NFAIS 50th Annual Conference

Today and tomorrow I'll be at NFAIS 50th Annual Gala. This year's theme is "The New Information Order: Its Culture, Content and Economy".

The keynote speaker was David Weinberger. He elaborated on "scarce knowledge" and "knowledge without authority" and how "conversation drives bugs out knowledge".

He also mentioned the importance of "making connection between meaning and knowledge" which can be a great intro for the launch of our new product.


Tomorrow there is a member only lunch and Kevin Bouley, NFAIS and Nerac's President has prepared a scavenger hunt for this meeting.

Lights on for a new productivity-enhancing online solution

We are almost there

The countdown has started for the launch of a unique online research solution powered by some very clever and talented Mountain View guys who like eating New Orleans cuisine.

Coming Soon

to a browser near you, something that will reveal insights and solutions from billions of documents

Cost effective way analyzing patent data

In the latest issue of Searcher magazine, Robert March, information scientist at Du Pont writes about the importance of analyzing structured and unstructured data for identifying trends which is a "technology intelligence" activity. He outlines how to use word and excel to analyze patent content.

He ends up the article by "automatic categorization of the unstructured text can save time and money and lead data becoming information, information becoming knowledge, and knowledge becoming wisdom".

These guys in Mountain View also are working very hard (when they are not eating New Orleans cuisine) to figure out how to transform information to knowledge and insights in very unique way.