Adopting an informational perspective towards knowledge work, this book investigates how enterprise portals can promote knowledge creation, distribution, and use. Moving beyond the design and delivery of portals as mere information retrieval tools, an enterprise portal is viewed as a shared information work space that can facilitate communication and collaboration among organizational workers, as well as support the browsing, searching, and retrieval of information content. Adopting an information vantage point, the book uniquely explores the human issues surrounding enterprise portal adoption and use, as well as the utilization of intelligent agents to ameliorate the use of portals for knowledge-based tasks. The result is a novel, rich and comprehensive discussion on the factors affecting the design and utilization of enterprise portals for knowledge work, suitable for both graduate-level students and organizational workers alike.

Far beyond simple data archives and streamlined access, enterprise knowledge portals represent the future of corporate information management. Seamlessly interweaving three essential principles -- people, content, and technology -- an effective portal is the ultimate roadmap to every conceivable permutation of the components in a business's landscape. This prescient, authoritative book is a vital reference for anyone concerned with harvesting, creating, distributing, or analyzing company information. HR executives and IT professionals will learn not only how to create the atlas to their company's universe but also how to define and assign the roles and responsibilities that will ensure long-term efficacy and relevance. Companies will have the ability to: * Build technology around knowledge requirements, not the other way around * Customize desktop access around individual requirements and workstyles * Make better decisions as a result of quick access to crucial information * Maximize speed, efficiency, accuracy, and flexibility of knowledge transfer.

In recent decades, digital technologies have permeated daily routines, whether at school, at work, or during personal engagements. Stakeholders in education are promoting innovative pedagogical practices, the business sector is utilizing updated processes. Even the public is improving their lifestyles by utilizing innovative technology. In a knowledge construction setting, technology becomes a tool to assist the user to access information, communicate information, and collaborate with others towards human development and knowledge management. In this context, ubiquitous computing has emerged to support humans in their daily life activities in a personal, unattended, and remote manner. Ubiquitous Technologies for Human Development and Knowledge Management serves as an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the widespread incorporation of technological innovations around the globe. It examines how the application of ubiquitous computing technologies affects various aspects of human lives, specifically in human development and knowledge management. The chapters demonstrate how these ubiquitous technologies, networks, and associated systems have proliferated and have woven themselves into the very framework of everyday life. It covers categorized investigations ranging from e-governance, knowledge management, ICTs, public services, innovation, and ethics. This book is essential for ICT specialists, technologists, teachers, instructional designers, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the latest technologies and how they are impacting human development and knowledge management across different disciplines.

Knowledge Management has evolved into one of the most important streams of management research, affecting organizations of all types at many different levels. The Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, Second Edition provides a compendium of terms, definitions and explanations of concepts, processes and acronyms addressing the challenges of knowledge management. This two-volume collection covers all aspects of this critical discipline, which range from knowledge identification and representation, to the impact of Knowledge Management Systems on organizational culture, to the significant integration and cost issues being faced by Human Resources, MIS/IT, and production departments.

First allow me to 'thank you' for having an interest in my multi-dimensional research and photography. It 'has' been and 'is' a privilege to share my world, my thoughts and knowledge with you. In reading 'Portals- Gateways to the Multi-Dimensional Worlds', you will realize that the greatest secret of all is in the fact that 'Everything is connected'; from the physical to the metaphysical, Life and Death, the Sub-Conscious and Conscious, Portals, Vortices, Dimensional and Time Travel, Gateways to Heaven and Portals to Hell. This book will clarify how to 'tap' into portals and 'travel' into Alternate Realities, Parallel Universes and multiple Time Lines. 'Portals- Gateways to the Multi-Dimensional Worlds', could be seen as a 'Metaphysical Self-Help' book, because it will help you tap into your extrasensory abilities that are just waiting to be awakened! For the last several decades, it has been my desire to bring people together who are engaged in the process of learning the Truth behind the Invisible Realms. It has been my goal to inspire people to open their minds to all the possibilities in life; to apply their metaphysical skills for the enhancement of their lives as well as others. 'Portals- Gateways to the Multi-Dimensional Worlds' will show you how to understand multidimensional realities and how to communicate with the entities that live within these dimensions or the invisible ones that walk among us in our physical 3rd dimensional world. In reading my book, 'Portals- Gateways to the Multi-Dimensional Worlds' and my series 'Believe in the Magic', I assure you, that you will not be disappointed. Quite the opposite; this book and series offer to the reader a unique understanding of 'All that Is!'Spread throughout its pages, are photos I have taken through the years of the 'invisible worlds', filled with multiple selves, faeries, trolls, UFOs, angels and more. This book promises you not only 'understanding' but 'photographic proof' that Multi-dimensional realities do exist! When you understand the workings of these multi-dimensional levels, you will then appreciate not only the wonders of the multi-universe, but the 'magic that lie within'... 'Portals- Gateways to the Multi-Dimensional Worlds' will teach you to not only communicate with the multi-dimensional worlds, but to photograph these worlds, the entities that live within and the strange phenomena interacting with us. In this book and throughout the 'Believe in the Magic series', I will teach you how the mind interprets your reality and how you can use this information to create the reality or realities you desire. Throughout this series, I will continue to inform you about vortices, portals, time slips, the Oz Factor or Dead Zones, alternative realities, frequencies and vibrations. It is my purpose to help you, once again, believe in your own multi-dimensional capabilities and the magic that lies within! Mary Sutherland