Yet media companies remain curiously fragmented in their own
information space.
So as I often ask in these columns: What would I do?
First of all, I would gather together all the people in the
company who collect and analyze information for a one-day
"knowledge-fest."
Some will be in editorial, some in advertising, some in
circulation, some in "research" some in digital, and ... well
anyone else who wants to turn up. They'll then share what they
collect, and its relative benefit to everyone else.
Secondly, I would create a "knowledge hub" - an intelligence
center - charged with integrating and redistributing the content
from all the different sources, across the entire organization.
anonymous on 03 Sep 10Today we're introducing Google Fusion Tables on Labs, an experimental system for data management in the cloud. It draws on the expertise of folks within Google Research who have been studying collaboration, data integration, and user requirements from a variety of domains. Fusion Tables is not a traditional database system focusing on complicated SQL queries and transaction processing. Instead, the focus is on fusing data management and collaboration: merging multiple data sources, discussion of the data, querying, visualization, and Web publishing. We plan to iteratively add new features to the systems as we get feedback from users.
Gary Colet on 06 Sep 10Michael, It's interesting that I had already Diigo bookmarked Google Fusion Labs on 26th August. This illustrates something I was observing with Steve the other day; that social bookmarking seems to be 'one-way'. In other words we all stuff things into Diigo, but why? Other than transitory email alerts to new bookmarks, I have no feel for emerging themes, or common bookmarks via Diigo. This is something the Knowledge Hub will no doubt surface in activity streams and emerging themes (I hope!)
