Enterprise Blogging article in InfoWorld

The current edition of InfoWorld has an article about enterprise blogging, or blogging within or for a company. The article has some great quotes and ideas:
Definitions:

“Blogs and wikis play opposite roles… blogs are based on an individual voice; a blog is sort of a personal broadcasting system. Wikis, because they give people the chance to [...]

Filtering Day at my Library

 
Wow - it’s been quite the filtering day here at the library. I had a question directed to me about filtering… I ended up talking to a Missouri Probation and Parole Officer about what we filter and how websites that are filtered behave.

We discussed risque images, pop-up windows, and just what happens when a library [...]

Remixed Information Rap

 

There’s always a highly entertaining (and useful) Dead and Emerging Technologies forum at the Computers in Libraries conference. This year, D. Scott Brandt (who usually moderates these forums) started us off with a fun spoof of the “I’m too sexy” song - but he turned it into a rap about technology. It was pretty funny.
So, [...]

Computers in Libraries 2005 Presentations are Online

 
For anyone who missed out on Computers in Libraries 2005, go to Information Today’s Presentations page, and enjoy! Many presentations are up now, and more are being added. Here are links to my two presentations:

KCResearch: Providing Localized Content with Federated Search Technology
Targeting Library Websites to Specific User Groups

Rather than providing the Powerpoint files, this time around I [...]

Interesting Questions Heard at Computers in Libraries

At the end of sessions, there’s usually time for a question and answer time. Some of the questions I heard made me wonder… but first, a disclaimer: questions and people who ask them rock. I’m glad people ask them. Things that seem basic to me are new to others (and vice-versa, depending on the topic). [...]

Computers in Libraries 2005 - David’s Wrap Up

This has been a great conference! My two presentations went extremely well, and I have learned stuff. Both good things!
Just off the top of my head, here are some buzzwords and phrases I heard practically everywhere, everyday:

IM
podcasting
collaboration
community
RSS
Wiki
institutional repository
content management

Computers in Libraries 2005 Day 3

I attended Chris Sherman’s morning session on search engines coolness… some neat things I heard:
He suggested that libraries purchase ad words on Google. Not for general words like, say, “libraries” - but on more specific words (see my stuff on topic driven content!). Very interesting idea.
He demonstrated Keyhole (keyhole.com, I think). It’s a visual map [...]

Computers in Libraries 2005 Day 2 (Afternoon sessions)

1:45pm – Collaboration & IM: Breaking Down Boundaries (Michael Stephens and Aaron Schmidt)
Aaron:

7 billion IM messages sent each day!
60% of big businesses will be IMing by the end of this year… wow.
Conversation instead of sending letters
Interesting comment – a patron who he met through IM seemed one way online (vivacious) but in reality was timid.
Duke’s [...]

Computers in Libraries 2005, Day 2 (morning sessions)

10:30am - Beyond Virtual Libraries (Dr. Laverna Saunders)\
All about tech changes in academic libraries.
Good quote that really sums up the whole conference so far (she quoted someone else): “our world is about to change in a big, big way.”
She mentioned some useful trend trackers – OCLC (Environmental scan), Gartner, Pew Research Center, CIL, etc.
Millenials:Good stuff [...]

Computers in Libraries 2005, Day 1, Afternoon Sessions

1:45pm - Stephen Abrams: Technologies and innovations related to the future of library services
Next massive wave of innovation and demand for it will start in 2005/2006, similar to what happened at the turn of the last century (cars, phones, tv, electricity, etc)
Things to watch for in the next few years:
- secure broadband wireless will [...]

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