The program for Internet Librarian 2005, produced by Information Today is now available in PDF form, HTML to follow shortly. Workshops available on Saturday afternoon and Sunday, Oct 22-23. Note the earlier dates this year and plan to join us in Monterey.
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Just received a copy of Alex Bennet’s PhD dissertation in Human & Organizational Systems. Alex was Deputy Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Integration with the role of Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) for the United States Department of the Navy. She and her husband David now head the Mountain Quest Institute. For her disseration, Alex interviewed 34 thought leaders in the field of knowledge management and asked them, “What aspects of knowledge management contribute to the passion expressed by KM thought leaders?” I can’t wait to read more about colleagues and Information Today speakers at KMWorld including: David Snowden, Director, Cynefin Centre [who is speaking at CLA in Calgary in June and doing a workshop for the Education Institute]Carla O’Dell, President, APQCTom Davenport, Author, Speaker, ConsultantVerna Allee, Author, Speaker, ConsultantRoss Dawson, Author, Speaker, ConsultantMelissie Rumizen, SAIC, formerly with Buckman Labs & the US ArmyRob Cross, Author, Speaker, ConsultantJudi Sandrock, Manager, KM, Kumba Resources Hubert Saint-Onge, Author, Speaker, Consultant, SAINTONGE AllianceSteve Denning, Author, Speaker, Consultant Interesting post from Liz Lawley about the Social Computing Symposium in Seattle where a teen panel said, “Huh?” when asked about listening to podcasts. I also found interesting her point that so “many people still don’t see blogs as anything more than a fringe phenomenon.” And the comments from her students’ papers regarding blogs. Lots of things are happening in this space these days. Networking and working collaboratively have always been important in taking action and getting things done. Check out Donna Scheeder, Director, Law Library of Congress on this topic, Networking & Influencing Action, in the Eductation Institute’s teleconference, Thursday May 12th from 3-4 EST. And keep in eye out for the program of a new Information Today conference, C2: Connect & Collaborate!, September 27/8 in New York City. The program should be online soon and features great speakers like* Liz Lawley, Director, Rochester Institute of Technology Lab for Social Computing, & Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Corporation who has her own blog and participates in the Many 2 Many group weblog on social software.* Dave Pollard, Consultant, Meeting of Minds; Former Chief Knowledge Officer, Ernst & Young; Author, How to Save the World Weblog For years I’ve talked about focusing on the important not urgent. Reminiscent of planning and using your time wisely. Hard to do. Dave Pollard provides some great guidelines and useful tools in making sure that you get to both. He says, “Part of the challenge of reducing the number of Urgent tasks so there is more time for the Important ones is learning to say no. It’s one of the hardest lessons to learn.” Ain’t that the truth!! I said the same thing in a soon to be published CLA article entitled, Why Libraries Fail & Tips for Staying Alive”. Dave starts his article with a quiz about “If you had more free time you would spend it doing the following….” and is meant to “encourage you to start something, to be generous to yourself.” Love it! Check out this article:Longhorn won’t lock horns with GoogleBy: Scarlet PruittIDG News Service (London Bureau) (02 May 2005) Microsoft Corp. may have a keen interest in search, but its next-generation Windows operating system looks to be more of a threat to super-organized executive assistants than to Google Inc. Although the software maker has been steadily investing in search, its upcoming operating system, code-named Longhorn, is taking a new tack when it comes to helping users locate desktop files. In Longhorn, Microsoft is “moving away from search” and concentrating on how people organize and find documents, said Brad Goldberg, general manager of Windows Client Business Group. “We’re hoping our users never say they can’t find a file again,” Goldberg said during an interview in London. |
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