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The letter 'd' stands for defense in sports parlance. No matter how many points are added to the board, experts agree that the difference between winning and losing comes down [...]

Once again this month, I'm devoting my entire column to one Information Today, Inc. newsletter. This time, I'm focusing on two articles from the May issue of The CyberSkeptic's Guide [...]

Any kind of barrier can keep people from reaching goals, literally or figuratively. In this month's column, I'm focusing on two articles from the April issue of The Information Advisor [...]

It's always good to take stock of what you have once in a while. This month, I'm highlighting articles from the March/April issues of Intranets and MLS that do just [...]

Remember those clever Yellow Pages ads, 'Let your fingers do the walking'? The idea behind these 'hand-y' commercials was to let you use the telephone directory to find what you [...]

Both the January/February issues of MLS and Intranets look at drawing people in, each in its own way: MLS offers tips about how to do it 'Literally,' while Intranets is [...]

I hit the Big 5-0 in December. While I don't feel older, I don't always focus as well as I used to, or so it seems. So if you're feeling [...]

This month, as I add the finishing touches to another year of IT columns, I'm taking a look at articles from the November/ December issues of MLS: Marketing Library Services [...]

Judging from the title, this isn't going to be a column highlighting an episode of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader with members of Jersey Shore as contestants. Instead, [...]

Two articles from the September/October issue of Intranets look at how much (and how quickly) people engage in online media, whether for socializing or for work. Each article points out [...]

For this column, I'm focusing on articles from the July/ August issues of The CyberSkeptics Guide to Internet Research and MLS: Marketing Library Services. But I'll warn you right now: [...]

Grab your virtual passport. We're going on a whirlwind summer vacation guided by articles from the May/June issue of Intranets and the May issue of The CyberSkeptics Guide to Internet [...]

Tablets have been around since biblical times when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments on those stone plaques. Moses learned an important lesson about always backing [...]

When I think of the magnificent architecture from ancient Greece or Rome, often the images of pillars or columns come to mind. Without them, colossal structures such as the Parthenon [...]

This month's column is devoted entirely to MLS: Marketing Library Services. And there's a theme that ties it all together: Making personal connections is the way to get just about [...]

Two hot topics that always generate controversy are taxes and firearms. As the tax season looms ever nearer and as the nation still recovers from the shooting rampage in Tucson, [...]

This month, we're turning the spotlight on The Information Advisor (IA) for the first time. Published monthly and edited by Robert Berkman, IA also has a four-page quarterly supplement called [...]

After spending 2010 chronicling ITI's 30-year history, I went back to the drawing board for this year. Luckily, IT editor-in-chief Barbara Brynko had a novel, er, make that a newsletter, [...]

Calling all SOBs (Supporters of Bill, as in Clinton, and you know who you are). Warner New Media, in association with Epicenter Communications and Amazing Media, has something you may […]

In my previous column, I described how Information Today, Inc. (ITI) started acquiring and adding key publishing companies and conferences to the ITI family. In this column, I'm taking a [...]

When ITI was born as Learned Information, Inc. in 1980, baseball fans in the Delaware Valley went crazy as the Philadelphia Phillies won their first-ever World Series in October. Thirty [...]

So far this year, we've spent months chronicling the birth and growth of Information Today, Inc. (ITI). It all started with Learned Information, Inc. and the National Online Meeting. Then [...]

I thought this continuation of how our book publishing division came into existence deserved its own preface. Last issue, I covered the basic history of the book department, which was [...]

While Learned Information, Inc. had been in the publishing business since 1980, the company had almost exclusively focused on periodicals. Information Today (IT) was its flagship newspaper, geared to library [...]

On my first day at Learned Information in May 1986, I knew my new job as advertising and marketing assistant would open up a whole new world for me. The [...]

For a long time in Information Today, Inc.'s history, the National Online Meeting (NOM) was the only conference the company produced. But in late 1994, Tom Hogan was brokering a [...]

In my last column, we left off in 1983, 3 years after Learned Information, Inc. was incorporated. If it weren't for the National Online Meeting (NOM), there would be no [...]

In mid-1985, Learned Information was about to turn 5. The National Online Meeting had finished its 6th successful showing in New York City. And Information Today, which was in its [...]

According to traditional etiquette, pearls are the appropriate gift for a 30th wedding anniversary. So in 2010, as Information Today, Inc. celebrates its 30th year in the information industry, my [...]

Have you ever wondered if you made the right career decision? Maybe you should have toughed out Calculus and gone into engineering. Dissecting a fetal pig might have been worth […]

The new service will be a meeting place for buyers and sellers. Move over Home Shopping Network, you're about to get a new online competitor. But this won't be just […]

Who would have thought a 19th century priest from Paris would end up editing a 221-volume anthology that 200 years later is cited by the New York Public Library as […]

Alright, so any research librarian or information center manager worth their weight in CD-ROMs knows what online vendors to dial-up for the latest international business news, legal queries, financial reports, […]

It's hard to believe that I'm writing my last column for the December issue. During the past year, I've profiled the editors for most of ITI's publications. The last two […]

It was a busy September for Hugh McKellar, the editor-in-chief at KMWorld. In between his daughter's wedding and all his deadlines, he still managed to find some spare time to […]

Joni Mitchell was right when she wrote the lyrics to 'The Circle Game' more than 40 years ago: 'We can't return, we can only look behind from where we came […]

When we were talking on the phone about this interview, Marydee Ojala and I were trying to figure out just how long we've known each other. In short, it's been […]

It's time to profile another editor whom I have only started to get to know in the past few years. David Myron, who works on two of Information Today, Inc.'s […]

It's a good thing Michelle Manafy multitasks well. When she took time to answer my questions, she was in the middle of doing podcasts for the Enterprise Search Summit conference, […]

When a creative project brought them together in college at Ohio State, Tory Cox and Dick Kaser probably couldn't have imagined that, decades later, they would be happily married and […]

To kick off my new column last issue, I interviewed Barbara Quint, world-renowned info pro and editor-in-chief of Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals. Having worked with bq for 16-plus […]

It's hard to imagine that many people within the library and information fields don't know what the initials 'bq' stand for: Barbara Quint. Consequently, as I kick off my new […]

Music Collectables Makes a 'Note' able Impression Attention all music buffs--especially those of you looking for a hard-to-find 45 or album. CompuServe's Music Collectibles (a subsection of the Collectibles Forum) […]

Are You Game for Metropolis? Picture a city that's part of a futuristic universe with a culture and language all its own, where people react and interact on a variety […]

In case you haven't noticed, the box office is filled with sequels this summer. Actually, it's more like three-peats: Pirates of the Caribbean is sailing on its third voyage; Spider-Man […]

It's hard for me to believe, but this June marks the 30th anniversary of my 3-week trek across the country with my sister, brother-in-law, and his sister. We drove west […]

Linnea Christiani and her family like to travel during vacations--travel up, that is. In the January 2007 (Vol. 15, No. 1) cover story for Searcher, 'High Technology: Online on Everest,' […]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $2 million grant to WebJunction to enhance the usability of the Web site and keep it in pace with its audience […]