Today I gave two talks for the staff of Harvard Business School’s Baker Library. One of the audience members finally asked me to demonstrate how to do a blog post, so I’m posting the link to my presentation in front of her.
Shimon’s comment the other night provides a nice segue into a post I’ve been mulling for a while, but haven’t had the time to write. A few weeks ago, some librarians and I were talking about the premise of whether “it’s okay” for people in an organization besides the librarian to do the searching. Some [...]
A few days ago, Shimon, a programmer and developer, wrote about the importance of documentation. Many times during a project, I do not have time to create documentation for what I’m doing. Yesterday, I used a database I created over a year ago for the first time perhaps since I created it. I designed it [...]
Jessica Baumgart
Harvard University’s Office of News and Public Affairs
j’s scratchpad
Friday, June 25, 2004
This presentation is on the Web at: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/stories/storyReader$1305.
The World as a Blog
Librarians should care about blogs for at least two big reasons: blogs are a great communication tool for both internal and external purposes and blogs are sources of information.
I. What [...]
One of my beat areas, if you will, is numbers and statistics related to my employer. Most of the sources I use are online, but if you don’t know where to go to find the reports, they’re very difficult to find. Navigating the world of institutional data and institutional research is not easy, especially for [...]
When I mentioned the RSS(sm): Rich Site Services site last week, I failed to mention the bibliography of articles and presentations about RSS. It includes pieces by such notables as Bob Stepno, Jenny Levine, and Steven Cohen.
from that secret blog for an ASIST panel on blogging and seen on several other blogs, too
(It seems all [...]
(Gee, aren’t I a brain-washed member of the cult.)
Shimon makes an interesting analogy in his comment to my post about some research findings indicating billions of corporate dollars are wasted on Internet searches. I don’t think the analogy is appropriate based on the situation outlined in the article.
How common is it for someone to [...]
A committee I’m involved in is trying to use a wiki to enhance communication between meetings. A wiki is a Web site with special software that enables anyone to edit it in a Web browser. Users don’t need to know HTML, but wikis have their own special syntax and coding. Wikipedia is an example of [...]
(which should more than make up a few librarians’ salaries)
A FIND/SVP survey discovered 84% of business executives think using a typical Web search engine takes longer than it should because of poor search results.
The survey results linked above mention some other executive search habits, but it doesn’t discuss their searching habits (i.e. are they [...]
(If only!)
This article gives a quick look at the movement in corporations to allow employees to blog. It interviews two bloggers I’ve met through the Berkman Center’s blog group: Dave Winer and David Weinberger.