I’ve been following the ALA L2 Blogs and exchanging emails with many of the participants. This little bit comes from Don Wood, an ALA staff member who I go to meet in person at the ALA 2.0 Roadshow we did this spring. Don really taps onto something that is important: the concepts of L2 do not seek to push aside everything we’ve always done or alienate current users of libraries. My comment on Brian Gray’s blog pretty well sums up how I feel about how I see the spirit of this 2.0 project. Libraries should become, to coin a phrase, […]
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tuftsstuff magazine cover Originally uploaded by Weymouth Public Library Of all the Web 2.0 tools, my favorite has to be Flickr. A few months ago I posted 10 Reasons to Use Flickr at Your Library. While on the Minnesota tour, more than a few folks marvelled at what Flickr could do for libraries: getting out into the social pool, offering easy storage for any size library on any budget, and creating a more dynamic atmosphere for tagging, comments and more. I’ll advocate again: get a flickr account at your library! Here’s why: For no muss no fuss image storage for […]
John Blyberg on Radical Trust: At the end of the day, collaboration is the trust-builder between staff members. Getting two or more people or organizations together to work on a project lets everyone see what the others are capable of. The very act of creating something as a group builds a bond between people that no other activity can. Of course, this assumes that all participants pull their weight and put in the effort expected of them. Again, supervisors need to check in with project members to see ho things are going without becoming a micro-manager. Sometimes, if someone is […]
So much of the content over at the ALAL2 Blogs is incredible! Peter Bromberg blew me away today with his L2 Manifesto. He cross-posted at LG. Go here: http://librarygarden.blogspot.com/2006/05/thoughts-on-ala-bootcamp-l20-manifesto.html I zipped over to the wiki Peter put up and added these about the human voice and PR speak: Conversations flourish when participants use a human voice. Organizations need to learn to speak in a human voice. To speak in a human voice, organizations need to share the concerns of their communities.* Corporations can play too, but had better understand the conversation. We can tell corporate speak and PR mumbo jumbo […]
On the Minnesota tour, I spoke a lot about how libraries can learn from The Cluetrain Manifesto, which says: “These markets are conversations. Their members communicate in language that is natural, open, honest, direct, funny and often shocking. Whether explaining or complaining, joking or serious, the human voice is unmistakably genuine. It can’t be faked. Most corporations, on the other hand, only know how to talk in the soothing, humorless monotone of the mission statement, marketing brochure, and your-call-is-important-to-us busy signal. Same old tone, same old lies. No wonder networked markets have no respect for companies unable or unwilling to […]
Welcome to Library 2.0! I had breakfast today with some of the coolest librarians from Hennepin County Library and I nearly fell off my chair when I heard they had just rolled out patron comments in the catalog! With barcode or an e-mail, userrs can comment on their favorite materials. Hurrah for Hennepin! ILS vendors …watch this closely…these are features our users and librarians want!
We travelled 200 miles south from Mountatin Iron to Minnetonka, just outside Minneapolis for the last day of the tour. (If you look up exhausted in the dictionary, there’s a picture of me)
Michael and Stick Originally uploaded by mbsam. We happened across yet another strangely large object!
We travelled 190 miles from Detroit Lakes to Virginia/Mountain Iron. We have a blogger that drove up from Wisconsin today! Take a look at that Title and tagline/quote!
We travelled 170 miles from Willmar to Detroit Lakes.