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# Above the Fold

Above the Fold is a weekly electronic newsletter that seeks to bring attention to items of interest from beyond our normal reading sphere. This serial publication consists of a compendium of articles that relate to the work of the RLG Partnership and the information context in which we're all operating -- but readers might not see in the course of their regular awareness routines. Each citation includes a short annotation explaining why we think the article is of interest. And each note is attributed to the staff member whose thoughts on the issue and its relevance can be tapped. Reactions to Above the Fold periodically crop up in the RLG Programs blog, hangingtogether.org. Blog readers are welcome to join the conversation and share their thoughts. Above the Fold is prepared by OCLC Programs and Research in partnership with IBIS Communications. ## Issue Index
Date | Issue | Main Topics
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25 June 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 21 | Simon & Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com Erin McKean Launches Wordnik—the Revolutionary Online Dictionary Turning the Pages Information System Who Profits from For-Profit Journals? Tapping into the Innovation Information Ecosystem How Does Language Shape the Way We Think?
19 June 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 20 | Innovation Strategy: How to Make Mass Customization Work The Impending Demise of the University Lingering News Flash From the Future: What Will Journalism Look Like? Why Companies Fail — Part I Data.gov: Opening the Doors to Government Data Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians)
12 June 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 19 | How I Sold My Book by Giving It Away How LexisNexis is Winning on the Web Survival of the Fittest Tag: Folksonomies, Findability and the Evolution of the Information Organization Top 10 Information Architecture Mistakes Skills: Business Must Learn From the New Tribe Reshaping the Art Museum Successful Small Team Leadership: Manage the Group, Not the Individuals
29 May 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 18 | Significant New Bloomsbury Science Series to be Available Free Online Steal This Book (for $9.99) Should Libraries Have eBooks? I'm Not Sure They Should Jakob Nielsen Critiques Twitter A Web That Speaks Your Language Are Your 'Secret Questions' Too Easily Answered?
22 May 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 17 | The Wisdom of Community Ancient Manuscripts in a Digital Age Creative Elegance: The Power of Incomplete Ideas The Kindle's Assault on Academia Little Search Engines that Could
18 May 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 16 | Reinventing the Book in the Age of the Web Innovation: How Your Search Queries Can Predict the Future Facebook Is More Than a Fad – And Museums Need to Learn From It Kill Your RSS Reader Web Tool 'As Important As Google' Anthropology: The Art of Building a Successful Social Site
08 May 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 15 | Website Management: You Can't Automate Everything How to Fit Into Your Customers' Multi-Channel Lives Innovation Strategy: How to Ask Effective Questions U.N. Launches Library of World's Knowledge Do You Know Where Your Data Are? Rise of the Geeks
05 May 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 14 | From Pages to Pixels: The Evolution of Online Journals Five Quick Tips for Enterprise Adoption Notes on Conceptual Fiction Buying, Selling, Owning the Past Let Them Eat Tweets Longing for Great Lost Works
23 April 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 13 | The Next Wave of Open Innovation World Wide Web Consortium's Ivan Herman Talks About the Semantic Web Smart History [iTunes] 'Hyperlocal' Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers Finding Pages from Browser History 6 Reasons Why Twitter Is the Future of Search – Google Beware
16 April 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 12 | Social Network Tools (From AlertThingy to Zemanta) Cut-and-Paste Writing New Metasearch Engines Leaves Google, Yahoo Crawling What Drives People to Steal Precious Books Greatest Loss of 2009: Social Capital MIT Faculty Open Access to Their Scholarly Articles
03 April 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 11 | Where's the Bailout for Publishing? Three Forces Disrupting Management Innovation Adjacencies Is This Madness? How Losing by Just a Little Can Help a Team—or Company—Win Will NPR Save the News? Writing Math on the Web
26 March 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 10 | "Social Media Is Here to Stay . . . Now What?" The Buzz Starts Here: Finding the First Mouth for Word-of-Mouth Marketing Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die Companies' Secret Weapon: Underutilized Executives To Ramp Up Its Web Site, MoMA Loosens Up Why Ideals Are the New Business Models
11 March 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 9 | The Library Rebooted Purpose to Power The New Humble World Order Man Bites Blog: Hey, You Media Wimps! If You Want to Save Newspapers, Learn to Love Your iPhones, Then Go Join Facebook The Hidden Gift Your Gen Y Employees Are Offering You DEMO Trend: The Smarter Web
05 March 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 8 | Six Ways to Make Web 2.0 Work How to Keep Innovating Creative Disruption—Richard N. Foster's Innovation Recipe Leo Babauta on the Tao of Marketing Tim Brown: The Powerful Link Between Creativity and Play Introducing SpokenWord.org Exploring a 'Deep Web' that Google Can't Grasp
26 February 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 7 | The Economic Crisis Requires Returning to Your Core Five Keys to Overcoming Resistance: Sneaking Web 2.0 in the Back Door Decisions, Decisions Stories, Storytelling, Story-Selling in Business What People Want (and How to Predict It)
13 February 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 6 | Blue is the New Green: Blue Thinking, the Gen 2 Sustainability Strategy Laugh a Little, Innovate a Lot Knowledge Management The Interview Question You Should Always Ask Do You Value Your Social Capital? User-Generated Content Draws Fans
04 February 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 5 | Google & the Future of Books Web 2.0 Represents a Fundamental Rethinking of Business, and the Theory of the Firm Leading with Agility Playing Favorites Netflix Prize: Will the $1 Million be Won in 2009? Crowd-Sourcing the World
