Working holidays
What did you do on your holiday? Did it include working? Our employees should relax on holiday and not read work-related emails. German car manufacturer Daimler has been in the news with its employee...
View ArticleChildren and teenagers online
According to recent reports, Google is working on child-friendly versions of some of its services. At the moment Google services are age-restricted (to over 13-years old in the United States; over 16...
View ArticleTime wasting at work
How much time is wasted at work being non-productive – and what can be done to improve the situation? In Sweden, several employees of the Social Insurance Agency have been discovered browsing on the...
View ArticleWorkplace trends – meet the no-collar workers
If you’ve just about got your Gen-X and Gen-Y straight, meet a new group of workers. There are already, according to the latest estimates, 40 million millennials in the American workforce. A recent...
View ArticleAccess to the Internet
Google wants to use satellite technology to improve connectivity At the beginning of 2014, there were estimated to be between 2.5 and 3 billion internet users around the world – that’s around 35% of...
View ArticleThe second digital revolution
New information seeking behaviours mean libraries and publishers have to change. People are increasingly creating and consuming information on the move. This, combined with the growth of cloud-based...
View ArticleSharing, collaboration and getting it wrong
There’s nothing like a headline telling you you’ve got it wrong to make you read on. An article on Time.com written by a data analytics expert tells us ‘What [we] think [we] know about the Web is...
View ArticleYouth TV – ‘the need for speed’
The BBC’s youth TV channel to close; but a different story emerges in Belgium In the UK the BBC has announced that it is to close its ‘youth-oriented’ TV channel and move the content onto its online...
View ArticlePizzas, selfies and swearing – new data-led research
Some interesting data-crunching research projects A new report considers the demographics of selfies in five cities around the world: Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York and Sao Paolo. 20-30,000 images...
View ArticleWomen in business – still under-represented at the top
“Still no progress after years of no progress” Gender equality in politics continues to be a news story. In the UK, the leader of the opposition stated the Prime Minister was failing women. Four...
View ArticleBeing happy with the ordinary
Researchers explore what makes us happy – and how this changes with age. In a series of studies, Cassie Mogilner and Amit Bhattacharjee considered what they defined as ‘ordinary’ and ‘extraordinary’...
View ArticleHow to be happy – love, friendship and altruism
The Grant Study is a 75-year longitudinal study of Harvard graduates (1939-1944) and ‘disadvantaged’ youths growing up in Boston (1940-1945). All white American men, the subjects were followed for 68...
View ArticleFrom Selfish Giant to Slumdog Millionaire – lessons from Channel 4 film and...
Sometimes it is good to step outside of the information echo chamber. What can we learn from leaders in another profession – one which seeks to balance creative vision with tight budgets; is...
View ArticleWomen at work – quotas, booth babes and clones
Two of Germany’s political parties have reached a policy compromise supporting the ‘Frauenquote’ – a move to regulate the representation of women on the boards of large companies. The policy would...
View ArticleTeenagers, Facebook and message apps
If teenagers are losing interest in Facebook, where are going – and why? Facebook’s Q3 earnings statement revealed that it had exceeded its revenue targets. However, in the company’s accompanying...
View ArticleDigital romance and relationships
“Living like a 1950s housewife has saved me money, helped me lose weight and kept my marriage strong”. Leafing despondently through a copy of WI Life, I came across this feature. The interviewee and...
View ArticlePublic access to ICT: Another reason why libraries matter!
The Technology and Social Change Group of the University of Washington’s Library School published its report of the five-year project exploring the impact of public access to ICT around the world. The...
View ArticleMOOCs and librarians – fulfilling the potential
Recent OECD research measured the literacy, numeracy and information skills of adults in 24 countries. The results show how the divide between those who have skills and those who do not can be...
View ArticleDigital skills for life: OECD survey
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) has published the initial results of its worldwide survey of adults’ skills. The report focuses on the literacy, numeracy and ‘key...
View ArticleCyberbullying, trolls and good manners
Anti-bullying charity Ditch the Label has surveyed over 10,000 young people in the UK about their experiences of cyberbullying. 70% of respondents aged between 13 and 22 claim to have been victims of...
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