Tuesday, March 2, 2010

iKnow, you know, now we can all be in the know!

Found an interesting site from the Open University in the UK.

Now I don't like to give away my searching secrets, but since this site has I'd may as well promote them! We all know the person who cannot find anything on the interweb. It really is easy in fact and the site is all about information; finding, reviewing, storing, disseminating - on the web and in person.


They are inspired to try and help by the following statistic:

"An estimated 6.4 hours per employee are spent looking for information in the workplace each week in the UK. 37% of the searches prove unsuccessful.

In financial terms, an estimated £3.7 billion is spent on time wasted looking for information that cannot be found."


I found that to be quite staggering.

So, the site, iKnow, that aims to rectify this is broken down into bitesized chunks of information, aka tips, that seem pretty useful actually.


The six subject headings are:

  1. Finding information
  2. Know you sources
  3. Evaluating information
  4. Information handling
  5. Organising information
  6. Keeping up to date

Again, it isn't all web-based searching though. I'd definitely recommend taking a look at it...