Category Archives: Tales From The Terminal Room

September Tales from the Terminal Room now available

The September issue of Tales from the Terminal Room is now available at http://www.rba.co.uk/tfttr/archives/2013/sep2013.html

This month’s issue includes:

  • Recent presentations
  • Search tools – Google announces Hummingbird…..hmmmm
  • Top tips from the latest business information workshop
  • Interactive maps of UK renewable energy generation
  • Twitter notes
  • Forthcoming workshops and meetings How to Make Google behave: techniques for better results, Wednesday, 30th October 2013
    • Free resources and search techniques for EU and UK legislation, Wednesday, 13th November 2013, London
    • Anything but Google, Tuesday, 19th November 2013, London

The newsletter is a compilation of recent articles from this blog plus some extra goodies such as Twitter Notes.

August Tales from the Terminal Room now available

The August  issue of Tales from the Terminal Room is now available at http://www.rba.co.uk/tfttr/archives/2013/aug2013.html

This month’s issue includes:

  • Search tools
    • Google adds in-depth articles to results
    • Google expands define but drops dictionary
  • Updates to Search Strategies
  • Does price guarantee quality of information?
  • How the UK’s electricity is generated
  • Dunkirk little ships and the Reading Festival
  • Twitter notes
  • Forthcoming workshops and meetings
    • Discover Sourcing 2013 afternoon pre-conference workshop on search skills, 17th September 2013, London
    • Business Information: Key Web Resources, 19th September 2013, London
    • How to Make Google behave: techniques for better results, Wednesday, 30th October 2013
    • Free resources and search techniques for EU and UK legislation, Wednesday, 13th November 2013, London
    • Anything but Google, Tuesday, 19th November 2013, London

The newsletter is a compilation of recent articles from this blog plus some extra goodies such as Twitter Notes.

Latest Tales from the Terminal Room

The March issue of Tales from the Terminal Room is now available at http://www.rba.co.uk/tfttr/archives/2013/mar2013.shtml

This month’s issue includes:

  • Search Strategies new articles available
  • Search tools
    • Google Flight Search takes off in Europe
    • How search works – sort of
    • Google Reader – what next
  • Advanced Google workshop change of venue
  • How to check your council tax banding for free
  • Top Tips for search and business information
  • The case of the disappearing press release
  • Workshops on business information
  • Twitter notes
  • Forthcoming workshops and meetings

The newsletter is a compilation of recent articles from my blog, so if you are a regular follower of the blog you will have read the articles already.

Latest Tales from the Terminal Room now available

The December 2012 issue of Tales from the Terminal Room is now available at http://www.rba.co.uk/tfttr/archives/2012/dec2012.shtml

This month’s issue includes:

  • Karen Blakeman’s Blog now available for the Kindle
  • Search tools
    • Another reason to say no to Google+?
  • Search Strategies update
  • EU launches public beta of its open data portal
  • ICAEW’s gateways and guides to business information
  • Information on companies in Israel
  • Twitter Notes

September Tales from the Terminal Room now available

Yes, I know it’s a bit late – busy with  ‘stuff’ and, I confess, enjoying life*.

If you follow my blog you will have already seen the main articles but not the Twitter Notes which are bits and pieces I’ve picked up on Twitter. They are mostly comments and links to articles I’ve found interesting with a few slightly silly things. On the surface the Onion News Network Youtube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sThcwmx3rs&feature=youtu.be may seem ‘silly’ but actually highlights how much information we divulge on social networks.

The latest Tales from the Terminal Room is now available at http://www.rba.co.uk/tfttr/archives/2012/sep2012.shtml and features:

  • Search Strategies goes electronic
  • Million Short: unearthing stuff hidden in the dungeons of Google’s results
  • Rediscovering BananaSlug for “long tail” search
  • Top search tips from North Wales
  • Doing Business in the United Kingdom and France
  • Company information: Luxembourg and Belgium
  • Twitter Notes

* I’ve been indulging myself by attending workshops on wildlife gardening at the Five a Day Market Garden (http://www.fiveaday.org.uk/), moss walks courtesy of the Earley Environmental Group (http://www.earleyenvironmentalgroup.co.uk/) and various fungus forays.

Tales from the Terminal Room issue 102 available

Tales from the Terminal Room, issue number 102 now available at http://www.rba.co.uk/tfttr/archives/2012/july2012.shtml

Most of the information in this newsletter will already have appeared in this  blog, the exception being the Twitter Notes.

In this month’s issue:

  • Search tools
    • Yet another irritating Google feature
    • Google maps UK canals
    • Google adds cycling routes to UK maps
  • Beating Google into submission – top tips
  • Twitter Notes

Tales from the Terminal Room issue 101 available

Tales from the Terminal Room, issue number 101 now available at http://www.rba.co.uk/tfttr/archives/2012/may2012.shtml

Most of the information in this newsletter will already have appeared in this  blog, the exception being the Twitter Notes.

In this month’s issue:

  • Search tools
    • Workshop: Beating Google into submission (Reading)
    • Order matters with Google advanced search
    • Use more than Google
  • 11th Southern African Online Information Meeting, Sandton, Johannesburg
  • Personalised vs non-personalised search – a word cloud comparison
  • Business Information Workshop – Top Tips
  • Useful industry information guides from the British Library BIPC
  • Twitter Notes

Tales from the Terminal Room, Issue no. 100 out now

Issue number 100 of Tales from the Terminal Room is now available at http://www.rba.co.uk/tfttr/archives/2012/feb2012.shtml.

This month’s issue includes:

  • Google personalisation: web history isn’t the only problem
  • And the next Google killer is….Google!
  • Top search tips from Google and advanced search workshops
  • Official companies register for the Ukraine
  • Twitter Notes

If you are a regular reader of this blog the main articles will not be new to you. Twitter Notes are some of my tweets and retweets that I’ve selected because they contain links to resources or announcements that may be of general interest. I have unshortened the shortened URLs so you have a better idea of where the links are going to and in some cases added extra comments.