Network Information Advisor Interview On Social Graphing
Posted on May 31, 2008 01:55:19 PM
Today, I was interviewed for the December issue of the Information Advisor (knowledge management supplement), this is subscription only…still awaiting my copy. The interview was edited to fit the supplement format, but it has been posted in full at Robert Berkman’s Intelligent Agent blog, the post is John Tropea of LibraryClips discusses enterprise social graph searching. With Robert’s permission I have included the interview here. This space is so fast and still a bit blurry (everyone has their own interpretation)…this interview was back at the start of November, a lot has happened and talked about in this time. In the interim I posted something on this same topic, see Social network and graph ecology. Interview In the December issue of The Information Advisor’s quarterly knowledge management supplement, on an article on Twine and social graph searching, I wrote up an excerpt of an interview with John Tropea, a librarian and blogger at LibraryClips who has spent a great deal of time thinking and writing about social networks and graphs. I could only fit a short portion of the interview in our print publication—here is the entire interview, conducted by email: (apologies for the lack of embedded links!) 1. First, can you tell me a but about your background and blog? In the information industry I have mainly worked as an academic librarian for an Australian college of natural medicine, several non-profit psychotherapy libraries, and about a year ago I moved from our Engineering corporate library to the document management team. As a corporate librarian the focus was on conducting research/analysis and delivery, in a way I was like a consultant working for many projects within our organization.Besides running the library the other main focus was a weekly blog of the latest industry news. …
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