Matt Hamilton : Libraries and Innovation : creating environments for encouraging and supporting creativity and innovation among staff
How do we begin the messy job of creating a culture of innovation
What will you need? Patience, perseverance, vision and a way to empower staff
Patience is hard to come by for innovators, we see something and want it now, and have made the change before others even see it coming
Get comfortable with ambiguity
incubation
Don’t be afraid to use the word – pilot, even if it fails it encourages others to try new things
Look before you leap, but don’t be afraid to leap
To lead others – we need to create and communicate a compelling vision, build ways to communicate and to listen even if you don’t like what you hear
Keep articulating vision until its truly shared, this means address the concerns of people who aren’t on board
Look for hidden treasures, mine the skills that already exist, find out what ppl did before they came to your organization, discover passions and hobbies
Push power down org chart wherever and whenever possible
Empower staff at all levels of organizations
Create an environment where people enjoy coming to work, this helps the best people come to you
Give your ideas and your people the time they need – you’ll get the most out of your people if they are allowed to grow, the same is true for your ideas
Let your staff play – like google allows employees to spend 10% of time on project of own design
Question – if we are gonna have these new duties how will we get everything done? Allows staff to work on things of their own choosing if they found time
Demonstrate that we trust and respect our staff to made good judgement in pursuit of noble goals
If you lead them to freedom they will follow, freed from monotony, cubicles and stifling policies
Sing praise of colleagues in and outside of org
Don’t try to do too much, some of your project will rust while pursuing others

We can’t all move at the speed of our ideas

Where the world sees trash Africa recycles – balls of trash childen in afica use to play soccer

Questions:

You talked about pushing power down the chart, do you have examples for directors on they can do that? Let your staff make decisions

Have you ever crashed and burned trying to start a project if so how do you reinstile confidence? Yes, build up a peer group so you can demonstrate the idea outside of the organization, then inside might reconsider

With new duties how do we find time? How do you motivate people who just say they are too busy? Talk with staff, background, career goals and what got them excited? They were so excited that they could select something and follow through with it that they were able to find time.  There are some people who are particarlury motiviated to do anything other than to come to work and get their paycheck

Rick – Likes idea of project  and things being in beta, can sometimes do things because it’s a trial, sometimes can bring others on by saying where just gonna try this for a whileSimilar Posts:

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Symantec tagging
Microformats – hcard
Web as a database – rdf, subset of xml
Rdfdata.org
Instead of holding all info in proprietary databases data will be coded
Data.gov
SPARQL – sql for rdf
Web as application – mashups
Questions:
How many security issues are we looking at? Shouldn’t put any info out there that is sensitive
Has anyone looked at DDS attacks against this sort of thing, it would be pretty easy to take one down – no that she knows of
When you say microformats I think fiche – what does microformat mean in a web3.0 context – way to tag your content in a semantic way, defines text
Are we putting metadata in there, like subject headings? \ doesn’t know of one geared towards books
Tim Donahue – Zotero (FF extension) uses a lot of microformats
Are there any CMS embracing microformats? Drupal has modules that will produce content in microformat and maybe wordpress
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Instead of focusing on mobile needs of library users, focusing on mobile needs of librarians, some librarians were more interested in a netbook
Every librarian got an ipod touch or a netbook
Ideas that are needed the most will probably be the most difficult to implement because involve a proprietary ILS
Geeks just waiting to program things, look for collaboration in your community
Create buyin
Petting zoo
Don’t’ be afraid to play
Share your experiences
Questions:
Which IlS are you hoping to build a mobile interface for? IEEE
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All the ways you can read stuff that is not in a book anymore – ipod touch, amazon kindle, has its own wireless network and email address, eink technology, biggest group of kindle owners over the age of 50, price dropped last week to $300
Audiobooks – not just bcds and cassette, but need to deal with drm and compatibility issues, overdrive still doesn’t work with Mac,
Playaway – great for
Kindle plays audible,com files
Over 52% of users get their audiobooks fro a library
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Jason Griffey – I do lots of stuff google me
Ubiquitous computing – computers everywhere, mobile phones, net books, kindles
Devices to devices, no longer devices to server
Metcalfs law
Free – Chris Anderson
Cant compete on cost so much make things easies
Questions & Comments from Office:
What about server costs? – how can you distribute free content when backend stuff costs? Jasson – bit torrent you distributed over a number of people who willing to share cost
When you talk about servers are you talking about Tech or traditional such as a reference librarian might provide.
Why itunes succeeds is an interface issue
People will buy it because its easy and there is a uniform front
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