Groofer

Groofer is the Right Tool for Online Researchers

Ronnie — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:32:45 +0000

Information can be found on the Internet aplenty. However, organizing and archiving this information is not a simple task. And when you are doing online research routinely in your job, managing high informationvolumes quickly gets out of hand. The information management process needs to meet these goals - Capture as part of regular workflow. Information capture needs to easily [...]

Groofer Adds Social Search for Workgroups

Ronnie — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:59:02 +0000

Today, we are excited to add the capability of extending our workgroup collaboration capability to web search. What Groofer does is helps you collaborate with your workgroup to find and contextualize relevant search results faster by maintaining a history of ratings, comments and discussions.

How to Improve Work Group Productivity in Consuming Information Online

Ronnie — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:11:39 +0000

The Internet has information aplenty. However, it’s not always easy to find what you need. In fact, with the abundance of information online, it takes ever longer to find and discover relevant information like blogs, social streams or search results. And once you find it, it takes considerable time to read, assess and determine if it fits your [...]

The Collective Intelligence of Groups

Ronnie — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:05:15 +0000

The growing value of group intelligence. The last few months have seen some fascinating studies and discussions on the intelligence of groups and how it contributes to team creativity and problem solving. In January, Leslie Brokaw posted a blog on the MIT Sloan Management Review titled “Madness of Crowd or Wisdom of Groups“. The article points to some very interesting [...]

How do Professionals Get their Business News?

Ronnie — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:10:45 +0000

I came across an interesting poll on Linkedin today that poses this question. There are over 600 responses (and more are being added) – but the data already provides some statistical validity at this level. (Caveat: You will need a Linkedin login to access the detailed results and breakdown). To make matters simple I have [...]

New Survey Reveals Extent, Impact of Information Overload on Workers

Ronnie — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:36:05 +0000

Lexis Nexis published the results of their 2010 International Workplace Productivity Survey last month that reveals the extent and impact of information overload on workers’ productivity and morale around the world. The survey of 1,700 white collar workers in five countries – the United States, China, South Africa, United Kingdom and Australia – found professionals [...]

Facebook Groups: A Business Social Game Changer?

Ronnie — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:35:37 +0000

The recent announcement of Facebook Groups was met with a usual volley of user concerns. But of course that is becoming standard on every major (and sometimes even minor changes) that Facebook does. The Internet conversation has centered on the fact that any group member can add any friend to an ‘open’ group. So instead [...]

Move Over Feed Aggregation, Welcome to Content Filtering

Ronnie — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:24:30 +0000

We have been busy in the last month putting Groofer through its paces in a private beta setting. We received lots of great feedback many of which are being worked into the product as we speak in time for our early October launch. The overwhelming feedback was this kind of new innovation is needed to [...]

Method to the Madness – But is it Enough?

Ronnie — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:57:48 +0000

Like many other business professionals faced with the information overload – we adopted a few typical strategies that made sense: Select a few favorite news and blog sites to visit on a regular basis and set up alerts in readers and social streams to aggregate everything else. Join online groups in our areas of interest [...]

Too Much Information – Now What?

Ronnie — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:44:22 +0000

Simply put, we are inundated by new business-related information on the Web – each day there’s new content from news articles and blog posts to web sites to social media streams. You name it; we track it – information about our industry and our profession including new and existing trends, companies, practices, events, announcements, thought [...]