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The difference seems simple to me. Information is a 300 page manual with
the answer in it somewhere, but you don't know where because there's no TOC
and no index. Knowledge is a 300 topic online Help system with a TOC,
indexing, related topics buttons, and hyperlinks.
Feeling very smug about my metaphor, and waiting to be shot down
unmercifully,
Hope Cascio
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cc: (bcc: Hope D. Cascio)
From: wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM
Date: 04/22/98 01:05 PM
Subject: Re: STC Conference Panelist needed
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At 10:18 PM 4/21/98 EDT, Ross Squire wrote:
>I am moderating a panel at the upcoming STC confeence in Anaheim.
>The discussion will focus on the changes in the roles and responsibilities
>that has occured as our focus has moved from being information workers to
>knowledge workers. We will be discussing the changing roles, the
technologies
>that are influencing our profession, and our forecast for the future of
our
>profession.
>
I must need that panel discussion because "information workers"/"knowledge
workers" strikes me as a distinction without a difference.
--Wayne
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