| Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management Contributor(s): Jones, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0123708664 ISBN-13: 9780123708663 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers OUR PRICE: $59.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: WE ARE ADRIFT IN A SEA OF INFORMATION. We need information to make good decisions, to get things done, to learn, and to gain better mastery of the world around us. But we do not always have good control of our information - not even in the "home waters" of an office or on the hard drive of a computer. Instead, information may be controlling us - keeping us from doing the things we need to do, getting us to waste money and precious time. The growth of available information, plus the technologies for its creation, storage, retrieval, distribution and use, is astonishing and sometimes bewildering. Can there be a similar growth in our understanding for how best to manage information and informational tools? This book provides a comprehensive overview of personal information management (PIM) as both a study and a practice of the activities people do and need to be doing so that information can work for them in their daily lives. Introductory chapters of "Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management" provide an overview of PIM and a sense for its many facets. The next chapters look more closely at the essential challenges of PIM, including finding, keeping, organizing, maintaining, managing privacy, and managing information flow. The book also contains chapters on search, email, mobile PIM, web-based support, and other technologies relevant to PIM. * Focuses exclusively on one of the most interesting and challenging problems in today's world * Explores what good and better PIM looks like, and how to measure improvements * Presents key questions to consider when evaluating any new PIM informational tools or systems |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Databases - General - Computers | User Interfaces - Language Arts & Disciplines | Library & Information Science - General |
| Dewey: 025.04 |
| LCCN: 2007029784 |
| Series: Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 7.58" W x 9.24" (2.17 lbs) 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management is the first comprehensive book on new 'favorite child' of R&D at Microsoft and elsewhere, personal information management (PIM). It provides a comprehensive overview of PIM as both a study and a practice of the activities people do, and need to be doing, so that information can work for them in their daily lives. It explores what good and better PIM looks like, and how to measure improvements. It presents key questions to consider when evaluating any new PIM informational tools or systems. This book is designed for R&D professionals in HCI, data mining and data management, information retrieval, and related areas, plus developers of tools and software that include PIM solutions. |