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Challenging Times for Marketing
Ready to launch your next marketing campaign and a pandemic starts spreading across the globe. Not the best of circumstances, but never fear. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Marketing Amidst a Pandemic.” Marketing is vital even in this unprecedented time we are living in. The approach shouldn’t change…
Read MoreTaxonomy of the K-9 Persuasion
If you are a frequent reader of this blog you know I like unique taxonomies. You also should know that I love dogs. So this particular taxonomy is right up my alley. The Ringer brought us this unique taxonomy in their article, “A Taxonomy of Movie Dogs.” There are many types of dogs and many…
Read MoreDigitization and Data
Digitization is necessary if an organization wants to move to the next level of production and efficiency. Manual processes need to be converted into digital workflows and move them into the cloud. CDO Trends brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Rebooting Data Management for the Digital Era.” Digitization helps your business grow at…
Read MoreSemantic Questions and Answers
Artificial intelligence (AI) includes intelligent devices that are capable of thought and also respond with human-like action and articulation. Semantic search is an information searching method that understands the customer’s intent as well as the contextual definition of a search question, and it is powered by AI. This interesting topic came to us from Customer Think in their…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. and Data Conversion Laboratory Align Technology Solutions to Support Taxonomy Development and Content Structure
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in digital data organization, and Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), an industry leader in structured data and content transformations, today announce a new partnership for content-centric organizations. Together, DCL and Access Innovations provide a complete solution to improve the organization, delivery, and retrieval of content across the content supply chain. “This…
Read MoreHow AI Impacts the Workforce
Artificial intelligence (AI) has incorporated itself into our workplaces and our homes. Our daily lives have fundamentally changed. This interesting topic came to us from Harvard Business Review in their article, “AI Is Changing Work — and Leaders Need to Adapt.” This causes concern among some. AI is an entirely new kind of technology, one that has…
Read MoreFree Webinar Address Metadata
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is offering a free webinar titled, “The Metadata Power Hour.” In very practical ways, metadata has different implications for different roles in scholarly communications and like so many topics close to us, it can be hard to sift through the available information to find out what…
Read MoreTaxonomy of Socialism
Before we get started, let me preface by saying this is not a political post. This is a post about taxonomies. If you are a frequent reader, you know I like finding unique examples of how solid taxonomies (whether they are truly scientific or just for fun) help classify and identify a subject matter. This…
Read MoreVirtual Webinar for Open Access Publishing
The Society for Scholarly Publishing is offering a virtual event titled, “Seeking Sustainability: Publishing Models for an Open Access Age”. This event is scheduled for April 2, 2020 at 10:00-12:00 pm ET. In this new and strange time of social distancing due to the COVID-19 outbreak, this event might just be what the doctor ordered. Library consortia…
Read MoreInformation Management and COVID-19
COVID-19 is the one and only topic during this heightened time of anxiety and information management. As higher education institutions in the United States began to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by moving classes online, academic librarians found themselves in need of real-time information — not only about their own institution’s practices, but also how…
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