Convenience is Strategy
Recently Facebook announced it was integrating food delivery in its app, allowing users to order delivery without actually logging out of Facebook. On the footsteps of that announcement, Google followed suit with an update that allows users to order food delivery directly through Google Maps. This interesting information came to us from CNBC in their article,…
Read MoreFads and Fates
I have long wondered about the latest trend of having girl in the title of bestsellers. I assumed after I read Gone Girl that authors and publishers were just riding on the coattails of its success. Apparently I wasn’t alone in my query. Five Thirty Eight brought this interesting information to us in their article,…
Read MoreMetadata in Advertising
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has introduced the industry’s first standard for dynamic digital advertising. This interesting information came to us from Ad Exchanger in their article, “The IAB’s Dynamic Ad Standard Will Bridge The Divide Between Data And Creativity.” The IAB Dynamic Content Ad Standard provides a detailed schema for how constituents across the digital ad…
Read MoreProtection from Cyber Attacks
Data security is an ongoing concern regardless of what line of business you are in. Healthcare has faced recent cyber attacks using ransomware and now a series of data breaches from overseas are spurring concerns that hackers could manipulate elections in the United States. This was brought to our attention by The Hill in their article, “Election fraud feared…
Read MoreThe Cost of Data Breaches
Data breaches are unfortunately becoming so common that the shock and alarm is fading away. It is even difficult to remember them all. Infamous breaches like the ones at Target and Sony become almost forgettable when confronted with the recently disclosed half-billion accounts compromised at Yahoo in 2014. Network World brought this news to us in their article,…
Read MoreNew Partnership Improves Findability
ScienceOpen has announced a new partnership with the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). STM Publishing News brought this information to us in their article, “ScienceOpen partners with the Open Library of Humanities to open up the context of HSS research.” ScienceOpen is a next-generation research discovery platform, and the OLH is a charitable organization dedicated to supporting…
Read MoreNavigating Libraries Shouldn’t Be This Hard
In December of 2015 I took a break from business meetings and conferences and went over to visit the King’s Library at the British Museum. I had not been there in a while, but I knew that the 60,000 book collection of King George III was moved there in 1823. It is in a beautiful…
Read MoreNFAIS Webinar Addresses Impact
The next webinar in the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Webinar series is December 1, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. (EST). This webinar is titled, “Measuring Scholarly Impact: Can One Size Fit All?” With more than two million research articles published annually in authoritative, respected scholarly journals, it can be a challenge to discern which articles to…
Read MoreFinding Digital
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Boopsie, Inc. have extended their partnership to integrate Flipster®, EBSCO’s digital magazine solution, into the Boopsie mobile platform. EBSCO Information Services brought this news to us in their release, “Flipster® and Boopsie Integration Helps Libraries Provide More Options to Access Digital Magazines.” This integration enables libraries to provide library users with…
Read MoreAccess Innovations is Diamond Sponsor of KMWorld 2016
KMWorld 2016 is just a few week away. In Washington D.C. on November 14-17, 2016, chief information officers, information professionals, content managers, and knowledge architects will gather. This year’s theme is Hacking KM: People, Processes, & Technologies. Access Innovations is proud to be a diamond sponsor of KMWorld 2016 this year. It is a great opportunity to…
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