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		<title>Client Diagnosis and Information Needs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This recent post on Ken Sickles&#8217; blog gave me a much needed breath of fresh air. As a solutions strategist for the Researcher and Knowledge Worker segment of Dow Jones, he discusses the topic of client diagnosis and information needs from a real-world experience: &#8220;The best way for us to understand the information needs of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lbenkert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7964579&amp;post=107&amp;subd=lbenkert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Final Project_IV</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reviewing this week&#8217;s homework, I am a bit deflated. Not by the scope of our final project, but by the work that lies beyond the project. You see, I selected my current employer and my department&#8217;s file structure as the focus of my project. I plan to design the IA for an intranet site [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lbenkert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7964579&amp;post=101&amp;subd=lbenkert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taxonomies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This word—taxonomy—has come up a lot lately. It was bandied about during the SLA conference last week, it’s part of this week’s homework assignment (RE: navigational taxonomies), and I also came across it this afternoon on the website of Earley &#38; Associates, an information management consulting company (the one Alex had pointed us to for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lbenkert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7964579&amp;post=94&amp;subd=lbenkert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Final Project_III</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I plan to recommend SharePoint to my client as the intranet platform they should use for a variety of reasons, one of which is its simple design. In other words, it is not unnecessarily complicated. Due to time and budget constraints, I’m trying to keep this project simple to build as well as easy to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lbenkert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7964579&amp;post=83&amp;subd=lbenkert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Search and Access</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In reviewing last week’s homework assignments, I found an interesting article in the Works Cited section of the Mitchell (2008) article, “Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface.” It was written by Lagoze, et al. (2005) and reviewed the underlying concepts of a successful digital library. According to the authors, a digital library [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lbenkert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7964579&amp;post=74&amp;subd=lbenkert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IA in the Real World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) conference in Washington D.C. this afternoon, I attended a career panel hosted by the student chapter of SLA, where I met Michelle Dollinger, Global Portal Manager for PriceWaterhouseCoopers. I was fuzzy on what her title meant, and she assured me that I was not alone. She kindly explained [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lbenkert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7964579&amp;post=69&amp;subd=lbenkert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Experiment in the Nation&#8217;s Capital (cont&#8217;d)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I just returned from my first foray into the exciting world of unplanned adventure. (See previous blog post.) It was interesting to experience things from a new perspective. Here is what I learned: - The Washington Convention Center does a great job with labeling. I never once needed to look at a map today [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lbenkert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7964579&amp;post=66&amp;subd=lbenkert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Experiment in the Nation&#8217;s Capital</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today began the Special Libraries Association conference in D.C. In an atypical move by this anal retentive writer, I decided I would pre-plan as LITTLE as possible for the conference and instead try an experiment. I plan to follow the signs and information posted, in an effort to evaluate how well the principles of information [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lbenkert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7964579&amp;post=64&amp;subd=lbenkert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 5 Organization Systems_Part III</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While reading Chapter 5 of our textbook* for this class, I thought of a vivid example of a methaporical organization scheme from MS Office&#8217;s 2007 Word program.  For whatever reason, Microsoft decided to add graphics to each menu item in this version of Word. In other words, the menu options in Word have not changed, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lbenkert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7964579&amp;post=62&amp;subd=lbenkert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 5 Organization Systems_Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“In designing a topical organization scheme, keep in mind that you are defining the universe of content (both present and future) that users will expect to find within that area of the web site” (p. 63). This sentence from Chapter 5 of our class textbook* struck me as interesting. As I plan my final project, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lbenkert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7964579&amp;post=60&amp;subd=lbenkert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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