Cultural heritage is increasingly being viewed as an economic asset for geographic areas who aim to capitalise in the surge in interest in local history and heritage tourism from members of the public. Digital technologies have developed that facilitate new forms of engagement with heritage and allow local areas to showcase their history, potentially broadening interest to a wider audience, thus acting as a driver for cultural and economic resilience. The research presented in this paper explores this through interdisciplinary research utilising laser scanning and visualisation in combination with social research in Elgin. 3D data capture technologies were used to develop and test 3D data visualisations and protocols through which the urban built heritage can be digitally recorded. The main focus of this paper surrounds the application and perceptions of these technologies. Findings suggest that the primary driver for cultural heritage developments was economic (with an emphasis on tourism) but further benefits and key factors of community engagement, social learning and cultural resilience were also reported. Stakeholder engagement and partnership working, in particular, were identified as critical factors of success. The findings from the community engagement events demonstrate that laser scanning and visualisation provide a novel and engaging mechanism for co-producing heritage assets. There is a high level of public interest in such technologies and users who engaged with these models reported that they gained new perspectives (including spatial and temporal perspectives) on the built heritage of the area.

This article investigates the concept of influence within a group of police work‐bloggers. During the period studied (2007–2013), three influential police bloggers, well‐known within the small and tightly knit UK police blogosphere, abruptly ended their blogging activity. Their cessation stimulated others to reconsider their own blogging and led to several bloggers ceasing to blog for fear of being outed and disciplined or because they had been warned by superiors. This can be seen as part of a wider phenomenon as increasing blog surveillance has resulted in a reduction of work‐related blogs. The study shows that work‐blogging cessation is influenced by the activities or perceived activities of bloggers' peers and that, while internal factors were influential in the creation of new work‐blogs, external factors—in particular, fear of consequences for their career—were the predominant influences on their cessation.

Knowledge Management Research &Practice (KMRP) provides an outlet for high quality, peer reviewed articles on all aspects of managing knowledge, organisational learning, intellectual capital and knowledge economics. This includes not just those focused on the organisational level, but all levels from that of the individual to that of the nation or profession. KMRP is an official journal of the OR Society

This paper presents the results of research, which aimed to evaluate the current position of the knowledge management (KM) capabilities of a multi‐national energy services company, and is based on work originally presented at IFKAD‐KCWS 2012, Matera, Italy, 13–15 June 2012. This was achieved through the development and application of three methodological ‘tools’ designed to facilitate the collation of relevant data upon which the KM strategy would be based. These were the following: a Knowledge Process Audit to develop an understanding of how employees viewed current knowledge‐based practices within the organisation, a Knowledge Inventory and Map to identify and list tacit and explicit knowledge assets within the organisation, and a Knowledge Needs Analysis to determine the types and forms of knowledge assets required or desired by members of staff to perform their roles more effectively.Although a number of strategic approaches to knowledge management have been posited, there has been a general lack of material describing the development and use of methodologies, which may be used as a basis for KM strategies. This research emphasises the need for and use of a rigorous approach to the collation and application of relevant data on which to develop a suitable strategy.Practical implications are provided in the form of key findings for the research, including the importance of internal tacit knowledge, consultation of external sources only after internal searches have failed, difficulty of new integration of employees and lack of knowledge sharing at a wider level. Methodological implications for knowledge auditing and mapping are also presented. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

This paper explores the application of information design principles to label design for fish packaging, identifying energy implications for the product. This stage of the project has consisted of: A review and distillation of the relevant literature on information and label design; environmental and labelling standards; and literature on consumer reaction to the design and information content of the label. Considering the design of a label requires the analysis and integration of a variety of factors while attempting to satisfy the demands of consumers and retailers.