Remember this? A TTW reader just sent this: http://newsletter.logoworks.com/index.php/top-ten-reasons-why-people-quit-their-jobs/07/31/2006/ Top Ten Reasons Why People Quit Their Jobs Includes: Management promotes someone who lacks training and/or necessary experience to supervisor, alienating staff and driving away good employees. Management doesn’t allow the rank and file to make decisions or allow them pride of ownership. A visitor to my website E-mailed me a message that said, “Forget about the “professional” decisions—how about when you can’t even select the company’s holiday card without the President rejecting it for one of his own taste?” I can’t help think of the Teen Librarians at ImaginOn at […]
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Checkout the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative blog by Peter Bromberg! More Cooperatives and state associations need to be blogging and this is one good example of how to do it!
imaginon 011 Originally uploaded by crr29061. Dr. Curtis Rogers took many pics of the Library 2.0 Tech Summit! Here I am sitting for a bit as we discuss audience questions. Here’d Curtis’ set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/curtisrogers/sets/72157594224240348/
This blog has been set-up as part of PLCMC’s Learning 2.0 project to encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today. The objectives of this program are to: encourage exploration of Web 2.0 and new technologies by PLCMC staff. provide staff with new tools (that are freely available on the Internet) to better support PLCMC’s mission: Expanding minds, Empowering individuals and Enriching our community. reward staff for taking the initiative to complete 23 self-discovery exercises. http://plcmclearning.blogspot.com/ Yesterday, Michael Casey and I gave presentations at the […]
Danny Sullivan in USA Today Originally uploaded by mstephens7. Nice article in the Money section! I saw Danny keynote in London a couple of years ago – he was great! www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2006-08-01-s…
Cowbell Originally uploaded by Wandering Eyre.
http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n2/a25.html Jack M. Maness MLS, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries Many might consider IM a Web 1.0 technology, as its inception predates the technology market crash and it often requires the downloading of software, whereas most 2.0 applications are wholly web-based. It is here considered 2.0 as it is consistent with the tenets of Library 2.0: it allows a user presence within the library web-presence; it allows collaboration between patrons and librarians; and it allows a more dynamic experience than the fundamentally static, created-then-consume nature of 1.0 services. It is also considered 2.0 as it is becoming a more […]
I am very proud of the SJCPL Circulation folks. They started a wiki after Staff Day this year to capture thoughts, brainstorms, all the times they say “No” to patrons and more. One of the circulations folks emailed this screenshot and said they’ve had meetings to discuss barriers to service! Rock ON!
http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/07/the_audience_is.html Chris Anderson links to a video he uses in his talks: For the past year or so, I’ve been ending many of my speeches with this brilliant video by Peter Hirshberg of Technorati, and Michel Markman. They showed it first at at the D conference last year and a few times since then, such as the EG conference earlier this year. Now Michel’s uploaded it to YouTube for everyone to enjoy. Some of the lines, such as “There are a lot more of them than there are of us” and title of this post, are now permanently lodged in […]
Greetings from my Sidekick 3…this is a test.