In a session about how to use blogs, podcasts, and newsgroups for competitive intelligence, Cynthia Cheng Correia covered the basics of competitive intelligence and how to evaluate and select blogs, podcasts, and newsgroups for competitive intelligence. With regards to blogs, she shared a cautionary tale about marketing people who set up blogs with the voice [...]
“On Friday, The A.P. issued a statement defending its action, saying it was going to challenge blog postings containing excerpts of A.P. articles ‘when we feel the use is more reproduction than reference, or when others are encouraged to cut and paste.’ An A.P. spokesman declined Friday to further explain the association
There’s been a lot of talk among the Special Libraries Association News Division about the state of our profession because of all the job cuts. Yesterday, another announcement on our discussion list brought bad news of workforce reductions that will impact some of our colleagues. We’ve been discussing the low turnout and missing many of [...]
Here’s an attempt at a list of what Derek Willis, a few intrepid volunteers, and I covered during the Technology Free-for-All session at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference. Derek: Derek posted more detailed notes. Yahoo! Pipes, a way to build customized XML feeds based on other feeds by adding search terms and other filters [...]
Debra Lyn Richardson has published “A Field Guide to FireFox 3: “The new features cover the full range from huge and game-changing to ones so subtle you may not notice them until you realize that using Firefox is just somehow easier and better. The range of improved features is similar — whole back-end systems have [...]
Vinton Cerf is the opening speaker at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference. A former senior vice president at MCI, with Robert Kahn, he co-designed the TCP/IP protocol and basic architecture of the Internet. Now, he’s Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. (What a fab title!) Charlie Rose is interviewing him.
Stephen Abram, president of the Special Libraries Association, just gave a special presidential citation to Gary Price for his work advancing our profession, with the ResourceShelf, all of his speaking engagements, and everything else he’s done for us. Stephen joked that as president, he can do all sorts of things he’s always wanted to do, [...]
The Special Libraries Association just gave Sabrina Pacifici, whom you might know from her online resources LLRX.com and beSpacific, a very prestigious award for her innovative use of technology. I’ve linked to resources she points out many times. Congratulations, Sabrina!
The best thing about which I’ve learned by coming to the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference is that SLA has an online space where members can play with and learn about all kinds of technology called the Innovation Laboratory. It’s just the thing we need to get our fingertips wet with the latest and greatest [...]
An ad campaign in The Wall Street Journal print edition supports special librarians and the Special Libraries Association. I’ve only seen a full-page ad from afar, so I can’t be more specific, but I figure some of you who have access to that paper might want to take a look. I believe there will be [...]
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