Isn’t it interesting that as the Special Libraries Association, a 11,000+ member organization representing corporate, government, industry, medical, hospital, and legal libraries as well as other specialized libraries residing in larger institutions, discusses once again a possible name change to the 100 year old organization that a there is an organization called The Corporate Library. [...]
Even though I’m disappointed in the weather during my excursion to the Eastern Shore of the US following a gruelling week of conference-going in DC (SLA and see our twitter feed) , I am blessed to spend the time in a beautiful environment with great friends and get re-energized. And I am always happy to [...]
I have the incredible privilege of giving a session with Mary Lee Kennedy and Deb Wallace of Harvard Business School on critical thinking at SLA 2009 tomorrow. Unfortunately, Mary Lee won’t be there in person, but she certainly will be there in content and in spirit. Mary Lee embodies critical thinking — viewing “what is” and [...]
I totally disagree with this statement (see below for the full context) — “The word ‘conference’ is synonymous with bad food, hard chairs and boring speakers. At least it is for many of us.” But then, maybe I’m spoiled by the organizations I work with as a conference planner (Information Today is a great conference [...]
This could be really interesting. Am checking out the video and sneak peek and a good article from CIO magazine. “Google’s newly unveiled Wave may be called a communication and collaboration tool, but it’s much more than that. Wave combines key trends that we’ve seen the last couple years on the Web into one elegant [...]
Wish I had been at the first Twitter conference “focused on Twitter as a business platform: how to use Twitter to reach and engage customers, influence opinions and activate markets.” Great speakers, a number of whom I am already following, and including the fellow who created the Twitterverse pic in my last post. Live tweeting, [...]