Taxonomy Boot Camp Nov 15-16, 2010 in Wash DC

Information Today has redesigned its Taxonomy Boot Camp site, and networked with LinkedIn.  This boutique conference holds its own in this economy as it brings together those working on taxonomies, metadata, repositories and any way to harness and organize information.  They come from libraries, corporate environments, government departments and professional services to gather in Washington, DC [...]

Live from IFLA! Learning presentations

Frank Cervone and Jane Dysart are talking about Global Online Learning Resources today at IFLA 2010 in Sweden, and Cindy Hill is presenting E-system for delivering San Jose Distance Learning Programme. Both presentations are here: Frank Cervone & Jane Dysart Global Learning Resources @ IFLA2010 and Cindy Hill Elearning System for Delivering San Jose Distance [...]

The Power of the Word: Solving Problems

At IFLA‘s opening ceremonies, Jan Eliasson, former President of the United Nations General Assembly and Minister for Foreign Affairs for Sweden, talked about communication and access to information in a globalized world.  He began by noting that the room here in his native city, was a reminder of the UN with the world in Gothenburg. [There [...]

Canada 3.0: Canada’s Digital Economy

Wish I’d been able to attend this event, but here are the 15 ideas, spanning 5 streams: creating, learning, empowering, changing, revolutionizing, that recommend ways to improve Canada’s digital economy based on the issues raised during the two-day discussions.  Here’s the summary from Jennifer Kavur, Computer World Canada, The creating stream, presented by Tim Jackson, founder [...]

TaxoDiary: New indexing & taxonomy blog

Access Innovations, Inc. has launched “TaxoDiary” Blog covering new, articles and posts about indexing, ontologies, taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, metatagging and related subjects.  Marjorie M.K. Hlava, president and chair of Access Innovations, Inc. will be speaking at Taxonomy Boot Camp in Washington, DC on Mon Nov 15th, 2010.  Congrats to Marjie & Jay Ven Emen on this [...]

Internet Librarian 2010: Adding Value

Computers in Libraries goes Social!

It’s so exciting how Information Today is using its content management system to build a community for their conference events that I’m using Google’s doodle to celebrate with some fiddling! Yes today is the 332nd birthday of Antonio Vivaldi, an Italian composer. But I digress, something unusual for me, right?

Human Library @ OLA

What a great idea, the Human Library. I’m so pleased to be participating in the Human Library @ OLA as the “Networking Librarian” on Thursday morning Feb 25th at 10 am at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.  Come join me.  Here’s the idea: The Human Library in its [...]

Happy Holidays & All the Best in 2010!

It’s amazing how fast a year goes by and how much we cram into 365 days.  Hope everyone has a great holiday season and a terrific year in 2010!  At this time of year, I always look ahead to what’s to come, and 2010 looks like it’s shaping up to be exciting.  Here’s a peek [...]

Emerging Tech & the Future of Biz

“Adopting technologies without a strategy results in wasted time & effort”.  How many times have you said this?  Check out KMWorld 2009 keynote speaker Charlene Li‘s slides.   Some great tips.  Her theme, “the future of business requires a holistic approach to adopting and integrating emerging technologies” is the same message Rebecca and I use with [...]