What a delight to meet a former BBC employee who has implemented social software (forums, blogs, wikis) in a large organization. Euan Semple is the former Head of Knowledge Management for the British Broadcasting Corporation and wirter of The Obvious Blog.
TFPL‘s European Business Information Conference , organized by Nigel Oxbrow, is being held this week in Milan. An interesting conference model with morning speakers and table discussions and afternoon workshops, some with presentations followed by discussion and some facilitated discussion. Some of the workshop topics were predetermined and others were determined by attendees when they [...]
It came to my attention, Walt Crawford’s blog post, that most people do not realize just how difficult it is to find venues and dates for large conferences. Information Today’s Computers in Libraries 2006 just concluded in Washington DC with a record attendance of 2,662. As you can see from ITI’s blog, which links to [...]
Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project, keynoted the third day of CIL 2006. He discussed life online today and how the Internet enhances our daily work and play, and how the millenials, those born between 1982 and 2000, are unique. They are “digital natives in a world of digital immigrants”. They are [...]
The 21st CIL opened today at the DC Hilton with a record crowd of 2300+ in attendance. In adddition, there are a record number of bloggers blogging this event. You can find them linked to Information Today’s blog.cil2006
Today, Steve Denning, author of The Leaders Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art & Discipline of Business Narrative, spoke to the Education Institute. He talked about how springboard stories can share complex ideas and spark action. He also discussed other types of stories for: communicating who you are or who your oganization is (communicating your [...]
Well, thanks to Meredith Farkas who created the Unoffical CIL 2006 wiki, I have gone nuts with wikis. Not only have I contributed to the fast growing CIL wiki, but I have created two more — one is an experiment to see if the wiki software can assist me and the conference organizing group to [...]
Speaking of mashups, the theme of the Internet Librarian 2006 conference, Oct 23-25, Monterey CA, here’a a great application — What’s Up? Brought to my attention by Mark Federman’s post. Neat moving speech bubble which gives headlines from around the world from time zone to time zone. Cool.