Leader's Digest August 2008
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Leader's Digest August 2008
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by Leslie Dillon
- Items moved elsewhere have been replaced by links to those articles.
People
Retaining retiring workers
Now in Problematic and star employees
Leadership
The art of woo: selling your ideas
Now in Moving from idea to reality
Ten ways to help your staff "get it done"!
Now in Moving from idea to reality
Technology
Mobile marketing
Now in Mobile notes
Libraries and mobile technologies
Now in Mobile notes
Resources for libraries and mobile technologies
Now in Mobile notes
Wiki 2.0: the future library?
Now in Wikipedia notes
Android: the Google phone initiative
Now in Mobile notes
The impact of Apple’s new iPhone
Now in Mobile notes
Not moved elsewhere
How cool is Cuil?
I had tried Cuil and didn’t like it. So I was about to dismiss it until I read Daniel Freeman’s recent posts on ALA’s TechSource blog.
When it was launched, Freeman described Cuil as being “of particular interest to librarians because its new features attempt to provide a more nuanced, interactive set of search results. In other words, Cuil tries to emulate the experience of a more professional search, the kind you might get with the assistance of a librarian.”
More recently he praised librarians’ efforts to explore Cuil. “But it’s not whether or not librarians like Cuil— and it’s too soon to tell anyway–that makes our discussion so good, it’s the fact that we are exploring it.” While it’s highly likely that at least for a while Google will remain “the unrivaled leader among search engines,” Cuil is a “reminder that as long as there is freedom of ideas, there will be freedom of choice. It doesn’t matter if Cuil is a threat to Google or not. As the first high-profile effort to try to improve upon Google’s core model, Cuil matters.”
Also, Greg Notess says that “Cuil has the potential to be a useful resource in the searcher’s toolkit.” Read more in his article in Information Today’s NewsBreaks.
(Daniel A. Freeman, TechSource blog, Jul. 28, 2008 & Aug. 1, 2008; Greg R. Notess, "Cuil: a new search engine to watch," Information Today’s News Breaks, Aug. 7, 2008.)
