Until the end of this month we have a trial to the Leadership Development streaming video collection from the vendor “SkillSoft” as enjoyed by the majority of the Fortune 1000 companies and many leading universities. Over 2,700 streaming videos, ranging from 2 to 90 minutes in length, featuring speakers such as Tom Peters, Stephen Covey, etc. from sources such as DeLoitte Consulting, CEO Exchange and Cornell’s Johnson School of Management.
Skillsoft delivers content via the Books 24×7 platform on which we have enjoyed e-books for over a decade. Log into their platform directly and see the navigation on the right hand side for links to videos. [Browse Topics/ View by / Leadership Development Topic]
Below I will include the browse menus of categories to give you an idea of the coverage. As with all trials, YOUR FEEDBACK will determine if we purchase this! So please send me any comments, including the course numbers for which you would see this being useful.
Best,
Tim
siftar@drexel.edu
Change Management
Adapting to Change
Leading Change
Managing Change
Communication
Delivering Presentations
Effective Personal Communication
Email Messaging
Listening
Globalization & Emerging Markets
Human Resources
Attracting Talent
Learning & Development
Preventing Sexual Harassment
Reducing Stress
Retaining Talent
Safety and Wellness
Valuing Diversity
Leadership
Behaving with Values
Building Teams
Coaching & Mentoring
Collaborating
Empowering Others
Leading Others
Managing Performance
Managing Virtually
Faculty Announcement Newsletter
Motivating Others
Personal Effectiveness
Behaving Ethically
Emotional & Business Intelligence
Managing Projects
Managing Time & Priorities
Navigating Corporate Culture
Self Motivation
Producer Picks
Programs with Subtitles
Recommended Meeting Starters
Advance Management Skills
Generate Customer/Client Insights
Improve Sales Performance
Improve Team Performance
Increase Revenue
Inspire and Energize
Overcome Adversity
Spark New Ways of Thinking
Work Smarter
Sales & Marketing
Managing Customers
Marketing
Selling
Strategy & Innovation
Creativity & Problem Solving
Leading Growth
Operational Management & Process
Strategy & Execution
Sustainability and Social Responsibility
Compliance
Corporate Social Responsibility
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
For those who don’t know, the Gartner Group is the gold standard IT industry analyst firm used by Fortune 500 companies and others to keep track of current opinions on information technology vendors, products and developments. They have great high level reports such as “hype cycles” and “magic quadrants” that summarize lots of information.
Unfortunately, our usage did not warrant its continuation. By chance, the Library became aware of the more hands-on IT analyst service called “Burton Group” used by our campus computing department. Students had access to individual Burton reports through the iSchool Librarian who acted as a gatekeeper.
Then Gartner purchased Burton and integrated all the content under the Gartner.com portal. So once again, Drexel gained access to the combined version of their content. Imagine my surprise when our campus computing department recently decided to drop their Burton subscription. So all Drexel access will cease at some point in November 2011. Until then, enjoy the content you find at Gartner.com. Feel free to email me if you are unable to retrieve full text.
Alternatives to Gartner include the following:
Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies – great short, basic background on technology and vendors
IGI InfoSci – wide array of academic books, journals, encyclopedias and case studies
Summon – our multi-disciplinary discovery layer that searches ALL Drexel’s online databases
See the Information Systems & Technology research guide for all our IT resources.
Please get in touch if you would like an introduction to any of these additional great resources!
best,
Tim Siftar
Trial extended through June 15th!
Hugely improved with intuitive “wizards” to guide queries, SimplyMap 2 makes business and demographic information accessible to non-experts through a mapping visualization interface. Included in this trial is temporary access to the amazingly deep Simmons LOCAL and Claritas PRIZM (Nielson) data sets with consumer and opinion data points such as religious and political views that you cannot otherwise find in Census data. This data is excellent for market research, justifying new product development, business location decisions as well as political and electoral strategy planning, with zip code, census tract and often times block group level data.
Aside from the updated interface, many new features have been enabled on the new version, such as full-text Boolean searching of metadata descriptions for all variables. Also included for GIS geeks is the new ability to export data as shape files.
The same new interface will go live on our main subscription in July. But this temporary access to the fancy datasets is not likely to return without strong advocates – so try it while you can!
(Want to preview the PRIZM psycho-graphic profiles by zipcode? Try them on the open web here.)
Thoughts & comments always welcome: siftar@drexel.edu
The latest online edition of this core reference work “The Encyclopedia of L&IS” has just been released.
Of special note are several contributions by Drexel iSchool faculty. Enjoy!
Graphic novels are like comics for grown-up’s or kids or anyone who prefers reading stories in an animated form instead of plain linear text. As part of an effort to build our collection here at Drexel, I am delighted to collaborate with Drexel iSchool alumna, author and long-time Library Journal columnist Martha Cornog on producing a special topic research guide on graphic novels.
Our modest effort includes reviewing a representative sample of individual books from a dozen or so categories across the vast and growing genre of graphic novels. We are borrowing liberally for these guides from Martha’s book “Graphic Novels: Beyond the Basics” and supplementing with weblinks to related resources. As long as my budget holds out, I plan to purchase all the reviewed items for the Library’s collection.
Starting at the top of our list of categories, the first is for parents and professionals who are facing reluctant readers. Future additions to the guide will include sections on African American, Manga, and historically-based graphic novels, among others. For the benefit of readers who would like additional references, we plan to include links to full reviews published for many of these books in Library Journal.
We hope you enjoy this online resource as well as all of the new titles we are adding to our Drexel Library collection!
Tim Siftar and Martha Cornog
