One of the foundations of my dissertation was an analysis of virtual communities and the theories concerning information behavior and exchange within them. This post from the Church of the Customer Blog was most interesting: http://www.churchofthecustomer.com/blog/2007/12/the-4-types-of.html The authors identify four types of communities online: Clique Network Cult Nation Where does the Biblioblogosphere fit in? I’ve always called it a “Community of Practice” after the work of Henri & Pudelko, who presented a concise, useful typology for virtual communities back in 2003, comprised of four distinct categories and descriptions of the exchanges that occur within them: Community of interest – Information […]
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Many folks who were at my talk in Lincoln, Nebraska sent this link along. Tom Casady, the Chief of Police in Lincoln is blogging. His about the blog statement: “What’s up at the Lincoln Police Department? What’s on the chief’s mind? I’ll give you my thoughts a couple times weekly–things you’re unlikely to hear about in the media.” http://lpd304.blogspot.com/ He covers police matters, crime reports and responds to comments with thoughtful posts. I wish we had more city officials blogging like this in Oak Park or Mishawaka!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071212/wr_nm/usa_language_dc;_ylt=AgOYbyVHpW3r39qm9oMK8YcjtBAF Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster Inc. said “w00t” — typically spelled with two zeros — reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging. It’s like saying “yay,” the dictionary said. Remember these: Blog in 2004 Podcast in 2005
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This just in: http://www.blyberg.net/2007/12/10/a-loose-cannon-in-darien/ Kate Sheehan will join Darien Library as Head of Knowledge and Innovation Services on March 1, 2008. She is currently Coordinator of Library Automation at Danbury Library, blogs at loosecannonlibrarian.net, is an active speaker on Library 2.0 and social software initiatives, and has gained national recognition for implementing the first LibraryThing plug-in to a library catalog. I’ve said it before and I will say it again: watch what Darien Library does very closely. The new building and staff will exemplify a true model of innovation and planning for public libraries. And get a load of that […]
Stephen Abram points to the Dec. 2007 issue of Trendwatching offering their top 8 consumer trends for 2008. 1. Status Spheres 2. Premiumization 3. Snack Culture 4. Online Oxygen 5. Eco-Iconic 6. Brand Butlers 7. MIY – Make It Yourself 8. Crowd Mining Great stuff to be mined by library staff, as Stephen points out, and by LIS students. We did our trendspotting exercise last night, and the workgroups pointed to such trends as ubiquitous handheld devices, green libraries, and microblogging.
Great post at “Manage This” about library policy: http://managethis.informationcentre.ca/?p=50 Barbara Kelly shares some thoughts about Starbucks and libraries: So what am I saying here with these little Starbucks’ vignettes (other than wow, am I ever a demanding customer)? Well these situations bring to mind that: Policy guides us in what we do to serve the community, such as how hot the coffee should be and what to do with well meaning donations of National Geographic Policy guides our decisions when we are faced with situations such as using the wrong coffee bag or extending internet time Policy serves our mission […]
What a perfect tie in to our work in LIS701 last night. A few students shared stories that I just couldn’t believe of policies and rules at their institutions and the lack of human conversation that surrounded them. http://www.socialcustomer.com/2007/12/conversation-is.html My take: “Conversation” is just that…communication between actual human beings. This process of real conversation happens millions of times, and is only successful when the interactions are real and genuine, transparent and truthful. Conversation is the “root act” that creates transformation. Read the whole post to see how conversations can start, not with marketing speak or floods of messages but naturally. […]