Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category
Libraries are Miscellaneous
Posted by: greebie on: November 12, 2009
With a wide range of ‘things’ happening in and around libraryland, including Library 101, Stephen Abram’s paper on open source (pdf), Mark Albertson’s opinion piece on the changing purpose of libraries, and Laurel Tarulli’s recognition that not everyone fully understands what it is that librarians do. It all leads me to think about the ongoing [...]
Do The Math – Why Quantitative Measures Are Important
Posted by: greebie on: July 5, 2009
I did a demonstration similar to this at the Canadian Association of Law Libraries conference in May. It’s just a neat little trick to demonstrate why “Doing the Math” is important when you are measuring success.
Print Media in the Toilet
Posted by: greebie on: April 15, 2009
Today’s local paper had a toilet bowl on the cover. A toilet bowl. Yes, I know the article was about how the new Sewage Treatment plant in Halifax is done broke and won’t be fixed for a while. But guess what? We didn’t have a Sewage Treatment plant attached to the [...]
Speaking Engagements Galore!
Posted by: greebie on: March 24, 2009
Over the next few months, I will be doing a little bit of presenting at various conferences and events. Here is the list:
Wednesday April 1st, at Computers in Libraries Conference, Washington D.C.: CM Tools: Drupal, Joomla, & Rumba
Alongside one of my library heroes, John Blyberg, I will be presenting on ideas and features around [...]
Cutting to the Chase – What is the Brand of this Blog?
Posted by: greebie on: January 26, 2009
Branding. Every social media yahoo will use the term, replacing it for just about every word from “style” to “reputation” to “logo” to “colour scheme” or whatever else. It is vague, but every business type needs to pretend they understand the term.
I learned a little about branding while partnering with folks from Revolve.ca. [...]
Podcamps in Libraries
Posted by: greebie on: January 26, 2009
I have always guessed that unconferences and public libraries are a natural fit. Now, after Podcamp Halifax, I am absolutely convinced. If you are a director of a public library, I suggest you drop everything, do a twitter search for “podcamp”, catch the feed in your aggregator and pay attention to who, when and where [...]
Want to Lead an Organization? Stop Blogging.
Posted by: greebie on: December 5, 2008
Yes, the title of this post is intended as tongue-in-cheek, perhaps even pandering to the idea that being contentious will always get attention. But I assure you that it is intentional and based on quite a bit of thought on ferries, buses walking to work, being involved in the community and so-on.
I am learning — [...]
Podcamp Halifax: The Blog
Posted by: greebie on: November 12, 2008
Yes, it is true. Podcamp Halifax has its own blog! Now you can get the information you need from the podcamping source, instead of from a measly old librarian blog.
One conversation we’d like to start having is what do you want your podcamp sessions to look like? This is a good time [...]
What am I doing now?
- RyanDeschamps: @TheCoolestCool If you want to present, I would find yourself on wave with a search for 'with:public podcamp'. Or wait until the wiki is up.
- RyanDeschamps: @ahniwa All PALE compared to Rosemary, Ella, Nat King Cole, etc. 1st evidence - these guys rarely use miasma to hold their pitch.
- RyanDeschamps: @TheCoolestCool An unconference about social media - we had 173 people show up to the last one!
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