scale its proliferation is astounding. Download the … Continue reading

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We Need To Talk About Email

About nine months ago, I did a short bit of consulting work around information management that made me revisit my thoughts on email. Previous to this, I had firmly believed that email could be replaced with other collaboration tools. This … Continue reading

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Folksonomies & Taxonomies @ ANZSI 2011

This presentation is a bit of a mixed bag and falls roughly into thirds: The first third looks at folksonomies. It steals liberally from Thomas Vander Wal and the work of others (see previous articles). It is my impression that … Continue reading

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Metadata 2011 – Australian Taxonomy Survey

This is part of presentation given at Metadata 2011 back in May. It is mostly based on this article. The rest of the presentation drew on this article and video but with more references to Star Trek*. *Such as the Spock/Bones … Continue reading

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Successfully managing corporate information environments

I have worked with corporate information for over a decade and yet there is one thing that never ceases to amaze me. As an employee or a consultant, I will first enter the building that houses the company, government department … Continue reading

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