See the slide deck of a presentation I gave in July at the AALL conference: From Search to Insight: adding value where it counts , and other slide decks at BatesInfo.com/extras.  . Adding value info industryI was reflecting today on Stewart Brand's famous quote, first said in 1985: Information wants to be free. Is it distilled? MORE >>

I was pleased to be able to present in Canberra today, as part of World Usability Day. Classic UX techniques such as card sorting, tree testing and usability testing add a lot of value (all of which are described in Designing intranets: creating sites that work ). It can also deliver great business solutions that add strategic value. MORE >>

View more presentations from MIT Sloan Management Review. Comment: A clear vision of how social media creates value and supports strategy is seen as critical, no doubt because at this point very few organizations have formulated and communicated that vision well. Social Business: What Are Companies Really Doing? Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

Here are the 3 intents, presented in reverse order from the video. This attitude is entirely valid, but it only represents the first layer of value from curation. Perhaps the greatest value has been in helping me to develop my own expertise on the topics I write about. The First Intent of Curation is to get attention. MORE >>

October is a month on the road… and one stop is Lyon, France, where I’ll be presenting at the third edition of the fOSSa Conference taking place from October 26 to 28, 2011. What is fOSSa? The third edition will address in an open-minded style about. what tech people are actually doing and innovating? more information @ [link]. MORE >>