From Steven M. Cohen, Keeping Current, Advanced Internet Strategies to Meet Librarian Patron Needs. This book comprises five chapters, and focuses primarily on web-based current awareness strategies; resources for staying abreast of advances in search engines techniques and learning about new features; reviews of software for monitoring changes on websites; and how best to leverage… Continue Reading
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Evaluating Competitive Intelligence Software
Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software A Guide to Evaluating CI Technology, by France Bouthillier and Kathleen Shearer Foreword by Chun Wei Choo: “As commercial software products for Competitive Intelligence (CI) have begun to emerge and gain acceptance, potential users find themselves overly dependent on information supplied by the software makers. Reviews and surveys are published from… Continue Reading
Deep Linking, Ethical Considerations, and Fair Use
Copyright Issues Present Ongoing Dilemma: To Link or Not To Link? Digital Dilemmas: Ethical Issues for Online Media Professionals Continue Reading
Intelligent Information Gathering
Robin Good’s Mini Guide: Become a News G-d: How to be the first one to know everything about anything – Intelligent Information Agents Come of Age. This 102 page guide, in pdf, is available for purchase via Robin Good’s Sharewood Tidings website. Arranged in 14 short chapters, it evaluates a wide range of free and… Continue Reading
Web Searching Strategies for Health- Related Data
Magic Search Words-Health: Strategies and Search Tactics to Discover the Best of the Internet. See the book review here. Continue Reading
New Book on History of the Library
Library: An Unquiet History, by Matthew Battles. See the review in Newsday: “The charm of Battles’ book lies in its historical sweep and its appreciation for the browser’s delight. Cicero to Swift, Bacon to Borges – this is a book full of breezy learnedness. An earnest and passionate bibliophile, Battles traces the varied forms of… Continue Reading
New Book On Competitive Intelligence Research
Super Searchers on Competitive Intelligence, The Online and Offline Secrets of Top CI Researchers. From the press release: Companies operating in today’s unpredictable roller-coaster economy have increasingly turned to Competitive Intelligence (CI) as an effective means of building and maintaining an edge. This book presents leading CI researchers in their own words, revealing their secrets… Continue Reading
Business Statistics on the Web
Business Statistics on the Web: Find Them Fast-At Little or No Cost. “Statistics are a critical component of business and marketing plans, press releases, surveys, economic analyses, presentations, proposals, and more–yet good statistics are notoriously hard to find. In this practical guide, statistics guru Paula Berinstein shows readers how to use the Net to find… Continue Reading
Managing a Website
The Accidental Webmaster, by Julie M. Still, reference librarian at Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey. Continue Reading
Locating Personal Info Online
Naked in Cyberspace, How To Find Personal Information Online, 2nd Edition, reviewed by Stephen Lafferty. Continue Reading
Google Hacks Hits New York Times Best Seller List
Kudos to Tara Calishain and co-author Rael Dornfest, whose book, Google Hacks, is on the New York Times Paperback Bestseller List! Continue Reading
Are Wikis the Next Hot Web Tool?
Business Is Toying With a Web Tool puts the spotlight on an innovative, user friendly open-source tool called a wiki, used to create inter-related web pages. Not new to the scene (the technology was first used in 1995), but perhaps ready to be embraced along the lines of blogging applications, wiki technology offers many interesting… Continue Reading
