Information Today has redesigned its Taxonomy Boot Camp site, and networked with LinkedIn. This boutique conference holds its own in this economy as it brings together those working on taxonomies, metadata, repositories and any way to harness and organize information. They come from libraries, corporate environments, government departments and professional services to gather in Washington, DC [...]
I am very lucky to work with really talented people and to have a great channel for interviewing these wonderful practitioners and speakers. The Education Institutes provides a forum for a series of one hour conversations which you can listen to from your desk or just about anywhere! Here’s the great fall line-up and I know they will present many insights, ideas and strategies that you can use in your envinroment.
University of Florida has followed University of California at Berkeley in offering a course using a web game to teach problem-solving and strategizing. But whereas Berkeley’s course was a pass/fail-not-part-of-student-grades course, this course is a 2-credit honors course. YES! “21st Century Skills in Starcraft” is an eight-week class that “does not teach about Starcraft,” but combines weekly [...]
Harvard Libraries’ new Library Lab “is inviting students, faculty, and staff to collaborate with the Harvard Libraries and serve as co-creators of the information society of the future.” “The University-wide Library Lab is designed to leverage the entrepreneurial aspirations of Harvard students, faculty, and staff, who can propose projects in all areas of library activity.” [...]
Visualization works. The Infographic of the Day shows the 288.945 most popular sites on the web (don’t ask me why they chose that number). Nmap created this (it’s all explained on their site) and what’s really cool is that it’s interactive — so “click” & keep exploring. Hm….imagine…..the library’s web “space” (not site – but [...]
Next to Harvard Business Review and Stephen’s Lighthouse, ReadWriteWeb is “must scan” for me each morning. I scan for anything about organization’s planning, strategies and “people-stuff” that make me think about their implications or applications for libraries. As libraries focus on developing more and more mobile applications, they need to consider their strategies for [...]
A stunningly beautiful photo essay by Steve McCurry of people reading in places, spaces and with faces that stir our senses. Steve’s website profiles his photography — fabulous. I’ve taken to viewing photography sites and images as part of my early morning scan to gain new perspectives. And this is just one of them.
A few months ago I wrote about the “buy-with” concept from Sam Harrison’s “IdeaSelling: Successfully Pitch Your Creative Ideas to Bosses, Clients and Other Decision Makers”. Harrison contends, and we agree, that it is much more success-oriented to gain decision-makers’ agreement and approval when you build their understanding throughout a project than to wait until [...]
Jane has this fantastic ability to connect ideas from disparate areas into new ideas. I didn’t know there was a name for this ability until just now when I read BNET‘s posting about Dave Stewart’s new book. Jane – you are a polymath – meaning that you are knowledgeable about different things, and curious able [...]
