By Melody Smith|June 20th, 20122012-06-19T21:26:58-04:00
A new software for human resources, project, task, and scheduling management has been launched for small or large companies. The new semYOU Cloud Office is a complete software infrastructure for organizations to work globally and collaborate with different partners worldwide.
By Melody Smith|June 19th, 20122012-06-18T23:11:01-04:00
It seems more and more local governments are digitizing old census records lately. The genealogy hobby has grown exponentially with the unlimited access the Internet provides so it appears that historical societies, libraries and city halls are responding to the increase in requests.
By Melody Smith|June 19th, 20122012-06-18T23:09:26-04:00
At the beginning of the year, one author predicted that 2012 would be the year of the semantic web. At the half-way point he is revisiting that to see where those predictions stand now.
By Melody Smith|June 19th, 20122012-06-18T23:07:23-04:00
The Florida International University library has acquired the Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza collection and is in the process of digitizing the collection to be made available through the library's website.
By Melody Smith|June 18th, 20122012-07-22T19:39:52-04:00
A new and powerful tool is headed our way. I believe it has the potential to change the way we interact with researchers, contributors and authors in general. I have already reported on the Contributor ID meeting in Boston mid-May. One of the main reasons for the timing of that meeting was the ORCID Outreach meeting to be held at the Microsoft office next to MIT in Cambridge. The aim of ORCID is to "solve the name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a registry of persistent unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID, other ID schemes, and research objects such as publications, grants, and patents."
By Melody Smith|June 18th, 20122012-06-17T22:17:19-04:00
The Department for Education began a process towards knowledge management several years ago. An information audit led to a revamp of systems and approaches […]
By Melody Smith|June 15th, 20122012-06-14T23:24:15-04:00
Technology continues to amaze us. Remember when a fax machine impressed us? Now they are teaching computers to analyze and understand the real world, or at least they are trying.
By Melody Smith|June 15th, 20122012-06-14T23:22:38-04:00
The Center for Health and Human Services recently announced the new deadline for the ICD-10 coding classification transition was being postponed to October 1, 2014. Healthcare providers are struggling to meet the requirements without breaking the bank. It is easy to see the dollars and more dollars and more dollars being spent (sorry I derailed), but the return on investment is much more ambiguous.
By Melody Smith|June 15th, 20122012-06-14T23:20:33-04:00
Drupal combines their business workflow tools seamlessly with a suite of core modules like of, such as taxonomy and roles. Their tutorial helps users learn how to create a corporate collaborative authoring system without having to resort to writing PHP code.
By Melody Smith|June 14th, 20122012-06-13T23:13:22-04:00
History has tried to tell us that paying for search rankings is a very bad thing. However, it is interesting that Google has begun to accept payments for inclusion in some of its newest search products. This was evident recently with its Google Hotel Finder and Google Flight Search, where Google looks to be taking some kind of payment in order to be included in the results. This is also evident with Google Advisor, which offers links to financial services and products.
