What a blast the new Computers in Libaries 2007 Infotubey Awards were. You can view the awards ceremony powerpoint with links to the winning library productions. And now you can see the event captured by David Lee King in a great YouTube video. You can feel how the audience enjoyed the event through their laughter [...]
People have been telling me how useful they found 2 concepts I discussed at CIL recently. Credit for these concepts needs to go where credit is due. The Star Model is from Jay Galbraith’s brilliant work on Designing Organizations (I’m including the link to Amazon). His books and articles on how to structure org charts [...]
Rebecca and I have been playing around a bunch with Facebook and have quite a few friends and colleagues that we connect with there. Definitely an interesting space. I’m looking forward to Aaron Schmidt’s presentation next week, Tuesday, May 1st, 3-4pm ET (12-1am PT). It’s part of the Education Institute’s Tech Tuesdays: Talking with Techies [...]
Want to Beta test a new web platform for self-exploration and discovery “that helps you plan, play and progress in every area of life”? Check out a new start-up, Inpowr, that was included in Launch Pad Participant at the Web 2.0 Expo at Moscone in San Francisco last week. A colleague from Montreal, Michel Chioini [...]
The morning keynote at CIL 2007 by John Van Oudenaren, Senior Advisor, World Digital Library (WDL) Initiative, Library of Congress, ended with a great video of what we might expect down the road. He talked about the initiation of the initiative in 2005, the $3 million support from Google to create a plan for the [...]
Check out the great sketch of Rebecca on Organization 2.0! What a partner! Love the finger. Wonderful work, Derik Badman. He is a librarian who blogs mostly about comics and literary constraint, but he also does a weekly webcomic called “Maroon”.
View Lee’s presentation here.
Fabulous to see the exitement of Michelle MacLean, first time CIL speaker and librarian from Australia here in DC. Great to meet here and see her enthusiam as she meets many of the people she has only known online. She blogged about Ken Roberts, CEO, Hamilton Public Library and his talk about Building Communities, Connections [...]
Rebecca Jones, Partner, Dysart & Jones Associates speaks at CIL on Organization 2.0 and Accelerated Planning. Here is a blog post about the 2.0 talk, some futher thoughts about youth and their bosses sparked by Rebecca’s talk. And more coverage of the Org 2.0 talk from Chris Zammarelli. Meanwhile, Connie Crosby blogged about the Rebecca’s [...]
Librarians have long laughed about the fact that we are “hunters”; we truly enjoy searching — we thrill at the ‘hunt’ for answers. We’re curious to see where the hunt leads us. Library 2.0 means we need to use our curiousity in new ways — in playing games just to see what they’re like; in [...]