Top Ten Links – Week 2
My hand selected best links I shared on Twitter from 1/8/2010 through 1/14/2010 in no particular oder:
- Just call me Tenzing Norbook, I guess. Toby Greenwalt’s response to Seth Godin’s post about libraries and the discussion that takes place in the comments.
- 2010: The Only Year of the E-Reader great article from Fast Company on why, despite the awesomeness of many of the new ereaders, they wont be sticking around long.
- Top Innovators Practice 5 Skills the Rest of Us Don’t if you can stand yet another article about innovation the 5 skills are something we should all be doing, innovator or not.
- To Know the Library Is To Love the Library — But Who Knows the Library? Toby’s article on the Huffington Post
- A Taxonomy of Reflection: Critical Thinking For Students, Teachers, and Principals (Part I)
- How to remove yourself from a Twitter List – lets face it, check what twitter lists you’re on is just one more part of being aware of your online identity, if you show up on one you don’t like you have some options
- Perpetual Beta – a new blog from Jason Griffey and American Libraries, about technology of course.
- Protecting Reputations Online in Plain English – another fine video from the guys at CommonCraft
- The Alexander Graham Bell Guide to Changing the World – ideas are good, action is better.
- All the ones from ALA Learning – blog authors introduction & interviews, and two new bloggers! Buffy Hamilton and Lauren Pressley!
Steven Bell – Design Your Way to a Future Proof Library
Notes from the 2009 COMO conference in Columbus GA
Design your way to a future proof library
What does organizational fitness mean?
Pennsylvania clear cut forests now beautiful national forests
Lumber industry did not make it thru the 1920s, they did not future proof, just clear cut without any thought to the future
When was the last time you exercised with books in your library? There is some connection between personal fitness and organizational fitness, it has to do with commitment to change
Darwin, survival of the fitness, natural selection,
Future proofing – issue of library journal
trying to put a system in place in the future
what should we be doing to make sure our org stays fit, stays strong so we can keep doing all the important things we’re doing
don’t try to predict the future instead use design thinking, instructional design
clip from jim Collins, good to be paranoid
Only the Paranoid Survive – book by Andrew S. Cline
Inflection curve, always going through a cycle of improvement and decline, when you get to the inflection point you either continue to go up or you go down, and start the cycle over again
One of the most disruptive things is when a new product or service comes along and causes a problem for your business.
What’s a problem for libraries? Google, they stole our lunch
Focus on the customer experience, not the technology
The Deep Dive: The Design Thinking Process, segment of the Nightline show with Ted Kopel
Bright orange vest for student workers!
Libraries and Transliteracy – the video version
I took my slideshow on transliteracy and turned it into a video. I was curious about how easy it was to turn a slideshow into a video (its super easy!) so I thought I’d try it. Most of my presentations aren’t meant to stand alone and so don’t really translate well to video. When I was putting the transliteracy one together I wanted it to be able to stand alone, so I thought I’d give it a try. A little self indulgent I know 
But anyway here it is.
Learn more about transliteracy
Libraries and Transliteracy Slideshow
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about transliteracy and how important the concept is for libraries and librarians. I’ve created a slideshow I hope conveys the message and is easy to share.
I have also added page with information on transliteracy.
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