Archive for the ‘Information’ 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

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

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 Information Confluence

Listening last week to National Public Radio (NPR) in the U.S., I heard an author of a new book extol the almost supernatural advantages of blogging, Twitter, Facebook, and the rewards of Web 2.0 social networks. The new online access to the information frontier. It was all pretty compelling stuff. The author was an inveterate [...]

October 22, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Contextual Data, Information, Knowledge, Semantic Data, Semantic Web  3 Comments