The True Cost of Open Source—There is Nothing Cheap about Free
The common reason for choosing open source is its price. What can possibly beat free? When you dig a little deeper you’ll see free doesn’t always equal free.
Do You Understand How Your Organization’s Technology Apps are Reviewed and Approved?
If you need to acquire new products or add-ons to existing ones as part of your KM program, you must understand your organization’s procurement process.
Is your ILS or KM Platform Multi-Faceted?
Search clustering is indeed an alternative to faceted searching, especially for unstructured data, however, there are important differences between the two.
What Does Successful Knowledge Management Look Like? 11 Key Attributes
Stan Garfield provides a glimpse into his new book and shares the description and attributes of a knowledge ecosystem.
Do You Deliver Content via Your Organization’s Website? Upward Mobility is Key!
With recent changes to Google’s search algorithm, librarians and knowledge managers need to ensure their sites are mobile friendly in order to be found easier.
Knowledge Management—as Easy as Falling off a Bike?
In KM, knowledge is often defined as either explicit or tacit. Collaboration is critical for KM and explicit knowledge is a critical part of your KM ecosystem.
Google’s Mobile-First Indexing Strategy is Critical to Your Organization’s Web Presence
Google’s new mobile-first will give preferential search rankings to mobile-friendly sites. Learn how this will impact your organization’s web presence.
Don’t Let HiPPOs Define Your KM Strategy
Allowing HiPPOs (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion) in organizations have complete control of KM strategy could result in project failure.
IT Jujutsu and the Information Professional
When it comes to KM & ILS systems, forging the best relationship with IT, information professionals have to practice what I call “IT Jujutsu.”
The IT Totem Pole and the Information Professional
When it comes to information/knowledge systems working with IT is inevitable. Here are some thoughts on how to make that relationship work to your advantage.
What’s New at Lucidea Labs?
Wanna know what’s new at Lucidea Labs? We recently launched a project to make our software more accessible to people with disabilities.
Don’t Let Your Information Resources Staff Fly Blind
KM professionals like pilots need instruments to do their job. Here are four tools that can help–some are free and others deliver benefits beyond their cost.
3 Simple Steps for Avoiding Software Purchasing Heartburn
When purchasing software, avoid the heartburn and save your organization hundreds of human hours, and dollars, with these 3 simple steps.
Good Design, Great Strategy and the Wow Factor
Software that enables designers to focus on XD (or Experience Design) can create a “wow factor” in their applications that end users crave.
Your Audience is… Changing! (Part 2)
The way people engage with information is changing and the way they finding that it matters more than what industry veterans believe.
Your Audience is… Changing! (Part 1)
The way people engage with information is changing and the way they finding that it matters more than what industry veterans believe.
Is Faceted Search the Same as Search Clustering? Are They Both Guided Navigation?
There are notable differences in the benefits users can derive when using faceted search, which requires data preparation, and search clustering, which works with unstructured data.
Preparing for The Future of KM, or Running Toward Failure?
Article discusses the value of cataloging all knowledge assets first in a KM project or focusing on just a subset to get early wins quickly.
Are You Getting What You Need from Your Knowledge Portal?
Knowledge should enable users to find information and knowledge quickly and efficiently and they should facilitate the ongoing capture of it.
Integration: The Holistic Approach to Knowledge Delivery
KM solutions need to integrate into an organizations existing systems and not dictate how people work.
But isn’t SharePoint a KM application?
Isn’t SharePoint a KM application? It depends. Let me explain.
If Only HP Knew What HP Knows
HP’s CEO knows that if the skills and knowledge staff could be tapped, it would be transformative and anyone could easily discover what’s been done by whom and exactly how.