October 2008

Click here to submit a nomination

For over 10 years, Free Pint Limited has published the work of experts in the field on best-practices in information work. Over the years, as everyone's understanding of what 'information work' is all about, FreePint's body of articles has expanded and broadened in scope.

Rather than provide standard conference coverage (summary of sessions, commentary on social events, and the insights of only one or two reporters), we decided this year to open it up to the community itself. We solicited contributions from participants, collected and edited them, and organised them into thematic sections in the attached PDF report -- call it a blend of new-world User Generated Content and old-world publishing!

Today's publishing programme focuses on four practice areas: Find, Use, Manage and Share Information (FUMSI).

In 2007, to commemorate its tenth publishing year FreePint awarded the first FUMSI Citation for Most Useful Article, at Online Information 2007. Readers nominated the articles they felt were most practical and useful to them, and a panel of judges selected 'Mentors and Mentees: Structuring a Professional Relationship' by Heather Carine of Australia to receive the award.

Any article published in the FUMSI database between December 2007 and September 2008 is eligible for nomination. The full list of eligible articles is listed below. Links to each article can also be found through the online nomination system, where nominators are asked to provide information about how they used the information in the article to improve their work.

Both the author and the article nominee will receive recognition, and the award recipient will be announced at FreePint stand number 122 at the Online Information exhibition on Tuesday, 2 December.

Also of note at Online 2008:
FUMSI Contributing Editors will be presenting two informal panel discussions on the emerging opportunities for professionals who can Find, Use, Manage and Share Information.

VIP Senior Editor Pamela Clark, formally Director, Corporate Research & Development, AIG, will be offering a brief presentation on upheaval at the strategic level in the world of information.

Eligible articles:

• The Library in the Twenty-first Century: New Services for the Information Age
  
  
• Widgets for Content Distribution: A Shift in the Internet
  
  
• Prospect Research: Finally Coming of Age
  
  
• Have a beta-test mind - just do it!: An interview with the British Library and SLA
  
  
• The Leaving Employee: Knowledge Management for Surviving and Thriving
  
  
• Statistics: Can You Really Believe the Figures?
  
  
• Evaluating Researchers: Developing a Skills Matrix
  
  
• Online Digital Special Collections in English Universities: Promoting Awareness
  
  
• Beyond the Internet: Successful Research Strategies
  
  
• Managing Successful Vendor Contracts: Part 1 - Preparation
  
  
• Nontraditional Careers for Info Pros: Why Consider Alternatives?
  
  
• Web 2.0 + Intranet: Connected Users
  
  
• Laughing at the CIO
  
  
• Life Beyond Google: Some of the Best of the Rest
  
  
• RSS Feeds: Managing the Mechanism
  
  
• What's On An Info-Entrepreneur's Book Shelf?
  
  
• Exposing the secret state
  
  
• Finding People Information: Free Sources and Web 2.0
  
  
• Develop Your Independent Business: Using Information Strategically
  
  
• Managing Successful Vendor Contracts (Part 2)
  
  
• UK Government Information on the Internet
  
  
• Legal Research: Turning It into Competitive Advantage
  
  
• The Greening of a Business: Beyond the Bottom Line
  
  
• Identity Theft: The Fastest Growing Crime Wave and Our Role
  
  
• US Government Information On the Internet
  
  
• If Members Won’t Come: The Royal Society of Chemistry Builds a Virtual Library
  
  
• Information Provision: Adding Value
  
  
• Knowledge Management: Getting Started
  
  
• Library and Information Show 2008: Information Literacy is Key
  
  
• Finding Competitive Information for Growing Companies
  
  
• Convenience Trumps Quality: How Digital Natives Use Information
  
  
• ISO Management Standards, Intranets and Information Architecture
  
  
• The EU: Closer Than You Thought!
  
  
• Intranet 2.0: Ten Not-So-Easy Steps
  
  
• Do We Have to Work Harder in a Downturn?
  
  
• Search Beyond the Web: When to Pick Up the Phone
  
  
• Experiencing Information: A Personal View of the 2008 Information Architecture Summit
  
  
• Research: A Diligent Approach
  
  
• Creating User Centred Taxonomies: Part One
  
  
• Secret Leeds: Share Your Secrets, Share Your City
  
  
• SLA: In Focus
  
  
• Selling Photographs in the Digital Age
  
  
• Social Networking: A Research Tool
  
  
• Making a Difference to Patient Care: Using Evidence Based Medicine
  
  
• Creating User-Centred Taxonomies: Part Two
  
  
• Corporate Blogging: How To Be Open
  
  
• Coming Soon: European Day of Languages
  
  

About Free Pint Limited

Free Pint Limited is a publisher of magazines, newsletters and licensable content. Its online imprints include:

FreePint <http://www.freepint.com/>, an online community of 77,000 practitioners around the world who find, use, manage and share work- related information.

FUMSI <http://www.fumsi.com/>, practical tips, articles, reports and tool kits to help everyone in an organisation better Find, Use, Manage and Share Information.

VIP <http://www.vivavip.com/>, a monthly PDF magazine for senior managers who make purchasing decisions for information content products and services.

ResourceShelf <http://www.resourceshelf.com/>, a daily update website with high-quality free web-based resources, including databases, multimedia and special collections.

DocuTicker <http://www.docuticker.com/>, a daily update of full-text PDF reports published free on the web by government agencies, NGOs and other public interest groups.

Jinfo <http://www.jinfo.com/>, an online database of information-related job vacancies.

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