The digital age presents a host of information issues for the business professional: Information management, information design, business management and research in various issues.

And a new blog at the University of Oregon has the latest in those areas.

The Applied Information Management (AIM) Program has developed a new blog, The Information Umbrella.

Written by Kelly Brown, AIM academic director and adjunct faculty member, the blog focuses on current issues surrounding professionals in information management, information design, business management, and research in various industries.

Brown is an IT professional and academic director of the UO Applied Information Management Master’s Degree Program. He writes about IT topics “that keep him up at night,” he said.

A recent blog topic was entitled, The Future of Online Education. “Online education has crept into every level of the academic system, from grade school to graduate school,” Brown wrote. “It is now even prevalent in the corporate world as a viable means to train the workforce in areas such as safety, security, and corporate policies.”

The entry covered history, tools and the current state of online education.

Another entry was titled, What May Be Expected of an Undergraduate after Graduation.

The post was written by Anna Grigoryeva, an undergraduate student working part-time with the AIM Program.

“As the economy and job market continue to be affected by changes in information technology, the growth of social media, and access to big data, we wondered how today’s undergraduates are managing and interacting with today’s information,” Brown wrote.

The AIM Program is a fully online, multi-disciplinary Master of Science degree focusing on information management, information design, business management and applied research. Individuals are able to study part-time while continuing to work full-time and can complete the program in just two-and-a-half to three years.

The AIM Program encourages and welcomes applicants from a variety of educational and professional backgrounds. In AIM courses, engineers, designers, accountants, trainers, managers, and software developers (to name a few) have a chance to work with one another, providing an exceptional opportunity for communication across professional boundaries.

- from the Applied Information Management Program