Interesting that these topics are coming up regularly. Recently Daniel J. Caron, Assistant Deputy Minister, Library & Archives Canada spoke at IFLA about “Moving Towards a New Information Specialist Profile“. He talked about the changing environment where technology means not only doing things better, but differently, and also changes user behaviour to which we need [...]
From KMWorld.com’s e-letter NewsLinks: Most IT managers are stumped when it comes to capturing the right IT metrics and then effectively conveying their relevance to management. Decision makers tend to focus on the one metric they understand: The cost of IT and how to reduce it. This new Forrester White Paper reveals the five essential [...]
Check out this interesting article on “how Web 2.0 technologies, agile project management and strong IT governance are enabling the CIA to share more information inside the enigmatic, controversial agency and collaborate more effectively with its 15 intelligence agency peers.” For example the CIO of the CIA (don’t you love the nice ring of all [...]
The end of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing (thanks again Google for your wonderful doodles) is signaling for me the fast approach of the fall, a busy conference time — a time for learning, sharing knowledge, celebrating accomplishments with colleagues, netowrking with new people, and gaining new insights. KMWorld & Intranets 2008, September 23-5, [...]
Some cools stuff in this article but my favorites are: Print Shop to Go, Printstik PS910 Forget about waiting at a Kinkos to print out that hard-copy report. Planon’s Printstik PS910 is a go-anywhere print shop. At 1.5 pounds and powered by a lithium ion battery, the PS910 easily fits into a notebook bag, yet [...]
Check out this great strategic planning guide on the Treasury Board of Canada’s website. It “provides practical advice and best practices for departments and agencies on developing Information Management (IM) or Information Technology (IT) strategic plans.” Nice approach. ELEMENTS OF A STRATEGIC PLAN Where Are We Now? Planning ContextMission and Service Offerings Internal / External [...]
Isn’t great to see so many young athletes have an opportunity to represent their countries in Beijing at the Summer Olympics? Belonging to an athletic family who lives to watch the games, it is an exciting time. As were the Ontario Summer Games this past weekend in Ottawa where my daughter coached an under 16 [...]
At the International Federation of Library Assocition 74th conference in Quebec City, the KM Section is presenting a session with the Information Technology and Library and Research Services for Parliaments on Social Computing Tools & Knowledge Sharing. David Gurteen ccompared old KM practices and KM 2.0 which uses today’s social tools. Slides available here. He [...]
At long last, here is Jane’s presentation to the Spring 2008 conference Ontario Library Service-North held for its incredible public library clients. We so enjoy working with the public libraries in northern Ontario; in this discussion Jane talked with them about “applying and learning web 2.0 tools in 15 minutes/day”, originated by Helene Blowers at [...]
Thank you Michael Stephens!! Once again you’ve “tamed the web” for me <wink>. Michael’s blog links to Brian Solis’ work on a “conversation prism” that “charts online conversations between the people that populate communities as well as the networks that connect the Social Web.” It’s very cool. Not only does it help us identify myriad [...]