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Jane Dysart posted this in Uncategorized on March 12th, 2009 Ever since Bill Drew pointed me on Facebook (FB) to this article, The Underwear Theory of Social Networking, it has been bothering me. It features a guy who does not want business colleagues as friends on FB. He’s dropping them. He feels LinkedIn is a better place for his business communications. Andrew Conry-Murray says on an InformationWeek site:“Here’s the mental picture I’ve created for the Big 3 social networking platforms I use.
LinkedIn is a suit and tie. It’s a conference room for business meetings, and people tend to be on their best behavior.
Twitter is a sports coat and jeans. It’s the hotel bar at a security conference or trade show. Technically I’m still at work, but there’s alcohol. The industry chatter, shop talk, and self-promotion gets salted with gossip, mild flirting, and swear words. You might even see a fight.
Facebook is boxer shorts and a T-shirt with burrito stains. It’s the couch where you sprawl out to watch “Family Guy,” eat Phish Food straight from the carton, and leave your socks laying around.”
And, now I’ve just read about employees being fired for their comments on FB. We know that people have always had less than flattering things to say, and do say it in many ways, what’s different about this media? Anyway, I like what C. G. Lynch had to say on CIO’s Web 2.0 Advisor site,
“Transparency (with good, bad and ugly information) ultimately betters your organization and keeps it honest. Social technologies enable that
Continue reading Transparency, FB & Social Networking
Rebecca Jones posted this in Learning on March 11th, 2009 Continuing with my “I love Harvard Business Review” theme, I’ve just listened to 2 great podcasts from www.Harvardbusiness.org at http://blogs.bnet.com/intercom/?cat=27. And both tie into the Think Tank LMD is holding on Saturday June 13th at the Annual Conference (only $299 for members!) Ticketed Event #280
In the podcasts, Tom Kolditz highlights his book, “In Extremis Leadership: Leading as if Your Life Depending on It,” and speaks of how, in dangerous or uncertain times, the #1 thing followers look for in their leaders is competence, and their trust depends on that competence being demonstrated. Sydney Finkelstein, talks about how good managers make bad decisions when they ignore certain warning signals. The Think Tank addresses these and other issues that information professionals who work with leaders – eurior who are in leadership positions themselves need to grapple with. Clare Hart, Executive VP Dow Jones and President, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group — is the instructor for Being Recognized, Being Heard. Clare works with the group on communication and influencing styles to ensure the message being delivered is clear, engages others and – eureka! – leads to commitments and the desired action(s).
Darrell Gunter, Chief Marketing Officer for Collexis Holdings, Inc. — is the instructor for Decisions & Judgment, with frank conversations about assessing the situation, making tough choices, and exercising that judgment — knowing when to hold and perhaps when to fold. Oh yeah – and then communicating the decision. It’s not for the faint-hearted, but critical for information professionals moving forward
Continue reading Learning with leaders, thinking like leaders, being leaders
Jane Dysart posted this in Uncategorized on March 10th, 2009 I’ve been thinking a lot about news and newspapers lately as many friends say goodbye to their newspaper careers. So I was interested in this post by Jeff Jarvis, journalist, media consultant, founder of DayLife, an online news source and content platform, and \author of What Would Google Do?
“The Guardian just announced that it is releasing all its content through an API as well as making available many different data sets through a data store, all of which can be mashed up into others’ sites and applications. They join other organizations – the BBC, National Public Radio, and The New York Times – in releasing APIs; notes that it’s the creme of news that sees the wisdom in APIs. The Guardian’s offers more than headlines: articles, video, galleries, everything. It also adds one more important element to its offering: a business model, creating an ad network for users of the API.” There’s lots more interesting stuff, and then,
“News organizations already lost control of packaging, whether they all knew it or not, when most of us most days come to content not through carefully designed home pages but through search and links and now Facebook. The media brand is less a destination and a magnet to draw people there than a label once you’ve found the content, wherever and however you found it. So the more places you can find it, the better.”
Continue reading Content: Into the Fabric of the Net
Jane Dysart posted this in Blog Posts on March 6th, 2009 Bruce James, former Public Printer of the US, was a keynote speaker a few years ago at Computers in Libraries and I was interested to read a blog post from Liz Lawley, also frequent keynote speaker for Information Today conferences. She is endorsing Carl Malamud for the position of Public Printer for the US and encourages more of us to do so. Check out her post.
Jane Dysart posted this in Conferences on March 5th, 2009 Computers in Libraries 2009 keynote Michael Edson made this fun animation for a recent talk to the 2009 Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Webwise conference. Can’t wait to see what he’ll do in DC for CIL.
Jane Dysart posted this in Blog Posts on March 5th, 2009 I was very excited last year when Information Today started a blog for the KMWorld 2008 conference last September. Lots of different people blogged live from the conference. And now, we have started the converssation early this year in preparation for KMWorld 2009, November 17-19 in San Jose CA. AND, we’re using gravatars — small pics beside the contributors to the blog. Have you got one? You can see my mine (and Dave Snowden‘s) at the KMWorldBlog. I think they are so cool and can’t wait for all the interesting uses. Watch for new voices and thoughts on this blog and please join the conversation.
If you are interested in participating in the KMWorld 2009 conference, which also encompassaes Enterprise Search West and Taxonomy Boot Camp, please check out our call for speakers.
Jane Dysart posted this in Learning on March 3rd, 2009 It’s so cool that Google recognizes Dr. Seuss and the years of children’s laughter (well actually adults love his stuff too!). I love Google pics and this one especially. It reflects all the books, films, and learning surrounding Seussville and Dr. Seuss’ many wonderful creations. Thanks!
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