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Google Launches Industrial Strength Blog Search
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Google has introduced its long awaited blog search service, becoming the first major search engine to offer full-blown blog and feed search capabilities. It's been nearly two and a half years since Google purchased Pyra Labs, the company that built the hugely popular Blogger publishing service, and Google has been promising blog search ever since then. Know more @ http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3548411 Regards Sreeharsha BG

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request for journal
by sheeba jasmine 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Dear Friends, One of colleague is urgently looking for some journal articles for his research work. Kindly inform the availability of these articles. 1. Current Science of India V.25, p.143, 1956 2. Tetrahedran V.9, p.139 - 144, 1960 3. Olah 205 V.3, p.383 - 497 , 1964 4. Journal of Chemical Society B 579, 1966 5. Organic Reaction V.9, p.37 - 72 , 1957 With regards, D. Sheeba Jebaseeli, Librarian, Valliammai Engineering College, SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur 603 203 nalathamalar(a)yahoo.co.in __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Google is Every Where
by Roopa E 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Dear professionals, Google is coming to the rescue of victims of Hurricane Katrina using Mapping Technology. It is evident that google is every where. In an effort to help displaced hurricane victims and their families, ad hoc communities of Internet users are using mapping technologies from Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) to track storm damage, analyze aerial photos and try to make sense of what little information is available. Three days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf of Mexico, extensive flooding, widespread power outages and general chaos continue to prevent residents from returning home, and limit the amount of useful information emergency workers or members of the media can distribute to the world outside. What little information about individual neighborhoods gets out is spotty, at best, and hard to come by--largely from dramatic, but ill-defined TV news footage. "We're seeing a lot of images from New Orleans that lack context," says Shawn McBride, a phone switch technician from Spokane, Wash., who has been using satellite photos from the Google Earth service to track flooding and analyze damage to neighborhoods. "It's impossible to tell from the outside how things are." But along comes Google. One Web site, www.scipionus.com, is combating the confusion by encouraging users to annotate a Google Map of New Orleans with information about specific locations. Collectively, the community is creating a collaborative map Wikipedia. Anyone with something to add can enter a street address and leave a marker on the map at that location, providing a few lines of text about conditions at that spot. "Never flooded, typical wind damage, passable street 8-31-05," reads one tag. "Trey and April's We are OK ppl," reports another. The site, created by Jonathan Mendez and Greg Stoll, software engineers who work together in Austin, Texas, went up Wednesday afternoon, and already has attracted nearly 300,000 visitors, who've left more than 600 tags. Mendez, who grew up in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, La., has family who evacuated the area to his home in Texas. "We all were watching the news and scouring the Web for any information we could get," he says. "There were forums set up for people looking for information on particular areas, but they had hundreds of posts with mostly questions and little information, and it was hard to read through it all. I kept thinking, 'I wish there were a map with all this info, so it would be easy to look this up.'" The site runs off of the same technology that has allowed Google users to keep track of everything from potholes to pizza parlors. In June, the company released code that allowed outside developers to use and adapt the Google Maps software. In the months since, Google "mashups" of geographic data have flourished. "My friend Greg had played with it to make a map with markers to particular locations, so I figured if we could get it so that anyone could add those markers straight from the Web, we could get the information on the map quickly," says Mendez. "People have said they've found it very useful." In a separate effort, other Web users have also made use of satellite photographs of the region available through the Google Earth service, a program which allows users to view satellite photos as if they were flying over them, panning, zooming and tilting the image at will. While most of those photos depict the area pre-hurricane, the software allows users to "overlay" other photos and images. So more recent aerial photos--even pictures from news services and solo photographers--can be reshaped and dropped onto a satellite map, illustrating the current conditions. Pleasantville, N.Y.