By Arthur Weiss Every 25-30 years, a new technology emerges that transforms infopreneurship. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, online databases such as Dialog, LexisNexis, and CompuServe emerged. Twenty-five years later, in the late 1990s, the Internet, particularly the World Wide Web, transformed the landscape – and to be successful, infopreneurs had to become… Read More »
Information Skills
By Eric Magill With October being National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, I wanted to provide some pointers for defending yourself and your clients against cyber-attacks. In 20 years as owner of a managed IT services business, I have learned this:
How the Difference between AI-boosted Search and Gen AI Will Shape our Work and Creativity over the Near Term Jack W. Plunkett, CEO, Plunkett Research, Ltd. AIIP Industry Silver Partner – Learn more about the Industry Partners Program here. August 26, 2024 What’s behind the massive licensing deals that are suddenly popping up between major… Read More »
By Elizabeth Hutchinson Creating and nurturing online communities are indispensable tools for info professionals. As a solopreneur and owner of a business that provides a membership option, I was excited to hear Susan Tenby give a presentation on community building at AIIP 2024 Symposium. Susan has worked in online community management for over 20 years;… Read More »
By Chris Cochran The ability to tell stories using data in a visually compelling way can be a strategic and effective component of the infopreneur toolbox – we want to help our clients understand the stories data tell. Looking at data visualization differently, and growing that part of the toolbox, was the focus of a… Read More »
By Elizabeth Hutchinson In my school librarian background, professional development was neither valued nor recognized, so it may be surprising that my career is now based on providing training for the very type of professional I used to be. If your place of employment doesn’t recognize or value your professional development, and your opportunity for… Read More »
By Margot Note This post is a continuation of an earlier post on digital preservation fundamentals. Two fundamental digital preservation strategies are refreshment and migration. These strategies are designed to preserve the integrity of digital items and to enable you to retrieve, display, and use them despite changing technology. Refreshing involves moving files from one… Read More »
by Margot Note An acute preservation challenge lies in saving digital items. Technology enables us to create, use, and be enriched by information in ways that were unthinkable generations ago. But the same advances that make sharing information so easy also pose some problems. The complexity and diversity of technology is overwhelming, even as storage… Read More »
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