Upcoming Presentation: "Opportunities for Mobile Enhanced Library Services and Collections"
Next week at the Digital Libraries à la Carte 2010 course at Tilburg University, the Netherlands will take place and we hope to link to as many presentations as we can find from the two day event.
One presentation that is already online and 100% worth reviewing is by Tito Sierra from North Carolina State University Libraries.
We're not surprised to see a presentation like this come from the NC State Libraries. They have been doing some great work and we've even mentioned some of it on ResourceShelf during the past seven months.
Utilizing GPS and a mobile device users can take a self-guided tour of the NC State Campus and learn its history. The service is called WolfWalk (Wolfpack is NC State's Nickname).
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? 
