'Social business has the potential to change the way we work, but for the most part it has not. The social enterprise is not yet here, though many talk about it, and confuse it with using social tools. For that, we can blame management. As many people, from W. Most management practices have changed little since the beginning of the millennium. MORE >>

'I work on interfaces used by college students to search for academic articles. Librarians buy these databases. Librarians happen to be wonderful clients to build products for because they always let you know what they don’t like. few years ago, my department started hearing complaints about the “save” icon on our interface. Now what? MORE >>

'There’s much talk about 21st Century skills , and rightly so: these skills are the necessary differentiators for individuals and organizations, going forward. If they’re important, how do we incorporate them into systems, and track them? You can’t do them in a vacuum, they only can be brought out in the context of other topics. MORE >>

'The media and business worlds love experts with strong opinions and the ability to explain them confidently and authoritatively. We hear them on TV and read them in newspapers and online every day. Yet a 20-year study shows that these are the very people who are least likely to be accurate in predicting what will happen in the future. Tschoegl et. MORE >>

'This is a presentation being made tomorrow by Bill Johnston at Dundee University, looking at the place of information literacy within the "digital" university. It continues on from the framework proposed by him and Sheila MacNeill initially at [link] Dundee symposium 31_may13 from Sheila MacNeill. MORE >>