Upcoming Events:

Kim is part of an Industry Roundtable Professional Development event hosted by the Knowledge Media Design Institute on Thursday March 4th, 4-6pm at the University of Toronto iSchool.

Kim is presenting at the Library Technology Conference in St. Paul, MN March 17-18 2010.

Registration for Computers in Libraries 2010 is now open. April 12-14, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA.

Kim is presenting at IASSIST 2010: Social Data and Social Networking: Connecting Social Science Communities Across the Globe in Ithaca, NY June 1-4 2010.

Registration for SLA's Annual Conference is now open. The conference is in New Orleans, June 13-16, 2010.

KMWorld 2010 is in Washington, D.C. this year; November 16-18, 2010. The call for speakers is now open.

The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions

Funny and so true:

A Better Way to Manage Knowledge – John Hagel III and John Seely Brown – Harvard Business Review

A Better Way to Manage Knowledge – John Hagel III and John Seely Brown – Harvard Business Review.

We give a lot of talks and presentations about the ways and places companies and their employees learn the fastest. We call these learning environments creation spaces — places where individuals and teams interact and collaborate within a [...]

Google Social Search Lets You Find Your Friends

From the Official Google Blog:

Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content in many different ways, including blogs, status updates and tweets. This translates to a public social web of content that has special relevance to each person. [...]

Access 2009 Presentations Now Available Online

Posted yesterday on CACUL-L:

The Access 2009 conference in Charlottetown PEI was a huge success (I think some people should be fully recovered by now) and as
promised we recorded all the sessions.

Most of the Access2009pei (also a Twitter and Flickr tag) live video streams are available on the UPEI ePresence site at UPEI – ePresence Presentation [...]

MaRS’ Lisa Torjman on Social Innovation at Ignite Toronto

Lisa Torjman established the social entrepreneurship program at MaRS that includes Social Innovation Generation (SiG@MaRS). This program provides social innovators and entrepreneurs access to resources to turn their ideas into positive outcomes for society.

Lisa participated in Ingnite Toronto in August. Here is the video of her presentation on Social Innovation.

Ignite T.O. Lisa Torjman – Social [...]