Sharing info thru the Web…One Web App @ a Time
Conferences Notes
Digital Managers Sound Off
Apr 12th
Bobbi Newman, David King, Sarah Houghton-Jan, Matt Hamilton
#dbsoundoff — session hashtag on Twitter
Panel Job Titles
David King: Digital Branch Manager, Topeka-Shawnee County Public Library
Sarah Houghton-Jan: Digital Futures Manager, San Jose Public Library. IT at Sarah’s library doesn’t want to support software on the machines, so she’s started doing that and making the decisions.
Bobbi Newman: Digital Branch Manager, Chatahoochee Valley Libraries. No staff, no funding. Liaison between IT and the rest of the library staff. Translates between tech & non-techie. Does the technical training for the staff.
Matt Hamilton: missed his title, Boulder Public Library.
The panel arranged itself in gadget order: iPad–> Full-size laptop.
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Analyzing, Evaluating and Communicating the Value of Web Presence
Apr 12th
Michael Porter and Amanda Clay Powers
don’t let “that’s the way we’ve always done it” or “we are too busy” kill our libraries. –Michael Porter.
Michael’s part
ROI: What it is. What it is for libs. Why you care/don’t need to care.
Slides will be online later.
Case to invest staff time, see Oliver Blanchard’s site (business community leader), smroi.net
“Social media is just a spoke in the wheel.” –Jason Falls, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
Create your goals, then measurable objectives, then strategies to met the objectives, then tactics to accomplish the strategies. –Jason Falls.
Video: Social Media ROI: Socialnomics
See, ROI can be pretty COOL….can tell a story. “there More >
Libraries & Transliteracy
Apr 12th
Bobbi Newman, Matt Hamilton, Buffy Hamilton
Bobbi’s part
Transliteracy: ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools, and media.
Fast evolution of technology going on. Industrial revolution will look small by comparison.
1976: first Jobs’ apple computer creatd.
1998: iMac
2001: first iPod
2007: first iPhone
2010: first iPad
Information used to be consumed through the printed word. Information overload concerns been around for a very long time & are not new.
Life being changed by drastic technology changes. Taxes, health info, statutes, contact information, paying bills, social media. Privacy, life online. Password strength (hacking).
Access to internet is increasing. Free wifi just about anywhere. A lot More >
Pivot Points for Change Session
Apr 12th
Connecting the dots of information literacy with social media.
-Buffy Hamilton, Internet & Schools East, April 2010.
Rethinking ways we can instruct our students with information literacy.
- How do we support and scaffold students’ ability to read and write an ever-growing world of information?
- How do we adapt our pracitce as librarians to effectively cultivate informationally fluent students who will thrive in today’s society? — help them learn to analyze/evaluate information.
-Seth Godin: “when industry norms start to die, people panic. it’s difficult to change when you think that you must change everything in order to succeed. Changing everything is too More >
Monday Keynote: Info Fluency & Imagining the Internet
Apr 12th
Here’s my notes from the keynote. They are quite lengthy, and unformatted; will try to come back later and do so.
Technology is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts w one hand, and stabs you in the back with the other. -CP Snow.
Lew Rainie, PEW Internet. They are like Internet archaelogists – study it, but don’t make judgments.
@lrainie –
@Pew_Internet
Tweckle: heckling a speaker on Twitter.
The Internet is the change agent: THEN and now
2000
46% of adults use internet
5% w broadband at home
50% own a cell phone
0% connect to internet wirelessly
less than 10% use “cloud”
=Slow, stationary connection built around my computer
2010
75% of More >
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