Friday: July 1, 2005 11:57 AM
Are you managing your web site through the captured metrics? In the old days, you needed to pay your ASP extra for add-on products like Web Trends in order to track and manage your web environment. Today, most ASP vendors offer some form of metr...
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Tuesday: July 5, 2005 2:39 PM
Nice Review of my Keynote Address at TDWI this year.
R. Todd Stephens kicked off the second keynote of the conference. He titled it, An Information Odyssey: The Future of Business Intelligence. I have heard several analys...
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Tuesday: July 5, 2005 5:09 PM
Title: Globalization is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Recently, I had the opportunity to provide a metadata tutorial to an academic conference where the welcome speech touched on the impact of globalization. The speaker indic...
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Tuesday: July 5, 2005 5:23 PM
This sample chapter provides some exceptional thought provoking concepts for us as information workers, information architects, and information designers. The process and models for learning could and should have a tremendous impact to our day by...
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Tuesday: July 5, 2005 6:59 PM
Ever wonder how they would classify a unifying Information Architecture theory or the Metadata Theory of Relativity within the Nobel Prize classification of Physics, Economics, Chemistry, Literature, Medicine, or Peace. Not sure why this thought ...
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Thursday: July 7, 2005 8:07 PM
Guy Kawasaki (author of Rules For Revolutionaries) once quipped Never buy a computer from a company where the president can’t do the demo. Hmmmm. Never hire a Metadata Architecture that:
Friday: July 8, 2005 2:58 PM
Tom Peters and Marshall Goldsmith get it. Linus Torvalds and Tim Berners-Lee get it too. What they get is the understanding that we do not live in a world where value is derived by the scarcity of the product but rather the abundance. Open Sour...
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Monday: July 11, 2005 7:22 PM
Over the past few months, I have noticed a recent change in my search behavior. Instead of searching for Collaborative Computing as a simple text based search, I have been adding the FileType to the text field (Collaborative Computing filetype:pd...
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Friday: July 15, 2005 8:08 PM
Published article n DMReview on implementing a three tiered engagement model for metadata services based on the three modes of check in the grocery store.
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Wednesday: July 20, 2005 2:45 AM
Marcus Buckingham provides some interesting observations on building ones skills and career in the August issue of Fast Company. He points out that we should focus on our strengths and not our weaknesses which goes against the grain of most organ...
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Friday: July 22, 2005 7:57 PM
Have you noticed all of the job cuts in the last 30 days? The number of job cuts announced by U.S. employers in June rose to the highest monthly level since January 2004, according to a survey by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc...
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