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ANECDOTE MARCH 29, 2011 Curing story blindness: building essential story skills For the past two years Shawn and I have deliberately ignored Dave Snowden's regular pot-shots at our work and maintained the civility that we think is both appropriate and necessary when operating in such a complementary and emerging space. It hasn't been easy to swallow at times. In his most recent instalment Dave takes thestorytest to task. | | NANCY WHITE MARCH 29, 2011  Goodbye Sweet Dad William (Bill) A. Wright. Born January 26, 1929 in San Leandro, CA; died peacefully March 24, 2011 after a short illness. Thanks. culture of love | LIBRARIAN OF FORTUNE MARCH 29, 2011 Who judges what "good" search results are? I had a great conversation with Chris Sherman at Web Search University about search results, which brought up to me an enormous disconnect between SEO and info pro communities. Gee, what a surprise!). He and I were comparing Google results for a particular search technique. Of the first 10 results, the second and sixth hits were spot on. | | | | | | | |
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KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK | TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2011  What I do with my smartphone (iPhone) today
A couple years ago, I wrote about my experience with my first smartphone (an HTC 8925, or the AT&T Tilt), which ran the Windows Mobile operating system. As it was my first smartphone, I was more-or-less happy with it, but it became more and more frustrating to use as that operating system was hopelessly out of date. And some actual utility. MORE >> -
 Access to government information
On 2 May 2011, the National Forum on Information Literacy will host, at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C., USA, a symposium on Access to government information , including transparency and Wikileaks. Dr Li Wang, Learning Services Manager at the University of Auckland Library, New Zealand, will also be a lunchtime speaker. MORE >> -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2011  yaM Wants to Make Meetings More Efficient
yaM (yet another meeting) is a collaborative online tools that aims to streamline the process and so make meetings more efficient. yaM is designed to be used before, during and after the meeting. Prior to the meeting, the organizer can set up a schedule and agenda and distribute that to the attendees. Documents and drawings. Whiteboard. Voting. MORE >> -
PORTALS AND KM | TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2011 The Four to Five Year Tenure for CIOs
Patrick Thibodeau recently wrote an interesting piece for ComputerWorld, CIOs aren't CIOs for long. He talked about the relative sort tenure for CIOs and conveyed as assessment by Frank Petersmark, CIO of Amerisure Mutual Insurance: “The first year as CIO is the honeymoon. Down from four years and seven months in 2008. MORE >> -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2011  Apperian Gets $9.5M Funding to Tap Enterprise Mobility Boom
Apperian, a Boston, Ma.-based based maker of a platform that helps companies to build, deploy and control enterprise mobile apps, today announced it has closed $9.5 million in VC funding from North Bridge Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ iFund, CommonAngels and LaunchCapital. MORE >>
- Contingent Workers: Creative Solution or Harmful Crutch? WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2011
- netTALK Duo: Cheap VoIP Calls, No PC Required WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2011
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