Today Alane Wilson of OCLC spoke to the Education Institute and provided what she called an “amateur primer” on environmental scanning (ES)based on insights from It’s All Good blog that I mentioned in an earlier post on the topic of ES. Alane discussed how ES at OCLC started with strategic planning efforts as one elements [...]
The SLA 2006 conference program is coming alive and you can now start your own personal planner for the event being held in Baltimore, June 10-14. There’s also a detailed PDF file of programs from the Leadership and Management Division which has a theme for each day of conference sessions: People, Strategic Planning & Knowledge [...]
Don’t you love it when things come together? I was just talking with CIL conference speaker & organizer Darlene Fichter the other day about getting a wiki up for CIL to include travel and eating tips, information about DC, techniques for getting the most our of the conference, and also a place to connect with [...]
One of Information Today’s most popular speakers has a new role – Director, Online Resources, Ask Jeeves. The wonderful ResourceShelf will continue. Congratulations Gary! Can’t wait to hear you speak at the upcoming Computers in Libraries, DC, March 22-24.
The 10th annual KMWorld & Intranets Conference and Exhibition will be held on October 31 – November 2, 2006 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, in San Jose, California. Consider being a speaker or participant. The KMWorld & Intranets Conference and Exhibition offers a wide-ranging program especially focused to meet the needs of executives [...]
Aaron Schmidt, Reference Librarian, Thomas Ford Memorial Library talked to the Education Institute today about using social computing tools. Here are some of Aaron’s highlights and comments. Social software is all about people: connecting, collaborating & communicating. Since libraries are concerned with people as well as materials, these tools are important because withbut people libraries [...]
Friday at OLA was another fun day. (You know that right-brain stuff = play is important!) More of my favourite quotes of the day: Kathleen Imhoff — “Cultivating Creativity”“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers“Remember: only you can change your frame.”Kathleen had us [...]
Both Rebecca and I talked about planning at the Ontario Library Association’s Superconference 2006. Slides from our presentations are on the dysartjones.com web site by clicking on Presentations on the list to your left! Enjoy. Jane Dysart on Building Castles in Your Mind: Creative Planning for the Future Rebecca Jones on Accelerated Planning
Juanita Richardson’s quotes of the day: Kim McArthur:“Following on what Dan Pink told us about right-brain thinkers last night, consider this: there are 240 Master of Fine Arts in Writing programmes now in North America — 20 years ago, there were 3! Great news for publishers — and for libraries!” MJ D’Elia “Connections not categories”:“Ontology [...]
Wednesday night at OLA: A surprising number of us trekked over to the convention centre to hear Dan Pink on Wed at 8:00 PM — and it was well worth the effort! He told us that the world is shifting from being dominated by left-brain thinkers (the analytical, number crunching type) to more right-brain thinkers [...]