Daily Archives: October 24, 2005

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Ten Steps to Insure Staff Buy-In for the Technology Projects

A companion to a presentation I’m giving at Internet Librarian 2005. Download the big old 10MB file here! Ten Steps to Insure Staff Buy-In for the Technology Projects “Why are we doing this?” A few months ago the Reference staff at SJCPL trained the librarians who would be using IM at their service desks. Katie, who was doing the particular session I heard about, asked the group: “Why are we doing this training?” “IM is cool” Someone said…”IM is so hot right now,” said another (who may read my blog too much!) “Nope,” Katie said. “We are doing this because […]

Breakfast Tea & Internet Librarians

I’m up early! (J-E-T you are so BAD for me!) and I’m working on a few things for this mornings Public Library track at Internet Librarian 2005. So far this experience has been incredible! I taught 3 workshops over the weekend and got to chit chat with librarians from all over the US as well as Canada AND Copenhagen! Darlene Fichter and I taught “Organizational Weblogs” and my big AHA moment there was the fact that two of the participants were present because their organizations had a blogging initiative in their strategic or long range plans. Do you have such […]