Comments on: Information management

By: landismom

landismom — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:46:06 +0000

Can you set up a blog? maybe a password-protected one? I have about 8 sharepoint and group-hub accounts for various parts of my worklife, and I have to say, I really hate sharepoint. And it is NOT for the tech-challenged.

By: lane

lane — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:55:26 +0000

We do use a wiki (mesiawiki) at work for such things, with a WYSIWYG editor, and it’s been quite successful, with people of varying patience for detail. If you go to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wiki_Science:How_to_start_a_Wiki, or google “free wiki host”, you’ll see a lot of easy-to-use options with user reviews.
Another good option might be Microsoft’s Office Live, which they offer for free. It appears to be a version of SharePoint, which ought to meet a lot of your needs nicely. The good thing about a hosted option is that you don’t have to worry about any setup on your end. office live is @ smallbusiness.officelive.com. I hope those options help in your search.

By: Erika

Erika — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:59:57 +0000

btw, if your org. is big enough to have a library, the librarian would probably have some valuable input for you.

By: Erika

Erika — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:58:47 +0000

Delicious would be easiest. Zotero apparently does now have the ability to share, though:
http://www.zotero.org/blog/sync-preview-and-more-zotero-15-begins-public-testing/
Also look at Connotea or CiteULike.
Another option, that you’d have to pay for, would be RefWorks.
Wikipedia has an article about reference mgmt software–it’s a bit dense, but might be helpful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software

By: jen

jen — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:54:48 +0000

Another option, if your team has a shared file server, is to simply dump everything in an area accessible by everyone and turn a Google Mini on it. The Google Mini is a piece of hardware that you purchase from Google. It comes pre-loaded with a search engine that you simply turn against whatever you want indexed, and it then serves up a search page for showing results. The Mini retails for about $3K. We’ve bought two of them at my office: one for the public web site, and one for the research team. It’s a significantly lower cost/effort than something like SharePoint, although it doesn’t help with check-in, check-out or security types of things. HTH!

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:04:57 +0000

What about del.icio.us? Or Diigo? Both are easy to use. Diigo has more to offer in terms of notes, etc. Another option is Furl, which actually saves a copy of the page.

By: K

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:43:48 +0000

We use Sharepoint at work for such things. It’s amazing. Worth looking into, anyway.

By: Gori Girl

Gori Girl — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:32:43 +0000

Is this data that you would be entering/uploading yourself, or are you looking for something that will let you keep track of information you’ve found on the web?