Comments on: Great little article on bad IT practices http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/ David Lee King is the Digital Branch & Services Manager at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, where he plans, implements, and experiments with emerging technology trends. He has spoken in the U.S. and Canada about emerging trends, website usability and management, digital experience planning, and managing techie staff, and has been published in many library-related journals. David writes the Internet Spotlight column in Public Libraries Magazine with Michael Porter. David maintains a blog at http://www.davidleeking.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: CBS Bibliotek » Blog Archive » 10 hemmeligheder om at arbejde i en IT-afdeling http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-10760 CBS Bibliotek » Blog Archive » 10 hemmeligheder om at arbejde i en IT-afdeling Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:00:02 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/#comment-10760 [...] via David Lee Kings blog: Great little article on bad IT practicesLæs hele artiklen: Sanity check: 10 dirty little secrets you should know about working in [...] [...] via David Lee Kings blog: Great little article on bad IT practicesLæs hele artiklen: Sanity check: 10 dirty little secrets you should know about working in [...]

]]> By: IT Guy http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-10750 IT Guy Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:11:31 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/#comment-10750 Funny, how most of the time in my experience (especially at the library I work for) it's the "veteran librarians" that refuse to accept let alone embrace new technology. And... it's the librarians that always seem to come up with ways to keep technology out because they're worried about it taking over their job. While I realize there's an image of every profession there is - and the IT image is sometimes accurate - the Web 2.0-IM-Virtual Reference-Google Lovin' library people out there need to realize that in most cases, it's not the IT department holding things back. Funny, how most of the time in my experience (especially at the library I work for) it’s the “veteran librarians” that refuse to accept let alone embrace new technology.

And… it’s the librarians that always seem to come up with ways to keep technology out because they’re worried about it taking over their job.

While I realize there’s an image of every profession there is – and the IT image is sometimes accurate – the Web 2.0-IM-Virtual Reference-Google Lovin’ library people out there need to realize that in most cases, it’s not the IT department holding things back.

]]> By: IT Guy http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-25973 IT Guy Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:11:00 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/#comment-25973 Funny, how most of the time in my experience (especially at the library I work for) it's the "veteran librarians" that refuse to accept let alone embrace new technology. And... it's the librarians that always seem to come up with ways to keep technology out because they're worried about it taking over their job. While I realize there's an image of every profession there is - and the IT image is sometimes accurate - the Web 2.0-IM-Virtual Reference-Google Lovin' library people out there need to realize that in most cases, it's not the IT department holding things back. Funny, how most of the time in my experience (especially at the library I work for) it’s the “veteran librarians” that refuse to accept let alone embrace new technology.

And… it’s the librarians that always seem to come up with ways to keep technology out because they’re worried about it taking over their job.

While I realize there’s an image of every profession there is – and the IT image is sometimes accurate – the Web 2.0-IM-Virtual Reference-Google Lovin’ library people out there need to realize that in most cases, it’s not the IT department holding things back.

]]> By: Woeful http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-10723 Woeful Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:02:47 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/#comment-10723 IT Departments also have valid concerns about the institution-wide uniformity, of the solutions implemented, the security of those solutions, and what I call the volatility of the solutions (how they get along with the rest of the software/network). Subsequently, many IT Departments take an, "If it ain't broke, don't fix" it attitude regarding system stability (even critical updates). Often times, working for municipal government with its funding crisis, union restrictions, legal paralysis, and the glacial pace of getting anything done at all, a stable system is preferential to the chaos of experimentation. That said, I wish they let us experiment a bit more where I work. Experimentation breeds new, and innovative ideas. So what if the solution doesn't work well? If this should happen, just revert back to what you were doing and no harm was done... At least you tried. IT Departments also have valid concerns about the institution-wide uniformity, of the solutions implemented, the security of those solutions, and what I call the volatility of the solutions (how they get along with the rest of the software/network). Subsequently, many IT Departments take an, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix” it attitude regarding system stability (even critical updates).

