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Back and Forth
In the ongoing saga of paper vs. digital, results from recent studies add a whole new caveat to the issue. Digital learning materials are improving student performance in college, resulting in higher exam scores, better grades, and fewer students dropping out of classes. The American Association of Publishers brought this to our attention in their article,…
Read MoreThe Power of the Clouds
Organizations need to store and access files over time. With the growth of data, along with the added pressure to make records management user-friendly, many organizations have looked to the skies for alternatives. Information Week brought this news to us in their article, “No-Cloud’ Policies Will Nearly Disappear By 2020, Gartner Says.” Utilizing the power of the…
Read MoreWebinar Focusing on Search Experiences
An educational opportunity in the form of a webinar is available for November 29, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. The webinar is brought to you by KMWorld and is titled, “Expand Your Search Horizons: Next Generation Platforms Reset Assumptions and Results.” The gap is increasing daily between the search experience enjoyed on mobile devices and the search…
Read MoreScholarly Publishing Still Has Street Cred
Many critics believe that Facebook users have been influenced by “fake news” on Facebook in their election decisions. Whether you agree with them or with Mark Zuckerberg who adamantly contends this isn’t happening and that fake news is not very prevalent on Facebook, you have likely been a recipient of the trending news list fed by an algorithm. The…
Read MorePolitics and the Information Industry
The past few weeks in politics has been busy. One of the most improbable election results in modern America was the election of Donald Trump to the Office of the President of the United States. What has this meant to those in the information industry? Many companies have held off finalizing plans for 2017 until…
Read MoreFact or Fiction or…
My oldest child is almost four years old. I love this age because his imaginative play is in full swing and he is becoming a great story teller. I can also give him nonsensical answers to questions that I don’t know the answer to, or when I don’t think he is capable of handling the…
Read MoreUsing Digital Technology for Efficiency
Digital Science recently invested in a robotic cloud laboratory for life sciences. They brought this to our attention in their article, “Digital Science Invests in Transcriptic, the Robotic Laboratory in the Cloud.” Transcriptic utilizes its automated cellular and molecular biology platform to enable scalable life science research with flexibility and precision. The convenient and simple web interface…
Read MoreMaking the Most of Your Smart Data
“Data is not smart in its own right; rather, it’s only smart if it drives smart decisions,” says James Kobielus, of IBM. He delivered this prophetic wisdom in the keynote address at the DATAVERSITY® Smart Data Online 2016 Conference recently. DATAVERSITY brought this news to our attention in their article, “Big Data and Smart Data: Big…
Read MoreTechnology On The Go
Mobile devices have become the primary computing platform in business. Smartphones and tablets generate and store more electronic records than ever before. This presents a new challenge for storage, security and ultimately risk management in every size of organization. Consumer Electronics Net brought this information to us in their article, “Colligo Introduces Industry’s First Business Email App for…
Read MoreSemantic Technology in Healthcare
3M announced recently purchased Semfinder, a medical coding technology company from Switzerland. Embracing semantic coding technology could help push its electronic health record (EHR) system to market in other countries. This interesting news came to us from Twin Cities Business in their article, “3M Bolsters Its Health Care Division With Purchase Of Semfinder.” Semfinder is known…
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