Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management

• Author : William Jones
• Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
• Release : 27 July 2010

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Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management is the first comprehensive book on new 'favorite child' of R&D at Microsoft and elsewhere, personal information management (PIM). It provides a comprehensive overview of PIM as both a study and a practice of the activities people do, and need to be doing, so that information can work for them in their daily lives. It explores what good and better PIM looks like, and how to measure

Personal Information Management

• Author : William P. Jones,Jaime Teevan
• Publisher : University of Washington Press
• Release : 01 July 2011

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In an ideal world, everyone would always have the right information, in the right form, with the right context, right when they needed it. Unfortunately, we do not live in an ideal world. This book looks at how people in the real world currently manage to store and process the massive amounts of information that overload their senses and their systems, and discusses how tools can help bring these real information interactions closer to the ideal. Personal information management (PIM)

The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff

• Author : Ofer Bergman,Steve Whittaker
• Publisher : MIT Press
• Release : 04 November 2016

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Why we organize our personal digital data the way we do and how design of new PIM systems can help us manage our information more efficiently. Each of us has an ever-growing collection of personal digital data: documents, photographs, PowerPoint presentations, videos, music, emails and texts sent and received. To access any of this, we have to find it. The ease (or difficulty) of finding something depends on how we organize our digital stuff. In this book, personal information management (

Found Things

• Author : Marilyn Hilton
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 14 July 2015

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Eleven-year-old River Rose, bullied at school and missing her older brother, Theron, makes friends with a strange new classmate, Meadow Lark, and the two search for a miracle by floating wishes down the river.

Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information

• Author : William Jones
• Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
• Release : 01 October 2013

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With its theme, "Our Information, Always and Forever," Part I of this book covers the basics of personal information management (PIM) including six essential activities of PIM and six (different) ways in which information can be personal to us. Part I then goes on to explore key issues that arise in the "great migration" of our information onto the Web and into a myriad of mobile devices. Part 2 provides a more focused look at technologies for managing information that promise

The Academic Library and the Net Gen Student

• Author : Susan L. Gibbons
• Publisher : American Library Association
• Release : 29 May 2022

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As students embrace new Web 2.0 technologies like MySpace, YouTube, and RSS feeds, libraries also need to take charge. Based on actual work-practice studies of students and faculty - original research conducted at the University of Rochester - this visionary guide maps potentially vibrant futures for academic libraries.Academic librarians in public services, technology and administration now have the tools to better understand the integral role of technology in the social and academic lives of undergraduates (the net generation). Use these

The Little Shop of Found Things

• Author : Paula Brackston
• Publisher : St. Martin's Press
• Release : 16 October 2018

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New York Times bestselling author of The Witch's Daughter Paula Brackston returns to her trademark blend of magic and romance guaranteed to enchant in The Little Shop of Found Things, the first book in a new continuing series. An antique shop haunted by a ghost. A silver treasure with an injustice in its story. An adventure to the past she’ll never forget. Xanthe and her mother Flora leave London behind for a fresh start, taking over an antique shop

Library and Information Science Research in Asia-Oceania: Theory and Practice

• Author : Du, Jia Tina
• Publisher : IGI Global
• Release : 28 February 2014

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Historically, the major Library and Information Science (LIS) research-producing centers of the world have largely been the universities and information institutions of North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe. This is changing with the growth of Asian economies, universities, and information industries. Library and Information Science Research in Asia-Oceania: Theory and Practice presents evolving and emerging research and development in the field of library and information science (LIS) in diverse countries in Asia-Oceania as the region continues to develop. This

Pro Web 2.0 Mashups

• Author : Raymond Yee
• Publisher : Apress
• Release : 25 April 2008

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Mashups are hugely popular right now, a very important topic within the general area of Web 2.0, involving technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, APIs, libraries, and server-side languages (such as PHP and ASP.NET.) This book aims to be the definitive tome on Mashup development, to stand in the middle of all the other, more API specific books coming out on Google Maps, Flickr, etc. The book shows how to create real world Mashups using all the most poplar APIs,

Human Interface and the Management of Information

• Author : Sakae Yamamoto
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 03 July 2013

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The three-volume set LNCS 8016, 8017, and 8018 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2013, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in July 2013. The total of 1666 papers and 303 posters presented at the HCII 2013 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 5210 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer Interaction, addressing major

People and Computers XVIII - Design for Life

• Author : Sally Fincher,Panos Markpoulos,David Moore,Roy Ruddle
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 11 March 2007

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The eighteenth annual British HCI Conference chose as its theme Design for Life. 'Life' has many facets, from work (of course, or should we say inevitably!) to travel, fun and other forms of leisure. We selected 23 full papers out of 63 submitted, which covered our interaction with computer systems in a variety of types of life situation — including games, tourism and certain types of work — and also covered a variety of stages in our lives, from the young to the elderly.

Personal Knowledge Models with Semantic Technologies

• Author : Max Völkel
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release : 29 May 2022

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Information Overload

• Author : Guus Pijpers
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 02 July 2010

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World-class guidance on using information to achieve betterperformance Examining the characteristics of information and the latestfindings in cognitive science, this book shows how the mind works,how it can be used to think optimally about your business, and howto improve business performance with better information managementpractices. Provides the process and tools necessary to identify thisinformation and how to remember it, and how to better use thepeople around you to obtain the best information Reveals how to handle all of the

Personal Knowledge Management

• Author : David J. Pauleen
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 13 May 2016

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Individuals need to survive and grow in changing and sometimes turbulent organizational environments, while organizations and societies want individuals to have the knowledge, skills and abilities that will enable them to prosper and thrive. Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is a means of coping with complex environmental changes and developments: it is a form of sophisticated career and life management. Personal Knowledge Management is an evolving concept that focuses on the importance of individual growth and learning as much as on

Information Issues for Older Americans

• Author : William Aspray
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 15 February 2022

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Information Issues for Older Americans brings together leading faculty from the leading Information Schools to examine information needs, behavior, and policy related to older Americans.