Category: Information Overload – Practitioner

I recently heard a rather scary story. An organisation (let’s call them the.org) needed to make some “efficiencies” to their budget. That’s a euphemism of course for doing the same […]

Of all the desperate signs by management to promote employee “loyalty” this one has got to top the ones I’ve seen. And no I have no idea what this one […]

Reminder time: And before you roll your eyes, it is very important. If you are working on contract through an employment agency (not just IEA of course) you are covered […]

No matter which HR magazine I pick up and read, no matter what the date on the cover is, they are all saying pretty much the same thing.   There […]

Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough. Alain de Botton  We can all be guilty of thinking we don’t have enough time to […]

With all the bad news we have been hearing about libraries closing, services and staff being cut in a bid to save the almighty dollar, I have some good news […]

As you know, the start of every new year is a good time to look at what you want to achieve during the year.  It is also a good time […]

Apologies for the lack of news updates this year but after writing these newsletters for over 5 years I do find it a little difficult to find a topic that […]

I read with interest a message re-posted to the WAIN list (West Australian Information Network) this morning regarding the closure of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry library in […]

As we mentioned in the April edition of this newsletter new work health and safety laws are on the way (assuming of course the governments don’t change in the mean […]