Often times, working for municipal government with its funding crisis, union restrictions, legal paralysis, and the glacial pace of getting anything done at all, a stable system is preferential to the chaos of experimentation. That said, I wish they let us experiment a bit more where I work. Experimentation breeds new, and innovative ideas. So what if the solution doesn’t work well? If this should happen, just revert back to what you were doing and no harm was done… At least you tried.

]]> By: Woeful http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-25972 Woeful Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:02:00 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/#comment-25972 IT Departments also have valid concerns about the institution-wide uniformity, of the solutions implemented, the security of those solutions, and what I call the volatility of the solutions (how they get along with the rest of the software/network). Subsequently, many IT Departments take an, "If it ain't broke, don't fix" it attitude regarding system stability (even critical updates). Often times, working for municipal government with its funding crisis, union restrictions, legal paralysis, and the glacial pace of getting anything done at all, a stable system is preferential to the chaos of experimentation. That said, I wish they let us experiment a bit more where I work. Experimentation breeds new, and innovative ideas. So what if the solution doesn't work well? If this should happen, just revert back to what you were doing and no harm was done... At least you tried. IT Departments also have valid concerns about the institution-wide uniformity, of the solutions implemented, the security of those solutions, and what I call the volatility of the solutions (how they get along with the rest of the software/network). Subsequently, many IT Departments take an, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix” it attitude regarding system stability (even critical updates).

Often times, working for municipal government with its funding crisis, union restrictions, legal paralysis, and the glacial pace of getting anything done at all, a stable system is preferential to the chaos of experimentation. That said, I wish they let us experiment a bit more where I work. Experimentation breeds new, and innovative ideas. So what if the solution doesn’t work well? If this should happen, just revert back to what you were doing and no harm was done… At least you tried.

]]> By: david lee king http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-10721 david lee king Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:32:13 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/#comment-10721 Jon - thanks for speaking up! I have changed the color back to black and just left the quote in italics. While there, I also cleaned up the odd formatting that happened when I copy/pasted. Jon – thanks for speaking up! I have changed the color back to black and just left the quote in italics.

While there, I also cleaned up the odd formatting that happened when I copy/pasted.

]]> By: david lee king http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-25971 david lee king Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:32:00 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/#comment-25971 Jon - thanks for speaking up! I have changed the color back to black and just left the quote in italics. While there, I also cleaned up the odd formatting that happened when I copy/pasted. Jon – thanks for speaking up! I have changed the color back to black and just left the quote in italics.

While there, I also cleaned up the odd formatting that happened when I copy/pasted.

]]> By: Jon Gorman http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-10720 Jon Gorman Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:24:23 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/#comment-10720 This color seems really hard for me to read, I don't know about others. To make it worse, it's in the feed as well, which I'd rather have the quote/extract indicated in some other way. This color seems really hard for me to read, I don’t know about others. To make it worse, it’s in the feed as well, which I’d rather have the quote/extract indicated in some other way.

]]> By: Jon Gorman http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-25970 Jon Gorman Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:24:00 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/#comment-25970 This color seems really hard for me to read, I don't know about others. To make it worse, it's in the feed as well, which I'd rather have the quote/extract indicated in some other way. This color seems really hard for me to read, I don’t know about others. To make it worse, it’s in the feed as well, which I’d rather have the quote/extract indicated in some other way.

]]> By: University Update - Linux - Great little article on bad IT practices http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-10706 University Update - Linux - Great little article on bad IT practices Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:54:48 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/15/great-little-article-on-bad-it-practices/#comment-10706 [...] Great little article on bad IT practices » This Summary is from an article posted at David Lee King on Monday, October 15, 2007 Go read [...] [...] Great little article on bad IT practices » This Summary is from an article posted at David Lee King on Monday, October 15, 2007 Go read [...]

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