While Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol" topped the list again in both the adult fiction audiobook and eBook categories, Nora Roberts' "Bed of Roses" and Kathryn Stockett's "The Help" made their first appearances in the top ten on the same lists. New audiobooks by David Baldacci and Malcolm Gladwell, along with the "Superfreakonomics" audiobook and eBook, surged onto the lists.
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1. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown (Books on Tape)
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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).
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