The SLA Toronto Student Group hosted a terrific “Marketing Your Skills” event this evening.
There were a few resources I mentioned that I wanted to make available here.
Positioning Information Professionals for the Future (SLA Alignment Project)
Competencies for Information Professionals of the 21st Century: Revised edition, June 2003 (SLA)
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual [...]
A report out in December from the Economist Intelligence Unit says, “Only 3% of [C-suite executives] describe their companies as ‘experts’ in using business data to drive better decisions, and only 27% agree that their company makes better, faster business decisions than their main competitors.”
According to The intelligent enterprise: Creating a culture of speedy and [...]
Social network graph of #slaname tweet replies October 14, 2009 to December 11, 2009.
The more lines you have, the more @replies to different people you sent. If you don’t appear on the graph, but know that you sent out @replies, it’s because the person you sent your @reply to never sent out an @reply and [...]
The proposal to change our name has encouraged debate and deliberation in all corners of this association. It has also forced us to focus our attention on the results of the Alignment Project, an effort to adapt to a changing world in which we are not alone. This proposal has been 100 years in the [...]
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Using Processing and sample code from www.eskimoblood.de I have created a basic social network graph of replies sent during #sla2009.
The thicker the line the more times you sent an @reply to that
person. The more lines you have, the more @replies to different people
you sent. If you don’t appear on the graph, but know that you [...]
This is fascinating and, I think, very accurate. For those of you who know me well – What do you think?
From Strengthsfinder.com via “Now, discover your strengths” by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton.
“Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are those who understand [...]
As with #sla2008, and again with thanks to the folks at Wordle (still a great tool!), I present you with a cloud based on the tweets from #sla2009. Click the thumbnail to view the larger image.
Compare this year's cloud with 2008 and you may notice a few things:
"SLA", "session", "conference"and "great" are again the more [...]
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Here is my preliminary schedule for SLA2009 in Washington, DC. I will also be at plenty of Open Houses and sessions.
The best way to contact me while I am in DC would be a direct message on Twitter – yankeeincanada.
Fri Jun 12, 2009
9am SLA Board of Directors Executive Session
1pm SLA Board of Directors Open Session
Sat [...]
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SLA 2009 is almost here! Since May 2, 2009 the #sla2009 re-tweeter has been busily sending around tweets as people prepare for conference. Undoubtedly, the volume of tweets will increase as we get closer to conference and will balloon from June 14-17, 2009.
With a bit of help, I have designed a dashboard for the re-tweeter [...]
Once again, a re-tweeter for has been developed for this year's SLA conference based on the Twitter API and John Eckman's code. Many thanks to John and our own Karen Huffman for improving on last year's code!
Starting on Saturday May 2, 2009, the sla2009
Twitter account will become a re-tweeter. What's a re-tweeter you
ask? It's simple. [...]
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