I heard my soul singing behind a leaf, plucked the leaf, but then I heard it singing behind a veil. I tore the veil, but then I heard it singing behind a wall. I broke the wall, and I heard my soul singing against me. I built up the wall, mended the curtain, but I [...]
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July 17, 2009
5 Tips for Lifelong Learning
Noticed this last night while paging through a magazine (Success, August 2009), and thought I’d pass it along.
1) Seek out a mentor – look for someone who exemplifies the lifestyle that you admire and wish to emulate and plan to adapt some of his or her strategies for success.
2) Accept constructive criticism – When someone [...]
September 4, 2008
Reading Seattle: The City in Prose, Wide Awake, Chasing Daylight & Chief Seattle
I’ve been reading a few things lately. Two books from Erwin McManus that are great. Wide Awake and Chasing Daylight both are most reads for anyone who wants to pull away the veil and live life as it were intended. Then there is this other book that I happened upon, Reading Seattle: The City in [...]
August 21, 2008
PNLA Presentation: Growing Innovation in Your Library …
As we made our way across the great northwest we stopped off at Post Falls, Idaho to join the Pacific Northwest Library Association’s Conference. I had a great opportunity to talk with 20 or so librarians from throughout the northwest.
Here is the presentation at Slideshare -
Part 1:http://www.slideshare.net/mgullett/pnla-creat-comm-1-presentation/
July 9, 2008
PLCMC’s 2008 Technology Summit: Digital Youth Wired for Action
For three years the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County has held Technology Summits every year in the spring/summer. In fact, the first Tech Summit featured the wonderful insights of Mr. Michael Stephens (www.tametheweb.com), and the emergence of Learning 2.0 (23 Things). PLCMC’s Learning 2.0 and the Tech Summits were the original creations of [...]
April 30, 2008
Learning Opportunities and Conferences to Attend …
In a recent email conversation with colleagues we’ve been kicking around various conferences and learning opportunities out there that we would love to attend. These would be things that are outside of the typical library oriented professional opportunities.
So far we have come up with:
Good Experience Live (GEL) Conference (http://www.gelconference.com/)
Consumer Electronics Show (http://www.cesweb.org/)
South by Southwest (http://www.sxsw.com/)
YPulse’s [...]
April 12, 2008
Experimental Game Lab Talk … Public Libraries Association Conference
Wow! It has been a busy month. I just returned from Computers in Libraries and after a major wrestling match with Slideshare.net I’ve at least posted slides from one of my PLA talks. I will try to get the other posted in an abbreviated form soon.
Here are slides that I created for the PLA Table [...]
October 29, 2007
Infopeople Workshops … Web 2.0: Using Social Software with Teens
In that later part of 2007 and early 2008, I had the pleasure of leading the Web 2.0: Using Social Software with Teens workshops for Infopeople in CA. It was a real learning experience for me. Facilitating the full day workshop, visiting with and discussing new programming ideas with library staff who work with teens [...]
October 11, 2007
KRL2pt0
I had the pleasure of spending this past Monday with the Kitsap Regional Library to assist in their Learning 2.0 kick off. Take a look at what they have started and give them a shoot out of encouragement at: KRL2pt0.
