by Martin White | May 4, 2022 | Information Management, Reviews, Search
How do you review a book that runs to almost 900 pages? Answers on a pack of postcards please! Two books sparked my interest in the history of information. The first was A History of Online Information Services 1963-1976 by Bourne and Hahn which provides a vast amount...
by Martin White | Feb 2, 2022 | Collaboration, Digital workplace, Intranets, Reviews
Over the last six years ClearBox Consulting has published a range of reports which present detailed profiles of SharePoint-based and independent intranet vendors and employee communication applications. The range, depth and authority of these reports is matched only...
by Martin White | Jan 17, 2022 | Information Management, Reviews, Search
Over the last few weeks I have enjoyed reading The Babel Message – A Love Letter by Keith Kahn-Harris. The book is the outcome of the author’s research into the way in which the warning message that accompanies purchases of Kinder Surprise Eggs is translated...
by Martin White | Dec 1, 2021 | Conferences, Reviews, Search
Looking back at the ten papers and two panel discussions at the BCS IRSG Search Solutions 2021 conference last week there was a very strong theme that emerged with most of the papers providing a set of variations. The theme at its most basic was that ‘one size does...
by Martin White | Oct 25, 2021 | Information Management, Reviews
What a superb title! It makes you smile before you even open the book. At last there is a book that focuses on data and content quality and does so in a very practical way. Susan Walsh (aka The Classification Guru) is an information entrepreneur who somewhat...
by Martin White | May 18, 2021 | Digital workplace, Intranets, Reviews
For two decades my first blog post of the year has been a review of the Intranet Design Annual from the Nielsen Norman Group. This year NNGroup were not able to release the Annual until mid-April, at which time the 101Mb/636pp report crept into my email box. A draft...
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