Here is another article about the penetration of blogs in business http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10466.
I think we are on the cutting edge of something that will be commonplace very soon.
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
The Changing Role of the Librarian
In this article http://crm.ittoolbox.com/news/dispnews.asp?i=125209&t=99 the changing role of the librarian is highlighted.
This just proves some of the things I found out when doing my research about going back to librarian school. The days of "Marian, Madame Librarian" with her hair in a bun and a pencil through it are long gone.
From now on, librarians will have to be content managers, contract administrators and be able to stay abreast with all manner of technology.
This just proves some of the things I found out when doing my research about going back to librarian school. The days of "Marian, Madame Librarian" with her hair in a bun and a pencil through it are long gone.
From now on, librarians will have to be content managers, contract administrators and be able to stay abreast with all manner of technology.
Monday, January 10, 2005
Blogging for Business redux
Here is an article that is good for the neophite blogger or those thinking about it.
http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200501/ij_01_10_05a.html
http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200501/ij_01_10_05a.html
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Blogging for Business
I saw this short article http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050103BloggingforBusinessanOverview.html.
It's short but shows how blogging can be a value added activity in business. Those of us who are early adopters should be using our new bully pulpit to get other to try blogging as a value added activity and not just something to do when we have time.
It's short but shows how blogging can be a value added activity in business. Those of us who are early adopters should be using our new bully pulpit to get other to try blogging as a value added activity and not just something to do when we have time.
Inspiring Great Discussions
My friend, Jack Vinson published the following item in his blog (http://www.jackvinson.com/ )
"It isn't only coffee that inspires conversation. It might be anywhere that people are gathered for purposes of open discussion: coffee shops, tea houses, hookah huts, good meals... George Nemeth found an interesting quote on Inspiring great discussions with respect to hookah smoking.
'One of the oldest traditions of the Middle East is the art of hookah smoking. The hookah, also referred to as a narghile or narghila, shisha or sheesha, water-pipe, and hubbly-bubbly, has long inspired great discussions of politics, religion, and the daily happenings. In social gatherings, the passing of the hose is remarkable- a narghile is placed in the center of a group and smokers pass the hose to the next in the circle, all the while exchanging words and sharing ideas in a playful mode...'"
Now, the question for our time is how do we recapture a truly oral tradition like this? With the attention span of the west growing ever shorter and organizations' timelines (vis a vis their vision and mission) becoming shorter, how can we show the value of a truly oral tradition that values history as well as the time it takes to build relationships. In the Middle East, hooka smoking was an important social activities and relationship were build that stood the test of time. What do we have in the west that is comparable?
"It isn't only coffee that inspires conversation. It might be anywhere that people are gathered for purposes of open discussion: coffee shops, tea houses, hookah huts, good meals... George Nemeth found an interesting quote on Inspiring great discussions with respect to hookah smoking.
'One of the oldest traditions of the Middle East is the art of hookah smoking. The hookah, also referred to as a narghile or narghila, shisha or sheesha, water-pipe, and hubbly-bubbly, has long inspired great discussions of politics, religion, and the daily happenings. In social gatherings, the passing of the hose is remarkable- a narghile is placed in the center of a group and smokers pass the hose to the next in the circle, all the while exchanging words and sharing ideas in a playful mode...'"
Now, the question for our time is how do we recapture a truly oral tradition like this? With the attention span of the west growing ever shorter and organizations' timelines (vis a vis their vision and mission) becoming shorter, how can we show the value of a truly oral tradition that values history as well as the time it takes to build relationships. In the Middle East, hooka smoking was an important social activities and relationship were build that stood the test of time. What do we have in the west that is comparable?
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