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What’s Ahead for 2017?
It is not really possible to say what will happen for everyone everywhere, but we can predict within our own spheres of influence. Semantic Cross Searching as a Service Employees are the most valuable assets in any organization. The 1994 Chen study determined that 24% of employee time was spent looking for information. In 2016…
Read MoreWorldwide Business with kathy ireland® Interviews Access Innovations and Discusses Their Unique Solution for Finding Relevant Information Quickly and Easily
Tune in to Bloomberg International on Sunday, January 29, 2017. Access Innovations President Marjorie M.K. Hlava and Vice President of Marketing and Communications Heather Kotula are featured on the award-winning, global TV show, Worldwide Business with kathy ireland®. The segment’s topic is how businesses can make their data more searchable and more easily found. Access Innovations is…
Read MoreHashtag This
A historian, a librarian and a snowman walked into a bar. What? You have heard this one already? Recently, the American Historical Association (AHA) held its annual conference in Denver, Colorado. The conference started on a Thursday, just like the snow and freezing temperatures. The attendees were from all around the world and not all…
Read MoreYear In Review
It’s that time of year where we look back on the previous year sometimes with joy and laughter, other times with sorrow and angst. Then we follow it up with starting over, a renewal in the new year, with new excitement, hopes and dreams. Here are some of the top 2016 lists gathered from across…
Read MoreZzzzzz…
Each one of us spends about one-third of our life asleep. Look at it this way, by the time you’re 75, you will have spent 25 years sleeping. Sleep is part of the life of all higher vertebrates, a critical part. Suppressing sleep for an extended period has dramatic effects on our physiological equilibrium. This…
Read MoreSearch Games
When I was a kid I used to love playing Mad Libs. My friends and I would work tirelessly to come up with the funniest nonsensical stories. While not quite as cognitive as Mad Libs, but still entertaining, are the various games going around social media involving predictive text. One game is a weird version…
Read MoreTraditions
Tradition. Every time I hear this word, the scene from Fiddler on the Roof pops into my head. “You may ask how did these traditions start? I’ll tell you, I don’t know, but it’s tradition!” There are so many traditions and yet many don’t know where they come from. Some start out as one thing,…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Announces DHUG 2017 Registration Open
Access Innovations, Inc., is pleased to announce that the agenda for the 2017 Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) is posted and the meeting is open for registration. Held each February in Albuquerque, New Mexico, DHUG brings together current and prospective users of the Data Harmony software to present case studies, network, and share ideas. DHUG…
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Think about the many ways in which we can search the web. First, there are various browsers to choose from: Chrome, FireFox, or Internet Explorer, for example. Then, you have search engine such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Then, after you choose those, you can search using Booleans or keywords. The rise in social media,…
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…
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