-based editor and blogger Katherine Cramer helped popularize the practice, after she noticed similarities between a Google Earth shot of the south coast of Lake Pontchartrain, and a news photo illustrating a nearly swamped New Orleans neighborhood. "I looked at those and said, 'Somebody needs to be putting these images together and comparing them.'" Cramer posted a few thoughts on her Web site, which was linked to by Boing Boing, a hugely popular blog, and before long, she was getting e-mails and mashed-together images from people around the country. "Suddenly we had an impromptu collaborative process, mostly consisting of people I don't know," says Cramer. Shawn McBride made some of the first post-Katrina images, and posted them online in the Google Earth Current Events Community, a discussion board for users of the system. "Once you have an image that you want superimposed, it's kind of like a puzzle," he says. Photo manipulators look for distinguishing landmarks that appear in both news photos and the Google images--a warehouse with a red roof, for instance--and then stretch and tilt the photo until it lines up with the satellite map. The resulting image is sort of a hybrid overlay that can be directly viewed and manipulated in the Google Earth service, allowing users to see recent images of their neighborhood, inside the context of the entire city. "It's not as good as the original satellite image, but you can get a sense of whether a house is underwater or not," says Cramer. Cramer has posted a series of directions on her site describing how to use Google Earth to check out flood damage in New Orleans. "I wanted to come up with a process for your average frightened person, who can get at the Internet, but is not able to learn new software," she says. "I've had a lot of people say they couldn't find this information until they came to my site." Google Earth images with post-hurricane overlays even appeared on television Thursday, as a number of news networks used the tool to zoom in and out of affected areas to display the damage. Representatives of Google say they encourage this creative use of their mapping technology. "We've been kind of nurturing and growing that for the past two years," says John Hanke, former CEO of Keyhole, a digital mapping company acquired by Google in October of last year, who now serves as general manager of the Keyhole group at Google. On Thursday, Google began releasing new images of the flooded areas, and even posted links to a number of user-supplied image overlays. Hanke says the company will continue to make available new images over the next few days, and that Digital Globe, their satellite provider, is continuing to photograph the area.

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PROF. K.A. ISAAC PASSED AWAY
by Sadasivan KP 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Dear Friends / LIS Professionals, I am reporting with deep sorrow, the sad demise of Professor K.A. Isaac , on 12th Sep. 2005 at night ! Professor Isaac was the former University Librarian & Head of the Dept. of Library & Information Science, University of Kerala. He was the recipient of the Fellowship of the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation. Prof. Isaac had held several important assignments, which included, Senate Member and Dean of Faculty of Arts of the University of Kerala, Governing Body Member of INSDOC, Special Officer (Library) of the M.G. University, UGC Professor, Chairman / Member of several Commissions & Committees, etc. Prof. Isaac, an ardent disciple of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan, was responsible for initiating and developing the professional Library Science Education in Kerala through the DLIS of the University of Kerala, which he spearheaded for two-and-a-half decades since its inception. He had significantly contributed to the Public Library Movement and the Special Library development in the State too. Better known as the 'Father of Professional Librarianship in Kerala' and the 'Gentleman Librarian of India' , he was a beacon for LIS professionals - both young and old. His hundreds of disciples now stretch across the world, carrying out their professional jobs with mission mode. He had authored a number of well-known books including the titles 'Library Legislation' , ' Literature Search' and several Papers and Reports. Prof. Isaac had been the Patron of the Kerala Library Association too. The blend of his highly intellectual personality and refined behaviour made him a respected friend to limitless people cutting across all professions .That was the secret of his success too, for effectively disseminating the message of our profession to a wider domain - something very rare during these days! His demise is a great loss to the education sector in general and to the LIS domain, in particular! He is survived by his wife Chechamma and sons Madhu (Advocate, Trivandrum) and Balu (Professor, IIT Bombay) . Cremation : on 14.09.2005 (Wednesday) at 10.30 am at Pattoor Orthodox Cemetery, Trivandrum. Residential Address : G-10, 'Kadapuram' Shri Vidyadhiraja Nagar Poojapura, Trivandrum - 695 012 Tel : 91-471-2359502 Reported by : KP Sadasivan / Head, Library & Informatics / RRL (CSIR) Trivandrum and Vice President, Kerala Library Association __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Friends / LIS Professionals, I am reporting with deep sorrow, the sad demise of Professor K.A. Isaac , on 12th