AIIP Blog – Retirement Series

By Jan Knight

Editor’s note: This is part of our “Retirement” series to address challenges and opportunities many of our members facing retirement are experiencing.

Off-ramp to Where Exactly?

A couple of years ago, I mentioned to a client that I was starting to think about retirement, but I wasn’t sure how to approach it as an independent consultant. What were the pros and cons of ‘going cold turkey’ versus just slowing down? Would my personality allow me to “just slow down”? She coined the phrase “off-ramp” that day at breakfast, and I’ve been using it ever since.

We are AIIP: Charles Costa

In your bio, you describe yourself as a content strategist who focuses on customer service knowledge management. In two sentences, what do content strategists do?

Working as a content strategist in a customer service setting is analogous to being an air traffic controller who is focused on content development instead of planes. As the company changes its product and/or policies, content strategists identify the information impacted thereby and estimate the resources required to make adjustments.

How to get started as a consultant

AIIP members, Cindy Shamel and Christine Geluk presented a session on how to get started as a consultant at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) conference on Tuesday, June 12 2018.

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Infographic: 2016 Business Information Review Annual Survey

Denise Carter, AIIP member, recently stepped into managing the world’s longest running survey in the Business Information and Knowledge Management sector.

The Business Information Survey has been conducted annually since 1991 by Business Information Review. In 2016 in-depth telephone interviews were conducted with senior information managers in the financial, legal, pharmaceutical, science & technical, and telecommunications sectors.

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New AIIP member becoming major player in business research

Bizologie – how three librarians are becoming major players in business research

Laura Young, an AIIP member, and Bizologie partners Lindsey Schell and April Kessler have turned former careers as librarians into a growing new venture. The partners are also active in SCIP and SLA, as well as the Texas Library Association.

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Members in the News-March

A roundup of news mentions, articles or presentations from AIIP members and partners

Computers in Libraries from our Partner InfoToday – March 2016

A number of AIIP members attended #CILDC and presented to their library, education, technology and info pro peers. There were also keynotes and featured presentations by information industry luminaries who have also presented at AIIP events or are preparing to do so in the very near future.

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