Community and the Digital Experience

I’m knee-deep in wading through a bunch of articles and books on various aspects of experience design for the book I’m writing on digital experience planning, and I just had an epiphany today: I’m insane!
(No, wait - that’s not it…)
Ok - so I’ve been thinking about experience lately, both for my book and for the [...]

Non-Librarians Notice Library 2.0

Rohit Bhargava, author of the Influential Marketing Blog, has noticed library 2.0. He provides a list of why he believes in the idea of library2.0:

Everyone is a content creator and creating content is easier than ever.
A new wealth of content online means finding things is more difficult.
Algorithms and automated methods of search are no longer [...]

Two Stupid Stories for Friday

1. Blogger Kicked out of Stadium for Live Blogging the Game - dude kicked out of baseball game for live blogging… I guess they noticed his laptop? I’m calling this stupid because gee… you don’t actually NEED a laptop to live blog… you can do it with your cellphone. Video, text, pictures - all can [...]

degreetutor interviewed me

I was interviewed (via email) by degreetutor.com, and it’s up. It’s called David Lee King - Future of Librarians Interview.
Go check it out!

Basic Competencies of a 2.0 Librarian: Why Learn this Stuff?

There’s some good discussion going on related to my two posts on the Basic Competencies of a 2.0 Librarian. For example, the author of the Library Shrine blog says this: “Judging by the questions we do get, most of the competencies David Lee King suggest seem kind of unneccessary.” And an anonymous commenter said “What’s [...]

Basic Competencies of a 2.0 Librarian, take 2

From the comments on my Basic Competencies of a 2.0 Librarian, I have a few more competencies to add to the list (thank you commenters!):

Create, edit, and upload screencasts
Ability to do basic HTML editing - an understanding of (X)HTML and CSS. Here, I’m not wanting “web developer” skills - but someone who has enough of [...]

Nielsen Doesn’t Get 2.0

At least, as far as i can tell. His latest Alertbox article is a good example. The article discusses why one should “write articles, not blog postings.” His summary states: “To demonstrate world-class expertise, avoid quickly written, shallow postings. Instead, invest your time in thorough, value-added content that attracts paying customers.”
Then he goes into his [...]

Basic Competencies of a 2.0 Librarian

Update: see my Basic Competencies of a 2.0 Librarian, Take 2 - it’s an expanded list.
Emily, at the Library Revolution blog, posted about minimum tech competencies she thinks librarians should have. Her list is certainly fine - but I share her frustrations when glancing at that list! Those are all very basic skills that some [...]

Thoughts on Everything is Miscellaneous, Part 2

A few days ago, I shared some thoughts about David Weinberger’s book Everything is Miscellaneous (and Weinberger actually left a great comment, too - how cool is that?). This post is the second part of that series. It covers three random thoughts that didn’t really fit into the first post (and weren’t big enough for [...]

Pownce, anyone?

Always good to try out new networks… http://pownce.com/davidleeking/
If you try Pownce, friend me!

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