The ability to visualize information is key to communicate knowledge.
Eyeplorer is an interesting new tool that maps information from search queries. You can drag and drop information connected to the search phrases into a notebook to “connect the dots” and collect the information for further learning and exploration.
Thomas Davenport proposes a revolutionary new way to look at information management, one that takes into account the total information environment within an organization. Arguing that the information that comes from computer systems may be considerably less valuable to managers than information that flows in from a variety of other sources, the author describes an approach that encompasses the company’s entire information environment, the management of which he calls information ecology. Only when organizations are able to combine and integrate these diverse sources of information, and to take them to a higher level where information becomes knowledge, will they realize the full power of their information ecology.