28 January 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 4 | People of the Screen The New Reality: Constant Disruption Corporate Re-Invention: A Cautionary Tale Innovation Strategy: What Business Are We In? The Art of Execution
22 January 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 3 | This Year's Top 10 Media & Publishing Ideas What Can the Book Business Learn From iTunes? An Interview with C.K. Prahalad The Brand You is Dead. Long Live The Brand You Build. Ask Questions: The Single Most Important Habit for Innovative Thinkers
14 January 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 2 | Creating a Transparent Culture Discontent Leads to Success Who the Hell Writes Wikipedia, Anyway? Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy How the Lowly Text Message May Save Languages that Could Otherwise Fade Comparing Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs in Any Niche
07 January 2009 | Vol. 2 no. 1 | The Fidelity Swap: Why Some Things Catch On and Others Don't Connect the Dots Rethink Your Strategy: An Urgent Memo to the CEO Lego CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp on Leading Through Survival and Growth The Future of Social Search (Or Why Google Should Buy Facebook) The Worldwide Jam Session
Volume 1: 3 September – 23 December 2008
23 December 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 17 | Grow as a Leader Now Crowdsourcing Innovation: Q&A with Dwayne Spradlin of InnoCentive Instore Web 3.0 Scouting Writer's Tool Box: 35 Best Tools for Writing Online The Internet of 2020: More Cellphones, Intolerance; Less DRM
17 December 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 16 | Better Than Free 10 Principles of the New Business Intelligence How to Win by Changing the Game For Innovators, There is Brainpower in Numbers Back Button to the Future
10 December 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 15 | The First-Time CEO's Recession Survival Guide You're Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy? Reality Returns to the Internet Finding and Grooming Breakthrough Innovators Socialtext and a Theory of Collaboration and Networks IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives
02 December 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 14 | Innovation for Hard Times Group Think Paying for the News: Five Seeds for the Future of Journalism Old World Lessons for the Next-Gen Web The Online Search Party: A Way to Share the Load
25 November 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 13 | Four Barriers to Collaboration Obama's Seven Lessons for Radical Innovators How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers? Who Killed Our Business? How Companies Are Using IT to Spot Innovative Ideas
18 November 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 12 | To Outmarket the Competition, Run with the Rhinos Jacking into the Brain—Is the Brain the Ultimate Computer Interface? Novels 'Better at Explaining World's Problems than Reports' How Digital Technology Has Changed the Brain Who Should Own Community in Your Organization? Oh, Grow Up
12 November 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 11 | India Inc.: A Lesson in Business Design The Possibilities of a 'Portable Eye' 50 Websites You'll Wonder How You Lived Without The Novel by Tweet Errors by Bloggers Kill Credibility & Traffic, Study Finds Beyond YouTube: New Ways to Find Video on the Web
04 November 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 10 | The Business of Breaking Boundaries Arm & Hammer: Daring to be Different Gen Y Tech Tools May Not Translate to the Real World Customized Sites, Yearbooks Connect Local Papers & Schools The State of Independent Local Online News, Part 1: Sites on the Rise; Business Models Remain Elusive 6 Ways Authors Can Succeed by Self-Publishing Books
29 October 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 9 | Layoffs and Creativity: Are You Expelling the Innovators? Unleashing the Genius in Your Workforce What Publishing Can Learn from Music Textbooks Built to Fit Student Budgets Design Is More Than Packaging
23 October 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 8 | In Defense of Piracy Disrupted by a Shoe Box "Tribes": Ten Questions for Seth Godin Making Search Social Analog's Twilight: Slowly, Digital Trumps Physical J-Schools Use Geo-tagging, Wikis, iPhones to Teach
14 October 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 7 | Try Throwing the Box Out and Thinking Outside the Door The Marketer's Challenge: How to Teach Customers New Behaviours Creativity and the Role of the Leader Ask.com Rearms with Semantics, Rich Media in Search War About Us Information on Websites Limited Window of Opportunity for a New News Biz Seven Blog News Trackers Compared
07 October 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 6 | Shaping Strategy in a World of Constant Disruption 'Founders at Work' Chronicles the American Idols of Startups Welcome to Web 3.0 The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies The Problem with T-Shirts Study: 93 Percent of Americans Want Companies to Have Presence on Social Media Sites
30 September 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 5 | Innovative Thinking How to Save a Billion Dollars User-Generated Science The Tell-All Campus Tour The Secret of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn
23 September 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 4 | Three Steps to Innovating in Struggling Industries A Breakaway Opportunity for "Inferior" Products 4 Captivating Companies and What They Share Best Buy Taps 'Prediction Market' U.S. Sees Six 'Disruptive Technologies' by 2025 Can Intelligent Literature Survive in the Digital Age? Ten Leading Platforms for Creating Online Communities
16 September 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 3 | How to Chrome Your Industry Up Front and Personal Businesses Can't Hide from 2.0: A Look at 2.0's Impact Across Industries On Stupidity, Part 2: Exactly How Should We Teach the 'Digital Natives'? New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper
9 September 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 2 | 'The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching' The Unique Advantage Study: DRM a Major Barrier to e-Textbook Adoption Don't Just Buy the Music, Fans Told—Now You Can Invest in Big Names of the Future Many Companies Now Receptive to Online Social Networking at Work
3 September 2008 | Vol. 1 no. 1 | Should You Invest in the Long Tail? 'Inventing the Movies': The Epic Battle Between Innovation and the Status Quo in Hollywood Diving Deep into Amazon Web Services How to Change the Way Kids Learn File-sharing Networks Return with a Legitimate Way to Share Music—And Make Money
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