Archive for the ‘Information management’ Category

The DocMashup

One valuable instance of a Knowledge Mashup is the concept of a documentation mashup, or DocMashup—a name that brevity and convention demands. Basically, this type of knowledge mashup serves as an aggregation of content from all resource types near and far for a product or service, including the importing and updating of the traditional static [...]

February 17, 2010   Posted in: Content Strategist, DocMashup, Information, Information management, Knowledge management, Mashups, documentation mashup, knowledge mashup, technical communicator  One Comment

The Mashstream Projects

Building Cloud Computing and Communication Tools and Processes
by Michael Hiatt @ Mashstream.com
At Mashstream.com, we are taking it to the virtual streets. We are joining the egalitarian revolution of open web protocols, open cloud development practices, open data streaming, open information sharing, and open global markets. Now is the time to take the theoretical ideas of [...]

January 30, 2010   Posted in: Cloud Computing, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Data, Semantic Web  One Comment

Competing in the Information Age

Competition drives all life on Earth. It is the invisible hand of markets and the engine of evolution. In our economic world, we see the traditional competition for jobs: Younger employees versed in new technologies forcing out workers with older skills, experienced employees competing with new graduates for fewer jobs, new technologies and services driving [...]

December 11, 2009   Posted in: Cloud Computing, Content Strategist, Contextual Data, Information Age, Information management, Knowledge management, Mashups, technical communicator  7 Comments

Adapting to the Information Age

The times they are a changin’.
I’ve been listening to a lot of Bob Dylan lately. My fifteen year-old son finds him cool. It’s a strange revolving world.
Regardless of my motives, the Bob prediction of the ‘60s reappears 50 years later with the same growing urgency. Socially, economically, and technologically, the symptoms and repercussions [...]

December 7, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Content Strategist, Information, Information Age, Information management, Knowledge management, Real-Time Web, Semantic Web  2 Comments

Evolving as a Content Strategist

The Age of Information is here. The economic, political, and global landscape is changing quickly. As web programmers and information developers (or those with shared skills), we search for a way to survive and prosper. We know that we need to recreate ourselves to be self-sustaining, innovative, and adaptable. We fight fears of corporate downsizing [...]

November 30, 2009   Posted in: Cloud Computing, Content Strategist, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups  9 Comments

Meshing Information and Mashing Functionality

Linked Data and Mashups rely on open standards to integrate information and furnish collaborative features, but differ on their uses and the intricacies of combining disparate data and features to build new functionality from cloud resources. Both provide emerging standards to provide content and shared applications for readers/users from existing Web resources coupled with proprietary [...]

November 24, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Cloud Computing, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Ontologies, Semantic Web  2 Comments

The Myth of Single-Source Authoring

Single-source publishing is a zombie idea that revives itself periodically and refuses to stay dead. Its zombie supporters chant its purported benefits as a “write once, publish to many” promise and ploddingly follow it as their ultimate goal for mechanized authoring and machine translation. As an object-oriented writing methodology, it is as human as present-day [...]

November 18, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Contextual Data, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Single-source publishing  25 Comments

Shotgun Communication

For many organizations, delivery of information about emerging products and services is undisciplined and chaotic. A mix of relevant, irrelevant, and erroneous content ends up scattered across the Web and overlaps from page to page, author to author, and medium to medium. With this shooting-from-the-hip delivery, information arrives as diffused and insulated content from the [...]

November 5, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Contextual Data, Information, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data  6 Comments

Knowledge from the Cloud

Searching for relevant information on the Web is both breathtaking and exhausting. With a single phrase you can generate a list of thousands of references that overwhelm the human intellect. To get just the right information, Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Wolfram Alpha, and other search engines devise algorithms to answer each query based on their interpretation [...]

November 3, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Contextual Data, Information, Information management, Knowledge, Semantic Web  3 Comments

The Fog of Information

Information overload leads to a specious information

October 26, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Information management, Knowledge, Mashups  2 Comments