Sep. 2005 at night ! Professor Isaac was the former University Librarian & Head of the Dept. of Library & Information Science, University of Kerala. He was the recipient of the Fellowship of the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation. Prof. Isaac had held several important assignments, which included, Senate Member and Dean of Faculty of Arts of the University of Kerala, Governing Body Member of INSDOC, Special Officer (Library) of the M.G. University, UGC Professor, Chairman / Member of several Commissions & Committees, etc. Prof. Isaac, an ardent disciple of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan, was responsible for initiating and developing the professional Library Science Education in Kerala through the DLIS of the University of Kerala, which he spearheaded for two-and-a-half decades since its inception. He had significantly contributed to the Public Library Movement and the Special Library development in the State too. Better known as the 'Father of Professional Librarianship in Kerala' and the 'Gentleman Librarian of India' , he was a beacon for LIS professionals - both young and old. His hundreds of disciples now stretch across the world, carrying out their professional jobs with mission mode. He had authored a number of well-known books including the titles 'Library Legislation' , ' Literature Search' and several Papers and Reports. Prof. Isaac had been the Patron of the Kerala Library Association too. The blend of his highly intellectual personality and refined behaviour made him a respected friend to limitless people cutting across all professions .That was the secret of his success too, for effectively disseminating the message of our profession to a wider domain - something very rare during these days! His demise is a great loss to the education sector in general and to the LIS domain, in particular! He is survived by his wife Chechamma and sons Madhu (Advocate, Trivandrum) and Balu (Professor, IIT Bombay) . Cremation : on 14.09.2005 (Wednesday) at 10.30 am at Pattoor Orthodox Cemetery, Trivandrum. Residential Address : G-10, 'Kadapuram' Shri Vidyadhiraja Nagar Poojapura, Trivandrum - 695 012 Tel : 91-471-2359502 Reported by : KP Sadasivan / Head, Library & Informatics / RRL (CSIR) Trivandrum and Vice President, Kerala Library Association __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Course on IT Application ...
by Puttaraj Choukimath 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Hi e'body, IT Application in Libraries and in Information Management The National Documentation Centre (NDC) of National Institute of Health & Family Welfare (NIHFW), New Delhi is an apex Documentation Center in India in the field of Population, Health & Family Welfare. The collection of the Documentation Center has grown to approximately 60,000 including bound journals. In addition to all the conventional services of a Documentation Center, it is fully automated & also provides modem services such as CD-ROM databases, On-line access at LAN, OPAC, etc. NDC has its own website and a bibliographic database of complete collection is ready to access on Internet through this site www.ndc-nihfw.org. Beside the above activities, NDC has been conducting a training course since last five years on IT Application in Libraries and Information Management. The next course seventh in its series is scheduled to be held from November 7-11, 2005. During the course, all the burning topics such as, Library Automation, Application Software, Online Access, CD-ROM Databases, LAN, Multimedia Application for Information Management & Preservation, Electronics Publishing, Digital Library, Web designing, Web Authoring, Net surfing, etc. will be discussed. Practical Demonstrations, Practical Assignment and field visit will also be arranged. Scholars interested in attending the Course may contact Sh. Salek Chand, Sr. Documentation Officer and Coordinator of the Course, National Documentation Center, NIHFW, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110 067. Ph.II-26165959, Fax 11-26101623, Email: salekchand2003(a)yahoo.com UNIVERSITY NEWS, 43 (34), AUGUST 22-28, 2005, pp.18-19 Note: Reply from the Course Coordinator Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:05:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "SALEK CHAND" <salekchand2003(a)yahoo.com> Subject: IT course To: afzal333(a)rediffmail.com, cusmclib08(a)yahoo.com, brjd(a)rediffmail.com, puttuc(a)yahoo.com Dear Colleagues I appreciate your keen intrest in this course. The main features of the course are:- 1. No course fee 2. Lodging and boarding facilities are available with in the campus at very nominal cost. 3. Local site seeing programme also arranged on 10/11/05. 4. Contents are based on Latest Information Technologies. 5. Nomination should be sent on institute's letterhead. 6. You can join this course only after getting confirmation from our us. Rest is OK SALEK CHAND. