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What Can Organizational Structure do for User-centred Change? Designing an organization is not something that managers should take on without a good deal of thought. Unfortunately, the coverage of organizational design in library management courses is often simplified to a toying around with two organizational dichotomies: flat or hierarchical; centralized or decentralized. The impression you get from such a surface understanding of design is that organizations are like play-doh and can be squished and pulled at will. Organizational Design (OD) is a strategic device. You do it to make your organization more competitive in whatever environment you face.

25+ Tutorials For The Web Minded There is a huge selection of free tutorials on the web for just about everything you can think of. We've put together 25+ sites that should help give you a good start on learning about the web itself and web-related tools you wish you knew more about. General 999Tutorials.com - Features free tutorials on PHP, general web stuff, Google AdSense and more. CommunityMX.com - Over 2,000 tutorials for Flash, Fireworks, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver and more. Good-Tutorials.com - An aggregator for tutorials from around the web for things like CSS, Flash, Photoshop and more.

del.icio.us libraries - September 27, 2008 « mélange This post is continually updated. A number of reasons: I can store and access my favourite websites from any computer;I can share my websites and comments with friends and those who belong to my del.icio.us network;I can discover new websites by browsing other user’s tags (great for research!);I can take advantage of the daily blog posting tool to automatically add new websites to my blog;the ability to display link rolls (my latest bookmarks) and tag clouds to my website;I can syndicate my links via RSS. Lately I’ve been giving some thought to how libraries use del.icio.us. So how can you make your library del.icio.us? A Librarian’s Guide to Creating 2.0 Subject Guides October 1st, 2007 by Ellyssa Kroski The New Web has brought with it some amazing tools for creating online subject guides. These tools offer the addition of multimedia and multi-format elements such as photos, videos, social bookmarks, RSS feeds, and widgets to traditional resource guides, as well as an interactive dimension which makes them particularly 2.0.

Everything you Need to Know about Presentations « Edutainment No matter if you are a student, an artist, or a business man, your presentation skills will be one the most valuable ones. Your ability to make people ‘buy’ your ideas and to be able to convince them that either that the work you’ve done is excellent, or that your artwork, or business plan is an excellent opportunity for investment, is crucial. In the good sense, “selling oneself” is one of the paths to success in many facets of life, not just business.

Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English It's just too much. Did you know that there are over 15 billion web pages? To make sense of it all, we need to pluck out the best pages and save them for later. We have choices. We could bookmark or add to favorites in our web browser. Nah, it quickly becomes messy. A Quick Guide to Gaming in Libraries Gaming in libraries is a very hot topic this year. We are seeing gaming presentations at library conferences such as ALA Annual and Computers in Libraries, as well as entire symposiums dedicated to the theme, articles are appearing in major papers such as the Chicago Tribune, and libraries are starting to report on their successes. Here’s a quick guide to some of the resources available related to the gaming in libraries meme. If you know of any others, please share them in the comments!

A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff With all due respect to Kevin Smith, the web is no longer only for complaining about movies. In fact, there are a large number of very helpful sites that teach you how to do things. These are do-it-yourself sites, but we're not talking about building a deck or baking a cake -- the web is full of more general interest sites that give quality instruction on all sorts of fun and useful projects. Including, sometimes, how to build a deck or bake a cake. Hottest Facebook Groups for Librarians There are thousands of interest groups within Facebook’s social nexus, each with a discussion board, area for posting recent news, photos, videos, and bookmarks, as well as a group wall on which members can leave passing comments. And within that collection of groups, several hundred are relevant to the LIS field. Here are some of the most popular groups of interest to librarians.

Horizon Project Login or Create New Account Member Spotlights RIT Launches Nation’s First Minor in Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture Partner News NMC Partners with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative iTUNES U Library 2.0 Can’t afford $895+ to attend expensive seminars about Library2.0? Me neither. Here then, is a quickie definition of Library2.0 and a few resources for further reading. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL) Volume 3 - Issue 4/5 - 2007 This site uses some unobtrusive cookies to store information on your computer. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. We use cookies to store sessions in order to provide an interactive and personal experience to our website users. We do not use cookies to serve adverts or other promotional materials. We also log your domain and IP address automatically when you visit our site; however, this information does not identify you as an individual, but only the computer that you are using to view the site and your approximate geographic location. We use cookies for a number of reasons, including the following:

Digital media and learning « HeyJude The MacArthur Foundation launched its five-year, $50 million digital media and learning initiative in 2006 to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. Just how does growing up with these tools affect young peoples sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment and think systematically? Since then we’ve seen a number of initiatives emerge from this funding. I like to use the video threebillion fact’n’stats to teachers. We all crave stats ‘n facts about what is happening; research and information about youth, digital media developments, gaming and more.

Tarina - Teemu Arina’s blog on networked learning, knowlege and collaboration in organizations » Blog Archive » Cultural issues in implemention of social technologies A few moments ago I delivered my presentation entitled “Culture Matters: The cultural requirements for Web 2.0 powered innovation, networking, and collaboration” at Accenture Innovation Forum here in London. I had plenty of time to research, create and cook up new ideas, so the slideshow is almost completely new compared to my earlier work, but I couldn’t resist to put in a few of my favourites. I also created a 2×2 matrix to explain my strategy for releasing my presentation recordings.