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Martin White. Virtual Teams: Benefits & Challenges

Chris Armstrong — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:37:55 +0000

Background to a Factsheet

I recently updated all of my ‘success factors’ briefing papers for the UKeiG web site and this year added one on virtual team management. Although the current language of business speaks of ‘collaboration’ it does not speak of ‘virtual collaboration’ but of virtual teams. This is useful because not all teams work in a collaborative way with a common cause.

Karen Blakeman. Anything but Google: Top Tips

Chris Armstrong — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:50:50 +0000

From the Google alternatives workshop

The Google alternatives workshop is a regular on the UKeiG training calendar. We don’t guarantee that you will be weaned off Google by the end of the day but we do try and highlight other search engines and tools that might be better for certain types of information. At the end of the workshops the participants pull together a list of Top Tips. These could be a tool or website they have just discovered, a search command, or a general approach or strategy to searching.

Delphine Dallison: SCONUL Summer Conference & AGM 2014

Chris Armstrong — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:55:34 +0000

Conference report

On the 26^th of June, thanks to a generous UKeiG grant, I was able to attend one day of the SCONUL Summer Conference taking place in Glasgow. The theme of the conference was The Open Library: Collections, Collaborations and Challenges, a very topical and sometimes controversial topic in library and publishing circles at the moment.

Online.

Chris Armstrong — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:58:40 +0000

Joy Cadwallader

Please send your submissions for the next edition to jrc@aber.ac.uk

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Intranets.

Chris Armstrong — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:06:27 +0000

Dion Lindsay

UX for intranets

Considerations of user experience have been part of intranet design since the beginning, though naturally it has played a bigger part since we moved on from intranets-as-mere-repositories-of-shared- stable-information[1].

Although the expression seems tautological (who wouldn’t design an intranet with the end-users’ experience in mind?), as usual there’s a lot more to it.

Cloud Computing.

Chris Armstrong — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:08:27 +0000

Martin De Saulles

I’ve been struggling with this column over the past couple of months but not been quite sure why. There are plenty of stories about cloud computing in the news with new services being launched, companies being taken over and massive investments being made in infrastructure. IBM, for example, announced a few days ago that it was investing almost £1 billion in expanding its data centres around the world and Google spent over $3 billion buying Nest, a maker of internet-connected devices such as thermostats and smoke alarms. IBM’s investments reinforces the seemingly unstoppab

Information Management.

Chris Armstrong — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:10:31 +0000

Martin White.

Without any doubt the most fascinating consulting assignment of my career was developing an intranet strategy for the International Monetary Fund. My team worked through a mass of paperwork starting at lunch on Sunday and did not finish until late in the evening. On Monday we started work on the project and were shown to our project office, the first and only time that I have had a project office for an assignment. The day was full of introductions and briefings, and all went well.

Book Review: Marketing with Social Media

Chris Armstrong — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:12:16 +0000

Margaret Katny

There are undoubtedly many books on using social media technologies to market a service but few that cover several technologies in one guide. This step-by-step guide introduces different technologies and shows the reader how to make use of them to market a library service.

New & Forthcoming Books.

Chris Armstrong — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:15:10 +0000

For review

The following selection of published and forthcoming books are relevant to members’ interests. Please email the editor if you are interested in reviewing one or more of them. Similarly, if you are aware of any publications that you feel would be of interest to eLucidate readers, please alert us or consider a review.

Press Releases.

Chris Armstrong — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:27:59 +0000

From UKeiG

UKeiG to sponsor place at CILIP New Professionals Day 2014

About eLucidate.

Chris Armstrong — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:30:09 +0000

Writing for UKeiG

eLucidate is the journal of the UK Electronic Information Group. It is usually published four times each year, in February, April, September and November. It aim is to keep members up to date with developments in the digital information environment, as they affect professionals. The magazine is provided free to UKeiG members.

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