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Karen Blakeman on June 11th, 2012

The slides for the workshop and presentation I gave at the 11th Southern African Online Information Meeting are now up on authorSTREAM and Slideshare. Personalisation of search: take back control http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/karenblakeman-1438076-personalisation-of-search-take-back-control/ http://www.slideshare.net/KarenBlakeman/personalisation-of-search-take-back-control   Personalisation of search: take back control – ADDENDUM Answers to some of the questions that arose during the workshop http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/karenblakeman-1442618-personalisation-of-search-take-back-control-addendum/ http://www.slideshare.net/KarenBlakeman/personalisation-of-search-addendum   [...]

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Karen Blakeman on May 29th, 2012

My INFORUM 2012 presentation on “Search gets personal and social” is available on authorSTREAM at http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/karenblakeman-1431533-search-gets-personal-and-social/ It is also available temporarily at http://www.rba.co.uk/as/ A paper is also available on the INFORUM web site at http://www.inforum.cz/en/proceedings. It covers much of what I said but bear in mind it was written a few weeks beforehand and the presentation [...]

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Karen Blakeman on May 28th, 2012

This is the presentation that formed the basis of the business information workshop that I facilitated on 17th May 2012. If you do not see the embedded presentation above you can go direct to the file on authorSTREAM at http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/karenblakeman-1430353-business-information-key-web-resources/ The top tips can be found at http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2012/05/28/business-information-workshop-top-tips/

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Karen Blakeman on March 23rd, 2012

The presentation I gave at CILIP in Surrey last night (Spring Clean Your Social Media) is now available on authorSTREAM at http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/karenblakeman-1368248-cilip-surrey-20120322/ and on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/KarenBlakeman/spring-clean-your-social-media     Update: Claire Gravely has written a blog posting covering some of the issues we discussed. See “Karen Blakeman’s talk on spring cleaning your social media – some thoughts and [...]

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Karen Blakeman on October 16th, 2010

My presentation on using social media search tools as part of research, which I gave at Internet Librarian International on 15th October 2010, is now available on the sites listed below. I have uploaded it to several different sites and services as I know some of you are not able to access one or more [...]

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Karen Blakeman on May 13th, 2010

I have now uploaded the slides for my workshop at the Information for Energy Group (IFEG). As usual, I have uploaded them to several different web sites in case one or more are blocked by corporate firewalls. If you have problems accessing any of the locations, let me know and I’ll sort out some other [...]

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Karen Blakeman on March 7th, 2010

CILIP in the Thames Valley evening event Date: Tuesday 6 April 2010 Time: 18.00 for 18.30 Venue: Great Expectations, 33 London Street, Reading, Berkshire RG1 4PS www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=471801&y=173139&z=0&ar=Y Chrissy Allott: CASH, a Current Awareness Service for Health From a local to a national current awareness and alerting service; from primary care to mental health and secondary [...]

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Karen Blakeman on October 2nd, 2009

CILIP in the Thames Valley evening meeting Date & Time: Tuesday 6th October 2009,  1800 for 1830 hrs Location: Great Expectations, 33 London St, Reading Google threatens to go hyper with its “caffeine” search. Bing is taking over Yahoo. Image search options are expanding: creative commons, colour, similar images. More specialist search tools for the [...]

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Karen Blakeman on May 29th, 2009

The presentations that I gave at PATLIB 2009 in Sofia, Bulgaria lastweek are now available at http://www.rba.co.uk/patlib2009. There are two: a 25 minute  presentation that was given as part of the main conference and the longer half day pre-conference workshop. As usual, many of the slides will probably not make sense without my commentary but [...]

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