- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition (9 Nov 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0123708664
- ISBN-13: 978-0123708663
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 19.3 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 819,626 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A must- read for designers, developers, librarians, and anyone else who cares about the future of information interaction. --Peter Morville, Author of, Ambient Findability, and Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
Today, software can deliver unprecedented support for managing our ever more copious information. This landmark book provides detailed knowledge of behavior and technology that is essential for effective design and use of these productivity tools. --Jonathan Grudin, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
This is an important book. Its theme is powerful and timely. The treatment combines keen observation, practical insight, and broad vision in way seldom seen. --Clayton Lewis, Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado
Today, software can deliver unprecedented support for managing our ever more copious information. This landmark book provides detailed knowledge of behavior and technology that is essential for effective design and use of these productivity tools. --Jonathan Grudin, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
This is an important book. Its theme is powerful and timely. The treatment combines keen observation, practical insight, and broad vision in way seldom seen. --Clayton Lewis, Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado
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We need information to make good decisions, to get things done, to learn, and to gain better mastery of the world around us. But we do not always have good control of our information - not even in the 'home waters' of an office or on the hard drive of a computer. Instead, information may be controlling us - keeping us from doing the things we need to do, getting us to waste money and precious time. The growth of available information, plus the technologies for its creation, storage, retrieval, distribution and use, is astonishing and sometimes bewildering. Can there be a similar growth in our understanding for how best to manage information and informational tools? This book provides a comprehensive overview of personal information management (PIM) as both a study and a practice of the activities people do and need to be doing so that information can work for them in their daily lives. Introductory chapters of "Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management" provide an overview of PIM and a sense for its many facets. The next chapters look more closely at the essential challenges of PIM, including finding, keeping, organizing, maintaining, managing privacy, and managing information flow. The book also contains chapters on search, email, mobile PIM, web-based support, and other technologies relevant to PIM. It focuses exclusively on one of the most interesting and challenging problems in today's world. It explores what good and better PIM looks like, and how to measure improvements. It presents key questions to consider when evaluating any new PIM informational tools or systems.
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This book is a good starting point of delving into dynamic interactions between people who have been using information in everyday lives or workplace and their endeavours to re-use such constructive information in the future. Unlike many books in the market that purely focus on information management technology, William Jones did an excellent job by integrating three areas of information studies - cognitive psychology, human information behaviour, and information and knowledge management - under the new label called Personal Information Management (PIM). He also delivers knowledge and research on PIM to layperson brilliantly through his plain language even though several examples, interview excerpts and case studies presented in his book seem to orientate towards human psychology in the American context of information society due to his working background. It is a recommended book if someday you feel curious to know about the rationale behind the design and usability of human-made web services in the modern world.
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A great book that gives the reader the ultimate tour of Personal Information Management. In a "content is king" world not much thought has been given to organizing what is read and found using eg. The Web. This book will give users and developers many good ideas how to make information even more useful and managed for easy retrieval when needed.
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Many thanks to the author for doing a great job and assembling his advanced knowledge and experience in personal information management (PIM) domain into this book. PIM research is still very young, a rapid step from physical to digital environment has been mainly done on the cost of the user. Nowadays attention has been shifted to the user side. Companies that design and develop Information Management systems start paying more and more attention to PIM from an individual user perspective. The PIM research therefore flourishes, however, a solid, fundamental background was still missing. Many good works have been presented in PIM research over the last years, but this one is different for its fundamental, grounded approach towards PIM as a science. It is, on the other hand, full of practical, real life experiences and comments that make the book useful for a broad audience: from students to teachers, from software developers to project managers.
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