A quiet sunday morning, I’m channel surfing on my big screen when I come across an enticing teaser on the Wolters Kluwer Channel. I carrousel through the Health and Tax panels and select Legal. I start reading the news articles and a particular phrase intrigues me. I spread my arms to zoom in and make a left to right swiping gesture in the air to select it… Read further >

Creating a positive user experience out of a single content asset is more challenging than ever. Just think about a single treatise. It can be available today in print, CD-ROM, as an ebook on the Kindle device, the Kindle Cloud Reader or the Kindle iPad app. It could be available on the Kindle Fire, taking advantage of color and graphics. It could be available as a PDF accessible through the Kindle, iPad, or a PC’s deskt0p. There are many ways to make it available through the iPhone. It also could be accessed through a Web-based research application, such as IntelliConnect. In the context of Web-based research applications, user experience can differ according to the type of browser used – Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer – and even the version of a particular browser, such as Internet Explorer 8 versus Internet Explorer 9. Early adopters might be experimenting with Internet Explorer 10. It’s a multichannel, multi-browser world. Read further >

I assume you have heard about Flipboard, and bet that if you own an iPad you may be a Flipboard user just like me. For those not familiar with Flipboard, think of it as your very own personal social magazine. The Flipboard app pulls information from the web, both from news sources and from your friends pages and services, like Facebook and Twitter. All this information is presented automatically in an appealing magazine-like format. Needless to say the content of your magazine is updated continuously.

Personal settings travel with you
Recently Flipboard released a new version and introduced Flipboard Accounts. I believe this is a big deal in those environments and households where not every single individual has its own iPad. With Flipboard accounts you can share an iPad but still have your own very personal Flipboard magazine. As the company states; “With Accounts, your reading preferences stay with you no matter how you access Flipboard. For example, families and friends who share an iPad can log into Flipboard and find their favorite sections.” Read further >

As of September 30, 2011, more than 114,000 providers have registered for the electronic health records (EHR) incentive programs under Medicare, Medicaid or both. Of these, 88,399 physicians and hospitals have registered for the Medicare incentive program, 24,030 for the Medicaid program and 2,215 for both programs. Read further >

Legal research has passed the crossroads of print or digital and is heading for the next: facts or concepts. But are search engines getting too “easy” to use? Is the “dumbing down” of legal search engines a real threat to the quality of legal research? Read further >

A survey of more than 600 lenders in the mortgage market which was undertaken in April 2010 by Wolters Kluwer Financial Services found 76 percent were still relying on an inefficient paper-based method to process mortgages. The top reasons lenders had not implemented an electronic solution were security of borrower data, high implementation costs, and the potential impact to lending workflow. The OneFile mortgage workflow solution offered by Wolters Kluwer Financial Services helps lenders overcome all of these obstacles. Read further >

I use several technical devices: a laptop computer, an iPad2, a BlackBerry smart phone, and a personal cell phone. I like having a choice of devices to communicate with others and to do my work, but I’m starting to wonder whether all our customers want the same thing. Read further >

In 2008 Clay Shirky coined the phrase “It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.” In 2011 this was reversed by Nicolas Carr stating: “It’s not information overload. It’s filter success.” He also stated that we were in fact getting dumbed down by filters like Google. Eli Pariser at TED gave a presentation called Beware online “filter bubbles” which gave a warning of the dangers of filters and personalization. So are we going filter mad? Read further >

I’ve been a long-term subscriber to the online edition of the Wall Street Journal but recently upgraded to the Wall Street Journal Professional Edition with Factiva. Now I already subscribe to Factiva at work, but that subscription is for use at work. I certainly can access the Wall Street Journal through it. I know the value of Factiva as a value-added aggregator of news and business information. It offers content in multiple languages, organizes all of that content under standardized metadata, and presents it with helpful post-search filters. I receive email alerts. Factiva organizes tens of thousands of commercial publications and public websites by a search box and topics, not by a particular publication. Read further >

I think that the answer is “no.” Insights from publishing history reveals why. Print-based publishing evolved over hundreds of years and developed standard templates for expressing knowledge: hard and soft-bound books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and looseleafs. Re-usable navigation tools appeared across these print products, including tables of contents, topical and keyword indexes, chapters, sections and sub-sections, paragraphs and page numbers. Read further >