Editor's note: The Child Welfare Information Gateway -- a service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- has proven to be an excellent source of reports and other documents for our sister weblog, DocuTicker. Library Services Manager John Vogel routinely e-mails us to let us know what's new on the site. We asked him to tell us more about the Gateway, and he kindly put together this Resource of the Week for you.
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Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families by connecting child welfare, adoption, and related professionals to information and resources that help them address the needs of children and families in their communities.
A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to print and electronic publications, websites, and online databases covering a wide range of child welfare topics, including:
Family-centered practice
Preventing and responding to child abuse and neglect
+ Online Catalog, providing listings and descriptions of all publications available from Information Gateway
+ Logic Model Builder to assist child abuse and neglect prevention and family support programs in evaluating their effectiveness in improving outcomes for children and families
+ Free email subscription services, including E-lert!, a monthly email about new Information Gateway publications and resources; My Child Welfare Librarian, which notifies you of recent additions to our library collection in your areas of interest; and Children's Bureau Express, an online digest of news, issues, and trends in child welfare and adoption.
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
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? 
