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Online Information Conference 2007

The following blog items abstract some contributions to the Online Information Conference 2007, held in London December 4-6 (programme) (conference themes) Pictures of this top event in the Online Industry.

The Online Information Conference is the world's no. 1 conference for the information industry. The 2007 conference attracted 900 delegates from over 43 countries, providing a forum dedicated to learning, debate, professional development, technology reviews and assessments, expert discussion as well as case-study presentations and the sharing of research results and opinion.

The Online Information Special includes an interview with keynote speaker Jimmy Wales (founder Wikipedia)

Conference Proceedings are available at the conference organization

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Intranet 2.0 maturity

Online Information 2007: Jane McConnell Netstrategy/JMC, France: Intranet 2.0 maturity: 2007 Global intranet Survey results. 2.0 tools are slowly entering the intranet landscape.

Many organisations are experimenting, but few feel they are currently using 2.0 tools in an optimised way, meaning fully integrated into the way of working.

The most widely spread tools are subscription services, wikis and internal blogs. However even the least widely used such as virtual worlds, podcasts, prediction markets and mashups are entering the enterprise internal landscape, says McConnell

The more the intranet becomes 'the way of working', the higher the integration of 2.0 tools. By far, the primary barrier is the lack of appropriate organisational culture.

Stephen Dale, dir. Semantix UK 'Collaboration and communities: communities of practice in local government' (presentation) 'Creating blogs is an obvious example of a way in which communications can be improved through social media, innovative use of online video and will surely follow as another means of getting the message across in a useful and interactive way. Citizens will be able to vote on online petitions to voice their views on important local issues"

Consultations should be run through wikis, enabling anyone with interest to have their say and to contribute. An important part of this culture change will be giving local government officers the responsibility for engaging with online social networks and becoming an integral part of the social network as opposed to being part of an unresponsive and faceless regulatory authority.

Also see Dale's profile http://tinyurl.com/yt9qek and his blog Dissident http://dissident.typepad.com/

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Competences of The Librarian 2.0

Stressing the competences the information specialist of tomorrow Stephen Abraham, vice president of Innovation,SrsiDynix perceives the Librarian 2.0 as:

(SrsiDynix is known as 'global leader in strategic technology solutions ; press releases also notice on SrsiDynix website link to NewsOnFeeds a review of 'Webbased-(news)aggregators')

* Striving to understand the power of the web 2.0 opportunities;

* Learning the major tools of web and Lib 2.0;

* Combining e-resources and print formats seamlessly; Is device independent and uses and delivers to everything from laptops to PDAs to iPods

* Develops targeted federated search and adopts the OpenURL standard; Connects people and technology and information in context;

* Doesn't shy away from non-traditional cataloguing and classification and chooses tagging, tag clouds, folksonomies and user-driven descr.and classifications whee appropriate;

* Embraces non-textual information and t power of pictures, moving images, sight and sound.

* Understands the 'long tail' and leverages power of old and new content. Sees t potential in using content sources like the Open Content Alliance, Google Book Search and OpenWorldCat.

* Connects users to expert discussions, conversations and communities of practice, and participates there as well. Uses t latest tools of communication (such as Skype) to connect content, expertise, information coaching and people.

* Uses and develops advanced social networks to enterprise advantage. Connects with everyone using their communication mode of choice telephone,Skype,IM,SMS,texting,email,virtual reference, and so on.

* Encourages user driven metadata and user-developed content & commentary

* Mines usage data for insights into user bevours. Understands t wisdom of crowds and t emerging roles and impacts of t blogosphere, web syndication and wikisphere.

First and foremost, librarians 2.0 understands users at a deep level.

Concerning the professional development of librairians Stephen Abram (SirsiDynix, USA) concluded: It is essential we start preparing to become librarian 2.0 now. (..) We have the ability, insight and knowledge to influence the creation of this new dynamic - and to guarantee the future of our profession Librarian 2.0 – now

References

Concerning Library 2.0 also see Stephens Lighthouse Predictions f 2008 http://stephenslighthouse.s...

A review of more articles and presentations by Stephen Abram http://tinyurl.com/2ndbjv Check Abram's presentation, titled: 'The Social Library 2.0' (nov. 2006)

Nicholas Bombourg, Benjamin Carpano and Christine Pellat of Ubiquick SAS, France "From open access content to quality business information: how web 3.0 will help information professionals to be more efficient"

"In a more and more competitive business environment, campanies need: to find precise, recent and validated industry information and to access it as quickly as possible".

"The amount of open access industry information published by public and authoritative sources has been exploding for serveral years. The paper of Bombour, Carpano and Pellat presents strategies and tools for easily identifying and accessing valuable open access content to serve business research needs"

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