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Hi e'body, IT Application in Libraries and in Information Management The National Documentation Centre (NDC) of National Institute of Health & Family Welfare (NIHFW), New Delhi is an apex Documentation Center in India i n the field of Population, Health & Family Welfare. The collection of the Documentation Center has grown to approximately 60,000 including bound journals. In addition to all the conventional services of a Documentation Center, it is fully automated & also provides modem services such as CD-ROM databases, On-line access at LAN, OPAC, etc. NDC has its own website and a bibliographic database of complete collection is ready to access on Internet through this site http://www.ndc-nihfw.org/ www.ndc-nihfw.org . Beside the above activities, NDC has been conducting a training course since last five years on IT Application in Libraries and Information Management. The next course seventh in its series is scheduled to be held from November 7-11, 2005. During the course, all the burning topics such as, Library Automation, Application Software, Online Access, CD-ROM Databases, LAN, Multimedia Application for Information Management & Preservation, Electronics Publishing, Digital Library, Web designing, Web Authoring, Net surfing, etc. will be discussed. Practical Demonstrations, Practical Assignment and field visit will also be arranged. Scholars interested in attending the Course may contact Sh. Salek Chand, Sr. Documentation Officer and Coordinator of the Course, National Documentation Center, NIHFW, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110 067. Ph.II-26165959, Fax 11-26101623, Email: salekchand2003(a)yahoo.com UNIVERSITY NEWS, 43 (34), AUGUST 22-28, 2005, pp.18-19 Note: Reply from the Course Coordinator http://mail.yahoo.com/ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:05:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "SALEK CHAND" <salekchand2003(a)yahoo.com> Subject: IT course To: afzal333(a)rediffmail.com, cusmclib08(a)yahoo.com, brjd(a)rediffmail.com, puttuc(a)yahoo.com Dear Colleagues I appreciate your keen intrest in this course. The main features of the course are:- 1. No course fee 2. Lodging and boarding facilities are available with in the campus at very nominal cost. 3. Local site seeing programme also arranged on 10/11/05. 4. Contents are based on Latest Information Technologies. 5. Nomination should be sent on institute's letterhead. 6. You can join this course only after getting confirmation from our us. Rest is OK SALEK CHAND. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: mailto:puttuc@yahoo.com puttuc(a)yahoo.com , mailto:choukimath@tiss.edu choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: http://www.tiss.edu www.tiss.edu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Request for announcement on Lis-Forum
by Ratnakar Aspari 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

We will be thankful if you kindly post the following item on the Lis-Forum. With best wishes A. Ratnakar New Delhi _____________________________________________________________________________ RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE Cordially invites you to VIIIth C V SUBBARAO Memorial Lecture at the Auditorium Hall, Sahitya Akademi, Firoz Shah Road, (Near Mandi House Chock) New Delhi On September 17th, 2005 Saturday at 10.00 A.M. VIIIth C V Subbarao Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Dr. K L Chopra Former Director IIT-Kharagpur on Ethics in Scientific Research

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Colloquium on OAP: Models & Technologies (fwd)
by I.R.N.Goudar 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Dear Professionals, KALA and SIS, Bangalore Chapter cordially invite for a Colloquium on (Presentation 30 minutes each + Discussion about 40 minutes) "Open Access Publishing: Models and Technologies" SPEAKERS: 1. Ms. Judith Turner, Editor, J. Electronic Publishing Topic: "S.R. Ranganathan, Andrew Carnegie, and Open Access" 2. Dr. Eric F. Van de Velde, Director, Library Information Technology, CALTECH, California, USA Topic: "Open Access Publishing: The view from the trenches at Caltech" Preciding and Moderosation of Discussion: Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director, Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson, Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Date & Time: Saturday, 17th Sept 2005 at 4.30 pm. Venue: Conference Room, British Library 26, Prestige Takt, Kasturba Cross Road, Bangalore-1 Tel: 080-22489220 E-mail: naik.sadashiv(a)in.britishcouncil.org Abstracts: "S.R. Ranganathan, Andrew Carnegie, and Open Access" Open Access Initiatives represent a new business model for publishing that is challenging commercial scholarly publishing. The question is, must it be an either-or situation, or can the two models thrive side by side -- and indeed support one another? "Open Access Publishing: The view from the trenches at Caltech" Caltech embarked on its Open Archives initiative, called Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA), in January 2000. Since then, we have collected an institutional repository of over 4100 items. Just about half of these are Caltech doctoral theses. Other documents include: books, technical reports, preprints, reprints, oral histories, and popularizing scientific articles. High usage statistics quickly propelled CODA from a pilot study into a major strategic initiative of the Caltech library. In this talk, I will cover some of the challenges of this project, as well as our plans for the future. I.R.N. Goudar Dr. I.K.R. Rao President KALA & President, SIS Bangalore Chapter Secretary SIS Bangalore Chapter Prof. T.D. Kemparaj Secretary and Other Office Bearers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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Google Keyword Search Tool
