Check out what our friends from the Netherlands are doing in Jamaica. Erik is a great guide, so enthusiastic and curious – watching him on YouTube is almost as good as seeing him in person! Join us at Internet Librarian 2008 in Monterey CA for another exciting Shanachie adventure.
And, on Jane’s 35th wedding anniversary, and our 15th working anniversary, a word about partnerships. Seems obvious, but too often individuals and organizations enter into partnerships without asking, discussing and documenting the answers to the following questions: 1.What’s the specific purpose of the partnership? Why is it being considered? 2. How will it benefit customers? [...]
It is hard for me to imagine that I have been married for 35 years today — yes I was only 3 years old when I was married (kidding!). AND, my business partner, Rebecca Jones, and I have been together for more than 15 years. I am blessed with two long-standing, and wonderful partners. My mother recently [...]
ITBusiness.ca profiles Googles’ failures in “Ten god-awful Google flops & fiascos.” It’s worth scanning, especially the section about Google Answers, which, despite the quality, flopped in the face of Yahoo’s free answers…..and the fact that Google expects employees to 20% of their time pursuing personal projects of interest —- since out of failures rise 1 [...]
Further to my post last week about the Google competition for K-12 students, here is the winner of the contest. Since we seem to have gone from long, cold winter where I live to a rainy, cool spring, I agree this is great! Thanks Google for encouraging students to share their artistic insights. For more info [...]
Sat in on this session at Streaming Meida East yesterday with a bunch of cool speakers in a session moderated by Kevin Nalts, Product Manager & Industry Blogger, WillvideoForFood.com. Paul Kontonis, CEO, For Your Imagination talked about making videos interesting, and getting people to talk about them so they keep coming back to view them. He gave [...]
This morning Enterprise Search Summit got underway with keynote Martin White, Intranet Focus, and I liked his quote even though he can’t remember where it came from. If you know, let me know! The fire of progress is lit by innovation, fuelled by information, and sustained by hope and hard work. Liked the way Brad [...]
Thanks so much Amy for pointing this out to me! Most people know I love the Google doodles they publish for vaious occasions as I often include them here (see Mother’s Day Google doodle below). But how about this from Google: Doodle 4 Google is a competition where we invite K-12 students to reinvent Google’s [...]
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Love Dave Snowden’s post today, Open Source is not the same as Freeware. Certainly in this day and age transparency is very important, just as Don Tappscott said in his 2003 book, The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business. With some of the intersting discussions that took place at Computers in Libraries [...]