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Intro – #1

September 19, 2009 |  Tagged , , , | Leave a Comment

Hi all! This is my last semester at Dominican and a wonderful way to wrap up my LIS experience! I currently use and help implement web 2.0 technologies at my firm, but it is hard to get people within our corporate environment comfortable with these technologies. We use Microsoft SharePoint as our web 2.0 platform (which looks different but is the same concept as free applications) which provides blogs, wiki spaces, twitter-like webparts, customizable lists, picture hosting, RSS aggregation, etc.

We have also created on off-shoot of SharePoint that we call PracticePoint. The Knowledge Managers and Librarians maintain pages and create content for the different PracticePoint pages, depending on which practices you work with, etc. I maintain, develop, and help train people on PracticePoint, as well as manage the firm’s Competitive Intelligence page and the regional (Global, AsiaPac, Latin America, EMEA) pages with general research request content. My goal is to bring knowledge of how libraries are using web 2.0 technologies outside the for-profit world into our corporate environment.

It has been a very difficult task at hand to get people to warm up to sharing knowledge at our firm, but it is the life blood of what we do in executive search. I am most interested in learning about how special libraries incorporate social networking into their competitive intelligence and knowledge management programs, but I think there is a lot to learn from how other types of libraries are using these tools, as well.  Experiences with how others have rolled out 2.0 tools to employees / users and the pros and cons of these resources will be very enlightening and educational!


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