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| | PORTALS AND KM SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 “Big Data” vs. “Big Content” Complementary Sides of Information Overload Information Management published a useful article, Big Data is Scaling BI and Analytics , on how the information overload is changing the way organizations use business intelligence and analytics. They added that a zettabyte is roughly the size of 125 billion 8GB iPods fully loaded. There is still some fuzziness on the definition of big data. | | CLARK QUINN SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 Cognitive Task Analysis While I argue strongly for stepping away more frequently from formally structured learning, not least because we overuse it, there are times when it is crucial. As naysayers of informal learning like to point out, you wouldn’t want your pilot or heart surgeon to have picked up the task by reading a book. That’s another layer. | | | | | | | |
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WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011  Forrester: More than half of enterprises support consumer phones
Enterprises that never expected to support personal consumer devices are slowly changing their minds, with 59 percent now supporting employee-owned smartphones in various ways; something unheard of when I worked in I.T. just a handful of years ago. Given the Microsoft Office, Sharepoint and Exchange hooks, it seems a natural fit for the enterprise. MORE >> -
INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011  The revised SCONUL 7 Pillars: session in Second Life
When: 21st September 2011, 12 noon SL time (8pm UK time, see [link] for times elsewhere) Where: Infolit iSchool, in the virtual world, Second Life (SL). You need a SL avatar and the SL browser installed on your computer, to participate. Revised copies of the 3D version of the SCONUL 7 Pillars will also be made available. events MORE >> -
THE BAMBOO PROJECT BLOG | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011  The Best Way to Assess Your Priorities
When I teach career workshops, one of the things we talk about is our values--what is important to us in our work and personal lives? Participants will often tell me that family and friends are at the top of their priority list, along with opportunities for growth and development and work that has an impact. . Not much of a match there. . career MORE >> -
INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011  LILAC cfp opens
The call for papers for the LILAC 2012 conference is open. This is the major information literacy conference in the UK, and it will take place 11-13 April 2012 in Glasgow, Scotland. The call for papers will close at 5pm on 11th November. Proposals can be for: short or long papers, symposia, Teachmeet presentations, posters. cfp events MORE >> -
HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 We are (still) the solution to the problem
Tweet In 2008 (just before the financial crisis), Jay Cross noted many dysfunctional workplace practices in a survey of 237 respondents worldwide. Is this still the state of the workplace? working in organizations that are slow to change. Does this resemble an organization you work for, or work with? However, that situation may not last forever. MORE >>
- Info-entrepreneur survey report is out! LIBRARIAN OF FORTUNE | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
- Enterprise strata isn't as firm as it appears COLLABORATION 2.0 | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
- Help people see KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
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