Category Archives: Articles & Papers

The Expertise Squeeze?

Posted on December 12, 2017 by

2016 was the year of surprises. One of those surprises was Brexit. It was a surprise for David Cameron. It turns out that if you spin the referendum roulette wheel often enough, your luck will run out. Based on their … Continue reading →

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The Silicon Valley Consensus and what it means for information professionals

Posted on July 4, 2016 by

This is the 24th article that one or both of us has written for Online Currents over the course of six years. The first topic was “Enterprise collaborative bookmarking” – which was a hot topic with a number of start-ups … Continue reading →

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Building Competence for Knowledge Organisation

Posted on February 19, 2016 by

Download Building Competence for Knowledge Organisation As software eats the world and the internet transforms vast swathes of human activity, the field of knowledge organisation has not been immune. Traditional tools such as thesauri and controlled vocabularies are being augmented and … Continue reading →

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Yammered

Posted on January 26, 2016 by

Kai Riemer writers here about Microsoft’s axing of the Yammer Customer Success team. There’s two points worth discussing here. The Death of the Utopian Vision of Enterprise Social Kai writes about Yammer as less a software project than a mission … Continue reading →

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Innovation in Knowledge Organisation: A Conference Report

Posted on December 15, 2015 by

Innovation in Knowledge organisation was conference put on by Straits Knowledge (a Singapore-based knowledge management consultancy), PebbleRoad (a Singapore-based user experience design consultancy) and Synaptica (a global taxonomy software company).  The format of the conference was high energy – although … Continue reading →

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Cybersecurity for information professionals: The organisational dimension

Posted on August 10, 2015 by

Moore and Tall_v029_OLC_pt03 Our previous article on cybersecurity approached the issue from the perspective of the individual internet user and showed the breadth of issues that we face and the simple things we can do to make our online interactions … Continue reading →

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Cybersecurity for information professionals: The personal dimension

Posted on June 3, 2015 by

Download the article here One of the key themes of the articles we have written for this publication is that “software is eating the world”. To put it another way, many everyday activities and objections are being transformed by internet-based technologies. … Continue reading →

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