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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss a couple of pieces of information that they have recently encountered. The first item is an article from The New Yorker about Clayton Christensen’s explorations into why big businesses fail. The other is the announcement of a new service from [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan take a look at some ideas from libraries that are ahead of the curve in developing new cash flows in tough times. You’ll be amazed at the ideas!
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss (in their own inimitable way) and article that appeared in Time magazine on March 17, 10 Ideas That Will Change the World.
Looking at trends, they agree, makes us look at how we do things and [...]
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For this installment of “George and Joan Thinking Out Loud,” Joan was unable to make the recording session, so George interviews a veteran librarian.
George makes reference to this site and to this site during the podcast.
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss an article that George recently read in the magazine Fast Company, The Great Tech War of 2012. The article predicts an upcoming battle for supremacy among Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook in the markets for smartphones, [...]
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This edition of Thinking Out Loud was originally broadcast as a live webinar on November 16.
Times are tough, unemployment is up, and libraries have responded by expanding services to people who are looking for jobs. But how about addressing the needs of people who are creating jobs? Entrepreneurs, [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan take a look at IT in libraries – more specifically, about the relationship between library culture and IT culture. What do libraries look for when hiring IT people? What sorts of skills are needed? What might be reasonable expectations for libraries [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, Joan starts things off by relating her experience at a recent League of California Cities conference. A panel she moderated got on the topic of underutilized library skills and this topic provides the grist for a lively discussion.
Among the underutilized library [...]
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George & Joan just finished presenting a very thought-provoking webinar on Libraries in a Post-Print World (the archive is available now). There waas more chat than any of us could keep up with during the webinar. We’ve added a link to a transcript of the text chat for those who would like to [...]
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Birds do it, bees do it, and I do it every morning. It’s what brought me to the brand new Hippie Gypsy coffee shop (because I did it online last night). Richard Feynman did it on the beach (and Leland Myrick depicts that perfectly in his and Jim Ottaviani’s new
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