Sunday, May 25, 2008

Catching Up

I really need to get with the program. It may look like I've lost interest but there are so many things vying for my attention in this highly distracting world that I haven't been keeping up either with the learning or the blogging. I did actually complete week4 on RSS feeds a few weeks ago, but never wrote it up.

RSS feeds are fun, and of course provide even more distractions. I tried to limit myself to ones I was really interested in, and control myself by scanning the titles and making sure I only read the ones I am really interested in. But I do find that one thing leads to another and I can find myself immersed in other stories that I have found on the same page as the one I originally wanted to read. I have to develop more discipline.

I can see how RSS feeds might be useful on our library web page. I'm sure our clients would love to receive feeds of new titles, upcoming events etc.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Change


The Essence of Fundamental Change


From: TraindeTrainer, 3 months ago





This presentation is the personal view of Marina Noordegraaf of the essence of "Presence: An exploration of profound change in people, organizations and society", Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski en Betty Sue Flowers



SlideShare Link

Change

Found this on LibraryBytes and decided it was appropriate for my blog as well. I was already a member of Slideshare although I haven't done anything with it before now, so thought I'd try uploading. It was actually quite easy to upload by clicking on the "Blogger" button under the slideshow but then strange things started happening. The slideshow didn't display so I tried uploading it again - to the sidebar this time, but it cut off half the frame. then I had trouble trying to work out how to delete and start again. One thing I discovered is that Blogger isn't very user friendly and the help pages not very clear, but eventually I worked it out by trial and error, started all over again, and was finally successful.