Being an independent consultant can feel isolating, especially as technology and AI rapidly reshape our profession. Without the resources of large organizations, solo experts must develop a new form of strategic leverage. For Internet Librarian Connect 2025, I’m sharing firsthand insights on how solopreneurs build research support networks through community collaboration.
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Editor’s Note: Getting Started in Government Contracting is part of a series on US government contracting (GovCon) opportunities at all government levels. A non-US entity may register in SAM.gov as a foreign entity.
If you are new to government contracting, one of the first questions you might have is: How do federal agencies find small business vendors?
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By Arthur Weiss
Editor’s note: This is part of a series covering what’s new and, more importantly, how infopreneurs can maximize the benefits of AI tools.
In the last post, I gave a guide to the basic principles of prompting – knowing your objective and recognizing how prompts can bias responses. This time, we explore best practices and a practical framework for effective prompting.
Read More →Grow Your Business with Online Courses: An illustration of Instructional Design for Infopreneurs
By Amy Ferguson
Trying to turn your expertise into a marketable online course? As information professionals who curate knowledge for a living, building and selling online courses is a natural next step for many of us. But without a plan, creating an online course can feel overwhelming. Where do you start?
That is where instructional design comes in.
What is Instructional Design?
Instructional design is the art and science of creating engaging, effective learning experiences. It involves understanding how people learn and structuring content to improve learning.
At its core, instructional design involves:
- Defining the knowledge and skills learners should have acquired by the end of the course.
- Creating learning materials that capture attention and encourage learning.
- Assessing whether learners have achieved the intended goals.
Several instructional design models guide course development. ADDIE is one of these models. ADDIE stands for Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate.
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Editor’s Note: Getting Started in Government Contracting is part of a series on US government contracting (GovCon) opportunities at all government levels. A non-US entity may register in SAM.gov as a foreign entity.
In my previous article on government contracting, I covered research basics on how to find the agencies that need your business products and services. Along with having research on hand, businesses need to develop a company capabilities statement. This document is required to work with local, state, and federal agencies and is helpful when working with private sector entities. The capability statement is a key component of your business development efforts. Let’s dive in.
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Editor’s note: This is part of a series covering what’s new and, more importantly, how infopreneurs can maximize the benefits of AI tools.
On job sites, you’ll discover that there’s been a boom in job ads for “AI Prompt Engineers.” Some jobs pay well over $100,000 per year – but is “prompt engineering” actually so difficult?
Read More →Editor’s Note: Getting Started in Government Contracting is part of a series on US government contracting (GovCon) opportunities at all government levels. Non-US entities can also register in SAM.gov as a foreign entity.
Have you considered selling your products and services to the local, state, and federal government? If not, you may be interested in an introduction to the opportunities. In this article, I offer tips to help you get oriented. Later articles in the series discuss the contracting process and outline how to get started.
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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.
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