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    Posted on January 31st, 2007

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    Enterprise 2.0

    A topic of interest, especially since I’m involved with webcom Toronto — Building Smarter Organizations, Apr 10-12. So this new blog, Fastforward, is very interesting with such posts as:* Sense of ownership will drive Enterprise 2.0 adoption, Dana Gardner* Harvard Business School case study on Wikipedia, Hylton Jolliffe* Tips for gaining adoption of Enterprise 2.0 [...]

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    Posted on January 31st, 2007

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    Database Research

    Great article about SLA member Amy Affelt, Director, Database Research and Senior Analyst, and the online library at Lexecon. Great quotes from her management and clients. Amy lives by the ” the 15-minute rule” — research analysts are told to limit their Internet searching to 15 minutes per query. If they spend 15 minutes searching [...]

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    Posted on January 30th, 2007

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    Successful Ideas

    Just heard Chip Heath, Author of Made to Stick: The Six Hooks of Successful Ideas speak at SLA‘s Leadership Summit. Good speaker who maintains that sticky ideas have things in common. They are:* simple* unexpected* concrete* credible* emotional* storiesWhich, of course, spells SUCCESS. Chip also talked about the “curse of knowledge”, or knowing more than [...]

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    Posted on January 23rd, 2007

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    InfoTubey Awards for Libraries on YouTube

    At Internet Librarian in Oct 2006 there was much discussion about libraries using YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and other venues to communicate with clients and raise awareness of services. In viewing the inventive ways libraries are using these spaces Information Today decided to award the most creative libraries with (wait for it—-) InfoTubeys! The first InfoTubeys [...]