scholarly journals Knowledge Sharing Through MS SharePoint

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Lorette Weldon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Information Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Team Environment ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Information Professionals

Microsoft SharePoint is being used in Government, private, public and association offices throughout the United States. SharePoint was created to increase accountability for projects within a team environment. How could SharePoint help increase accountability in information management? This article will review SharePoint’s positive and negative characteristics in the hopes of helping information professionals understand what SharePoint really is in the information world and how it can be applied to libraries and other information management organizations.

RAILROAD INVESTING AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING INFORMATION IN 1880s AMERICA

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel E. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
The United States ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
New Information ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Comprehensive Search ◽  
The Wall Street Journal

This study has a two-fold purpose. First, it seeks to determine the importance of financial accounting information to railroad investors (and speculators) in 1880s America. Second, a further goal is to ascertain what financial accounting information was readily available for use by these investors. Based on a comprehensive search of books of the era, the 1880s were a time of expanding advice for railroad securities holders that required the use of financial accounting information. Furthermore, new information sources arose to help service investors' needs. Statistics by Goodsell and The Wall Street Journal were two such sources. This article reviews these publications along with the ongoing Commercial and Financial Chronicle and Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States. Each of these sources helped railroad investors to follow contemporary advice of gathering financial accounting and other information when investing.

Establishing an Integrated Ocean Observing System for the United States

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric J. Lindstrom
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Operations Planning ◽  
System A ◽  
Comprehensive Data ◽  
Multiple Uses ◽  
A Priority ◽  
Ocean Observing

The Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) is a developing concept to provide the United States with a comprehensive ocean observing capability for multiple uses. Notable features of the IOOS are its basis in sound science, global and coastal components for the observing system, a priority on a comprehensive data and information management strategy, and commitment to the process of transitioning new capabilities from research to operations. Planning for the system is being coordinated by the Ocean. US Office (http://www.ocean.us).

Gender, Race, Social Class and Information Technology

2009 ◽  
pp. 1729-1735
Author(s):  
Myungsook Klassen ◽  
Russell Stockard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Technology Positions

The issue of the underrepresentation of women in the information technology workforce has been the subject of a number of studies and the gender gap was an issue when the digital divide dominated discourse about women’s and minority groups’ use of the Internet However, a broader view is needed. That perspective would include the relation of women and IT in the communities in which they live as well as the larger society. The information society that has emerged includes the United States and the globalized economy of which it is an integral part. Women and minorities such as African Americans and Latinos are underrepresented in computer science (CS) and other information technology positions in the United States. In addition, while they areno longer numerically underrepresented in access to computers and the Internet – as of 2000, (Gorski, 2001) - they continue to enjoy fewer benefits available through the medium than white boys and men. The following article explores the diversity within women from the perspectives of race, ethnicity and social class in North America, mainly United States. The technology gender and racial gap persists in education and in the IT workforce. A broader and deeper look at women’s position in relation to the increasingly techno-centric society reveals that women may have reached equality in access, but not equity in academic study and job opportunities.

On Leadership, Intellectual Capital Creation and IT Governance

2011 ◽  
pp. 143-156
Author(s):  
David O’Donnell ◽  
Lin Guo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
It Governance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pragmatic Argument

This chapter positions a discussion of intellectual capital, governance, IT and leadership in the context of a resource-based and dynamic capabilities view of the firm. It then discusses in very pragmatic terms how leadership may be associated with IT governance and both knowledge sharing and knowledge creation from a micro-practices perspective. The chapter then presents four vignettes on the experiences of exemplary pioneering leaders to illustrate this argument. The leaders chosen are Leif Edvinsson of Scandia in Sweden, Robert Buckman of Buckman Laboratories in the United States, Hu Gang of NCD in China, and Lars Kolind of Oticon in Denmark. The chapter concludes with the pragmatic argument that leadership matters.

scholarly journals Book Review: Native American Almanac: More than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Lisa Euster
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contact Period ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Other Information

The authors emphasize early what Native American Almanac is not: an almanac, an encyclopedia, nor a scholarly work, among other things. It is described as a well-researched “historical overview of Native communities in what is now the United States” (ix). Despite the title, it is heavily focused on the post-contact period. The main arrangement is by geographical region, with an overview chapter and one discussing urban settings. Each chapter is introduced by a regional history, followed by discussion of tribes, their histories, and other information.

From Project's Information Management to Project-Based Organizational Learning

2015 ◽  
pp. 190-211
Author(s):  
Maria Almeida ◽  
António Lucas Soares
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Collaborative Culture ◽  
Inadequate Information ◽  
Sharing Strategy ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Knowledge Creation And Sharing

Project-based organizations have characteristics that raise additional barriers to information management, knowledge sharing, and to organizational learning. The main causes of this are inadequate information architectures and governance, poor collaborative culture, and lack of organization-wide information management strategies. This chapter presents a comprehensive basis to understand the information and knowledge-sharing practices in PBO, as well as the methods and tools that information professionals and project managers should have in mind when performing their tasks. For that, literatures are reviewed focusing on the explanation of the processes of knowledge creation and sharing leading to organizational learning. The main conclusion is that a knowledge-sharing strategy in a PBO should include a set of mechanisms that address a customized mix of the codification and personalization dimensions and that strategies for collaborative information management should be used as enablers for embedding knowledge sharing within the organizational practices and culture.

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