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Jane Dysart posted this in Learning on March 16th, 2009 Isn’t this an interesting Google pic? Reminded me of snow and red rock. I love the southwest of the US with its wonderful red rock, always stimulates me when I’m around it. And to see red rock hills and mountains with snow is such a treat.
However, this Google pic was designed for a different reason. “In 1890, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli drew this map of Mars… on his 174th birthday, we are excited to include his work with many other new features for Mars in Google Earth.
We salute Schiaparelli’s pioneering spirit, his drive to explore, and his desire to understand the universe. His observations impacted the way humans viewed Mars for nearly a century and started a revolution in Astronomy.” Pioneering, exploration, understanding, thinking, stimulating…. well maybe there is a connection!
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 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!
Jane Dysart posted this in Conferences, Learning on October 21st, 2008 Great workshops on the weekend here in Monterey CA — I can tell by all the enthusiasm and buzz and the ideas that are flying around. The first two keynote speakers have sparked some great discussions already.
Howard Rheingold (who did a talk for me in Toronto in the early 90′son virtual communities) talked about the “Social media classroom“, now under development, that will allow students to switch from blogs to forms to wikis to chat to microblogs fluidly. For more coverage of Howard’s talk see Don Hawkins piece and Jaap van de Geer’s conducted a brief interview with Rheingold.
Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land , casual and funny as ever, had lots of information which was covered well by Paula Hane. I loved his term “Killerettes” to describe the smaller apps that nibbles at the Google gorilla. Check out my post on the Infotoday blog. Lots of conference converage there from Information Today editors and links to many other conference bloggers. You can get a great feeling for what’s happening here at IL2008!
Rebecca Jones posted this in Learning on September 10th, 2008 Rightly or wrongly, I’ve always seen similarities between the library profession and (hold onto your hat…..) IT (ok, no surprise there) as well as the military and police (ok, I’m fully prepared to discuss….). Why? Well, I guess because our profession has as many stigma and stereotypes bogging it down as the police and the armed forces do. We also have practices and approaches that we’ve used for years that many in the profession are working hard to change.
So, I was quite interested to read that the Vancouver Police Dept is using Second Life as a recruiting place. YES! The police are facing a recruitment shortage – much like the library profession. “We needed to do things differently, and with the changes going on in society we wanted to attract a new class of applicants,” said McQuiggin. “We also wanted to differentiate ourselves and give applicants a reason to choose the Vancouver Police rather than other agencies.” That’s when the VPD came up with an innovative idea. As the new frontiers of the Web have become a second home to Generations X and Y, why not use these new frontiers as a means of recruiting?
And so it got me to think….are the faculties of information studies using Second Life to recruit students? Are libraries using Second Life to recruit new talent? Please let me know. I’d like to follow this, and I may be way behind on the organizations using SL for this purpose.
Continue reading Using Second Life as a recruiting platform – anyone doing this?
Jane Dysart posted this in Conferences, Learning on June 4th, 2008 So the Special Libraries Association annual conference is being held this year in Seattle and the Seattle chapter of SLA has created a great wiki for attendees and those who want to see what’s going on at the event. Lots of great stuff there and Daniel Lee, President of the Toronto Chaper, has created a great piece on using Twitter at the conference. It is part of the Innovation Lab that current preseident, Stephen Abram, is pushing to get our members our try new technologies and techniques for communicating. Good going guys!
Jane Dysart posted this in Learning on May 26th, 2008 It is hard for me to imagine that I have been married for 35 years today — yes I was only 3 years old when I was married (kidding!). AND, my business partner, Rebecca Jones, and I have been together for more than 15 years. I am blessed with two long-standing, and wonderful partners. My mother recently pointed out an article in the newspaper about the longevity of marriages/partnerships being due to annoying your partner. Guess my partners know all about that! Partners take the good and bad, the strengths and challenges, and support one another in all the important ways. I have been reflecting on this for a few days and want everyone to know how lucky I am!
Jane Dysart posted this in Learning on May 22nd, 2008 Further to my post last week about the Google competition for K-12 students, here is the winner of the contest. Since we seem to have gone from long, cold winter where I live to a rainy, cool spring, I agree this is great! Thanks Google for encouraging students to share their artistic insights. For more info check out Google’s blog about this.
Jane Dysart posted this in Learning on May 14th, 2008 Thanks so much Amy for pointing this out to me! Most people know I love the Google doodles they publish for vaious occasions as I often include them here (see Mother’s Day Google doodle below). But how about this from Google:
Doodle 4 Google is a competition where we invite K-12 students to reinvent Google’s homepage logo. This year we asked U.S. kids to doodle around the theme “What if…?”
And you can vote for your favorite from different levels of school kids! I have two favorites in the K-3 group — the kids (called friendship rules) and the butterflies/birds/flowers (spring into Google — probably because winter here was so long this one really draws me). And the fish Google doodle (thinking like a goldfish) in the 4-6 group is hilarious! In the 7-9 group I really like the dragons and castle called ‘Once upon a Google”. These kis are talented. Check out the 10-12 “Gothic Google Architecture Blueprint”. Awesome. Only problem is there are so many good ones, I’m finding it hard to vote!
Jane Dysart posted this in Learning on April 23rd, 2008 Alex Bennet, former (and first) Chief Knowledge Officer of the U. S. Department of the Navy, just sent me a copy of the book she, her husband and others just published — Knowledge Mobilization in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Moving from Research to Action. From the prologue: “The leadership shown by the government of Canada in creating and implementing the Knowledge Impact on Society program designed to moe knowledge from the researcher to the citizens has stimulated the preparation and research forwarded in this book….The Canadian approach to knowledge mobilization serves as a model for future research…” Chapters include: Exploring knowledge mobilization(KMb); Theory & approaches; The KMb program and process; The KMb activities model; Involving & evolving students; Execution in the action space; Outcomes & impacts; The KIS of SSHRC (mini case study of the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada); Power plus comes of age.
Alex & David Bennet are also founders of The Mountain Quest Institute – “a research, retreat, and learning center dedicated to helping individuals achieve personal and professional growth and organizations create and sustain high performance in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and increasinly complex world.”
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