This year’s winners were chosen from more than 1,197 nominations – the most in the history of the Codies – for the excellence of their products, services, corporate leadership and philanthropy. Intuit products gathered the largest number of awards for a single firm, with four Codie winners: QuickBooks Merchant Services for Web Stores won in Best eCommerce Solution; QuickBase won in Best Project Management Solution; Quicken Medical Expense Manager won in Best Medical and Health Information Product and Quicken Home Inventory Manager was judged Best Home Productivity Solution.
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
