If you are doing anything in the learning arena (either formal or informal learning – just helping people “get it” in terms of doing something or knowing something), be sure to follow Jane Hart’s E-learning Pick of the Day, and link to her other sites and blogs as well, including her homebase, Centre for Learning [...]
Earlier this week Karen Huffman, (an incredible thinker, and even more importantly “doer” with National Geographic), mused on her Facebook status whether it was ok to “re-write dreams based on life changes.” Oh yeah. It’s not only ok, it’s necessary. I empathize with Karen’s wonderings, as do many of us. Our dream for our life [...]
I just watched Citrix’s webinar that they co-hosted with workshifting.com and gotomypc.com on “Thinking Outside the Cubicle: The Evolving 21st-Century Virtual Office”. It certainly wasn’t a good webinar, but I did stick through most of it because I’m so hungry for anything that looks at how people are working, are going to be working and [...]
Moira Fraser of the new Zealand Parliamentary Library is presenting the results of a 2009 survey on the use of ICT tools in parliamentary libraries. There were 32 responses from 27 countries, from Albania to Zambia. with respoect to the involvement in the organization of the contents of parliament website, 4 have no involvement, 4 [...]
Rosabeth Moss Kanter has such a fabulous way of saying things. Her definition of insanity, “doing the same things over & over expecting different results,” is timeless and one that even our teenage daughter recites. Her Change Master blog encouraging organizations to “dread” change is, again, bang on. As she so rightly advises, “Get in [...]
The Library & Reseaerch Services for Parliaments section of IFLA is meeting at the Joint Parliamentary Library building in Rome, a former monastary (where Galileo was tried) with wonderful frescos, marble, wood as well as a fantastic view of the top of the Pantheon from the cafeteria on the 6th floor. What an amazing venue [...]
So today’s Google pic so reminds me of Toronto weather this summer — dark, stormy, noisy, with lots of flashes of lighening. However, it is really for the Perseids meteor show which peaks tonight. Maybe we’ll be able to see it in my neck of the woods, but I wouldn’t count on it!
Further to my recent post on Transparency, Strategy & Success where I linked to Michael Edson‘s talk on the Smithsonian’s transparency strategy process, the Smithsonian Institution has relased its web and new media strategy. “The strategy talks about an updated digital experience, a new learning model that helps people with their “lifelong learning journeys,” and [...]