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Many of us may not know that: Google Keyword Tool at https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordSandbox is a very useful search tool for finding synoymous words and phrases. Though the tool is meant for selecting keywords to be assigned for matching Google Ads against search terms used by searchers, it is still useful to us, librarians. We can recollect and reconsider keywords that may be better for searching. For instance "literature search" returns: medical literature search literature search a literature search literature search on do a literature search literature search engine literature search engines search literature Isn' this great? Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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Positions Vacant for Library Professionals
by vijaya kumara 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

MVJ College of Engineering Library, Bangalore requires experienced library professionals with the knowledge of computer applications for the positions of Librarian, Assistant Librarian, and Library Assistant. The candidates who applied for our previous advertisement need to apply once again. Interested candidate may apply with in 10 days to Chief Administration Officer, MVJ College of Engineering, Near ITPL, Channasandra, Bangalore-560 067 Regards Vijayakumar M \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Vijayakumar M, HOD - Library, MVJ College of Engineering (an ISO Certified Institution) Channasandra, Bangalore - 560 067, Karnataka, India Tel:+91-80-28452324 Ext. 234 library(a)mvjeducation.com or coolvg(a)gmail.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. MVJ College of Engineering Library, Bangalore requires experienced library professionals with the knowledge of computer applications for the positions of Librarian, Assistant Librarian, and Library Assistant. The candidates who applied for our previous advertisement need to apply once again. Interested candidate may apply with in 10 days to Chief Administration Officer, MVJ College of Engineering, Near ITPL, Channasandra, Bangalore-560 067 Regards Vijayakumar M \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Vijayakumar M, HOD - Library, MVJ College of Engineering (an ISO Certified Institution) Channasandra, Bangalore - 560 067, Karnataka, India Tel:+91-80-28452324 Ext. 234 mailto:library@mvjeducation.com library(a)mvjeducation.com or mailto:coolvg@gmail.com coolvg(a)gmail.com Yahoo! for Good http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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Teleos Recognizes India's Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Teleos Recognizes India's Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2005--Indian companies dedicated to growth through innovation and knowledge management delivered a year-on-year 38% average Total Shareholder Return, according to Teleos' new "2005 Indian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) Report." The Winners of the inaugural Indian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study, conducted by Teleos in association with The KNOW Network, are (in alphabetical order): -- Eureka Forbes (Consumer products) -- i-flex solutions (IT solutions) -- Infosys Technologies (IT solutions) -- Satyam Computer Services (IT solutions) -- Tata Consultancy Services (IT solutions) -- Tata Steel (Metal fabrication) -- Wipro Technologies (IT solutions) Infosys Technologies has been recognized as the overall 2005 Indian MAKE Winner. A blue ribbon panel of senior Indian business executives and leading Indian-based knowledge management / intellectual capital experts have selected this year's Indian MAKE Winners. The expert panel rated organizations founded and headquartered in India against the MAKE framework of eight key knowledge performance dimensions which are the visible drivers of competitive advantage. The 2005 Indian MAKE Winners have been recognized as leaders in: -- creating a enterprise knowledge-driven culture -- developing knowledge workers through senior management leadership -- delivering knowledge-based products/services/solutions -- maximizing enterprise intellectual capital -- creating an environment for collaborative knowledge sharing -- creating a learning organization -- delivering value based on customer knowledge -- transforming enterprise knowledge into shareholder value According to Rory Chase, managing director of Teleos, "India is emerging as a dynamic center of innovative knowledge management. This inaugural Indian MAKE study serves as a benchmark to recognize those Indian companies which are leaders in effectively transforming enterprise knowledge into wealth-creating ideas, products and solutions. These companies are building portfolios of intellectual capital and intangible assets which will enable them to out-perform their competitors -- both within India and abroad -- in years to come." http://tinyurl.com/8qogs Regards Sreeharsha

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