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Jane Dysart posted this in Blog Posts on March 11th, 2005 Check out the latest “Strategic Conversations with Leaders” Series
ReCreate or ReEnergize: Creating a Personal Strategic Plan to Find the Passion in Yourself and Your CareerInstructor: Wendy Beecham, Chair, TEC International & Executive Coach.
Thursday, March 17, 20053:00 4:00 p.m. Eastern timeTELECONFERENCE
It’s Monday morning and you’re heading off to work. Are you going with a bounce in your step positively anticipating the challenges of the day? Are you feeling that these are wonderful times when money, connections, rewards and living one’s dreams and plans have all come together? Or are you feeling like you’re going through the motions and you can’t remember why you took this job? Is there a lack of challenge and personal development? What’s happened to the time you used to spend with your friends and family? There are predictable cycles of change we all go through in our jobs and in our lives. In fact, the only constant in life is change. This session focuses on the Cycle of Renewal, created by Frederic and Pamela Hudson of the Hudson Institute. It describes the phases and shares practical steps about the essential life skills, feelings and goals to accomplish in each of the phases. At the end of the presentation, you will be able to identify which phase of the cycle you are currently residing in and will leave with practical tools and techniques for developing your own personal strategic plan to ReCreate or ReEnergize yourself and your career.
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Jane Dysart posted this in Blog Posts on March 1st, 2005 Christie Koontz, head of Geolib, clogger extraordinaire, and engaging speaker at Sirsi’s SuperConference, talked about marketing (yes marketing not publicity and promotion!) and demonstrated a great planning tool for mapping information around US libraries. And this week the tool is the featured application on the web site of GeoCortex, an internet mapping software compnay. Cool stuff and what every US public, school, and academic library needs to build their strategic and businss plans as well as to make their business case! We need this for Canada.
Jane Dysart posted this in Blog Posts on March 1st, 2005 Joshua Duhl of IDC talked about content integration and the holy grail of “single point access to multiple information sources.” He talked about preferred methods of integrating from multiple sources, like portals, and some of the processes and tools which can make that happen. His main emphasis was on dynamic, not permanent, integration of content. And I loved the term “crosswalks” which enable on taxonomy to map to another.
Chris Sherman, Associate Editor for Search Engine Watch talked about local searches from many different engines, especially Amazon’s new A9 which shows actually storefronts. His questions, “Where are the libraries?” Sherman talked about personalization and insight into your desktop with tools such as Findory and MSN’s Newsbot. He talked about the return of push where you can search, find and subscribe as well as the tools you can use such as Daypop, Technorati, Feedster, Bloglines, Blogory, as well as news readers like NewsGator, Feed Demon, SharpReader. He also talked about PubSub which monitors in real-time. He told a story about PubSub using their technology and sophisticated earthquake data to alert mobile devices about earthquakes. I’ll have to ask Stephen Cohen, who now works for PubSub, for more info on that!
Jane Dysart posted this in Blog Posts on March 1st, 2005 Lee Rainie, Pew Internet & American Life Project, opened with lots of great stats about the use of the Internet based on his organization’s research. Rainie is an energetic speaker with a passion for statics and the information he shares. “Being online is the norm, but not universal”, he says, with 66% of adults and 87% of teens in the US using the Internet. Broadband has had the fastest adoption curve than cell phones, video games, everything except DVD players! Women overtook men in 2000 as net users and today, every day, 6-7 million Americans buy online while 20 million window shop. “The Internet has moved from a novelty phase to a funcational one.” For the young today the Internet has faded into the background (or is ubiquitous as I said in print in InfoToday in the late 90′s), and they don’t think of it, just as we don’t think of electricity unless it disappears!
Rainie talked about the new Net activities like content creation, file-sharing, reputation systems; and he also talked about the digital divide and identificaiton and characteristics of these groups. Interesting to note that 10-15% of Net users still rely on 3rd parties for their connections, so libraries still have a niche to fill.
Rainie talked about impact: the Net builds social capital, especially through relationships and groups; people take the Net more seriously; broadband connections change user behaviour; epatients have created a new health care environment; ecitizens are creating a new civic environment; and seniors
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Jane Dysart posted this in Blog Posts on March 1st, 2005 Author, David Baldacci, was a truly engaging speaker with many messages. He talked of “badges of honor” rather than rejections, because you have to have finished something, sent it to a stranger before you can earn a badge of honor. And it’s not negative unless you let it be so and let it keep you from doing something you love. And he love’s writing. It comes across loud and clear when he speaks and also on his web site. Although his young daughter thought he wrote in books for a living and instructed him not to do so in libraries, he has graduated from being a lawyer and writing as a hobby to an international best-selling author, and terrific speaker! “Words are the greatest tools we will ever have to communicate with each other.” Ignorance & intolerance go hand in hand and are tied to social problems, he says, making literacy critical. He continued to say that the US was founded on words and that no illerate country can sustain a democracy. His best story was about how he morphed from being lawyer 587 into a best-selling author, although my mother, a retired teacher, was greatly impressed by news of his new young adult book about to be published which has tools to enhance vocabularly development. “The joy and power of reading, a quality immeasurable for generations.”
Jane Dysart posted this in Blog Posts on March 1st, 2005 Sirsi’s SuperConferece in Nashville this week opened with fun remarks from the Mayor of Nashville who said we’d probably find members of our group still wandering in the Opryland hotel next year when we came back — not far off, I’m sure. Having been to the hotel for the SLA conference last year, I thought I’d be OK but still got lost looking for Executive track in the Bayou room!
Pat Sommers, Sirsi’s CEO, talked about Sirsi’s strategic vision of improving the experience of library users and the productivity of libraries and the company’s plans for the next year. Quoting Alan Kay, computer technology pioneer, who said, “The best way fo predict the future is to invent it”, Sommers emphasized that the future is not aobut technology but user experience with technology enabling that experience. He talked about his organizaiton’s plans for the next year.
Jane Dysart posted this in Blog Posts on March 1st, 2005 Exciting news!Stephen Abram, current president of the Canadian Library Association, and VP, Innovation for Sirsi is announcing a new blog this morning. Watch for it to go live with lots of links to presentations that Stephen has made around the world — many about new technology — as well as Stephen’s creative and bleeding edge thoughts and many links to cool reseearch and more. Can’t wait to see it!
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