Although Computers in Libraries 2009 anticipated going back to the Hilton Washington in March 2009, the hotel is now scheduled for renovation during that time. So save the dates, March 30-April 1 2009, for another exciting conference at the Crystal City Hyatt, a short shuttle ride from Regan National Airport. The call for speakers should be up [...]
From ITWorld Canada: “Often, even great new technology needs a partner to really change the world. Here are 10 marriages of technologies that have shaken the digital world over the last 25 years.” 10. DVD’s + Entertainment on Demand: ” The whatever/wherever/whenever model of media consumption is turning both Hollywood and the consumer electronics industry [...]
Kathleen Delong, Associate Director, University of Alberta Libraries spoke to the Education Institute about developing leaders, an important .. today. She talked about the distinctive differencs of leadership (leaders producing change, adatption) and management which involves making things work and often are talked about in terms of order, consistency, and stability. Kathleen referred to the book, Leadership Theory [...]
Alex Bennet, former (and first) Chief Knowledge Officer of the U. S. Department of the Navy, just sent me a copy of the book she, her husband and others just published — Knowledge Mobilization in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Moving from Research to Action. From the prologue: “The leadership shown by the government of [...]
This article on IT skills just crossed my desk and the following quote refers to technology pros but I think it could be true for information and knowledge pros too! “Technology pros looking to find new work or secure their current jobs should get schooled on wireless, Web 2.0, and virtualization while also boning up [...]
Google’s Earth Day scenario with the little turtle in front reminded me of a cool book that Rebecca and I used years ago in a creativity session with clients, Wheel of Wisdom: A Turtle & Hare Journey to Your Dream by Canadian author, Angelika Clubb. The book is “for anyone who has ever had a [...]
Darrell Gunter, EVP/Chief Marketing Officer, Collexis Holdings Inc. referred to an interesting study, Semantic Wave Report 2008: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0, and you can order the executive summary for free. Darrell’s discussion of the knowledge plane where you extract knowledge and concpets, “searching to knowing” was very interesting. He also talked about exploring rather than [...]
Interesting interactive site to visit – Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Just heard from one of the creators, Chris Willis, VP Social Media, Footenote.com, who worked with a team to take pictures of the wall (6500) and then opened the site where people can share memories, memorabilia (including super 8 film), etc. You can search the wall, browse [...]
At Information Today’s Buying & Selling eContent 2008 event, Y.S. Chi, Vice-Chair, Elsevier gave a great analogy about the different levels of content available to users. He compared content to baseball. You can watch a ball game from the bleachers, from box seats, from a private suite with pop-up screens and access to stats, video clips, etc., or [...]
Keen, who came out of O’Reilly’s 2004 Foo Camp as a Web 2.0 skeptic, was interviewed by Information Today VP of Content, Dick Kaser at the Buying & Selling eContent event. Some interesting comments, quotes: We have to get beyond the cult of the innocent/child; how can they be wiser than expert? Best book on [...]