The 12th Internet Librarian will once again be in Monterey CA, October 20-22 with workshops on the preceding two days. This year’s theme is Beyond 2.0: User-Focused Tools & Practices. The call for speakers is online and we look forward to speaking proposals.
Preparations are underway for TBC 2008, September 25-6, San Jose. This year’s conference will be chaired by Rebecca Jones, Dysart & Jones Associates. We’re looking for speakers. So if you are a practitioner, taxonomy expert, and are interestedin participating, please send in a proposal.
Jill Hurst-Wahl’s Facebook update last evening about earthquakes in Nevada reminded me about Ask.com’s earthquake site. Last November when a quake rocked us at Internet Librarian in Monterey, Gary Price pointed me to site and it is so interesting. If you haven’t viwed their earthquake watch, check it out! I continues to amaze me how [...]
With all the excitement and growth of online videos, especially at YouTube, and the InfoTubey Awards at Computers in Libraries 2008 on Tuesday April 8th, it’s interested to see a webinar on video 2.0 from the folks at Streaming Media. With interesting speakers, online video experts, this event discusses what’s in store for the next [...]
Looking for speakers for KMWorld & Intranets 2008, San Jose, September 23-25. Conference theme: Driving Enterprise Innovation & Achievement: User-Focused Tools & Practices Proposals can be submitted online here.
‘Tis the season for conferences and conference planning. We’re looking forward to Information Today’s Computers in Libraries 2008, April 7-9 in DC and working on an interesting experiment which we’ll tell you more about in two weeks! We’ve been doing some volunteer conference planning for SLA‘s 99th annual conference in Seattle, June 15-18 and IFLA‘s 74th [...]
Coming up at the Education Institute, Tuesday February 19th from 3-4 EST, Stephen Abram talks about technologies for promoting your library. “Jane Dysart, Dysart & Jones Associates, interviews globe-traveling Stephen Abram about the cool new technology tools he has experienced, heard about, observed as well as interesting research about new technologies, specifically those that can [...]
My workday starts with “coffee & quotes” — a mix of strong coffee with a feed of positive quotes and Harvard Business Review’s “Management Tip of the Day”. Too many people are hesitant to make difficult decisions that are strategically important and yet unpopular. Thanks to Colin Powell for this great quote:Being responsible sometimes means [...]
Yep, it IS all the in money. We librarians know that, but relating to our budgets in the same way that our funders relate to budgets continues to be a struggle for many of us. So I was delighted to talk with John Latham and learn that he’s bringing his 2 day Financial Management for [...]