From one of my favourite blogs (ilibrarian), I found Prezi the other night. It's a fantastic zooming presentation tool that I think I will have a lot of fun with. I was playing with it a bit yesterday and did a little presentation on designing systems that support information workers.
Like Wordle, there is a good chance this will become another standard toy. I'll have to think about buying the desktop app once I play with it a little more.
September 7, 2010
December 1, 2008
Conference Presentation
Last week I presented at the Public Sector conference about the need to have sound security and access control policies around information management systems. The presentation was well received, which is always a bonus, so I've posted it up on Slideshare if anyone is interested.
November 13, 2008
New Job = No Blog Posts
I started a new job not long after my last post, hence the fact I haven't posted for a while. The new job has been keeping me very busy, but I'm starting to get on top of it now, so new post.
I attended the State Records Authority and GCIO Records Managers' Forum today which was very good. Some really good Case Studies about how agencies have gone about trying to implement EDRM systems and other things they've done to try to get on top of managing digital records.
It's actually re-inspired me about some of this stuff, dealing with some of my new daily tasks had taken the edge of my enthusiasm after the RMAA Conference. So now I have new enthusiasm to take on some of the issues in my new job, which I hope I can keep going, I'll keep you informed - not that I think there are any of you reading this :-)
I attended the State Records Authority and GCIO Records Managers' Forum today which was very good. Some really good Case Studies about how agencies have gone about trying to implement EDRM systems and other things they've done to try to get on top of managing digital records.
It's actually re-inspired me about some of this stuff, dealing with some of my new daily tasks had taken the edge of my enthusiasm after the RMAA Conference. So now I have new enthusiasm to take on some of the issues in my new job, which I hope I can keep going, I'll keep you informed - not that I think there are any of you reading this :-)
September 10, 2008
Web 2.0 and Records Management
I've just spent the last three days at the RMAA Convention, and I'm a little "technologied"-out I must admit. It seems like an illness to place 2.0 after everything at the moment, regardless of whether the discussions had anything to do with the Web 2.0 tools.
But, moving on from this issue, the Records profession does need to come to terms with the new technologies of blogs, wikis, RSS, mashups and the like. There was not a lot of advice about how to do this, what the real implications may be and, most importantly, what we shouldn't have to worry about.
I think that this is really a burgeoning area that needs to be evaluated further, so I'm going to be dedicating a bit of time to brainstorming it here on my blog. Please feel free to pass comment and join in discussion about this.
But, moving on from this issue, the Records profession does need to come to terms with the new technologies of blogs, wikis, RSS, mashups and the like. There was not a lot of advice about how to do this, what the real implications may be and, most importantly, what we shouldn't have to worry about.
I think that this is really a burgeoning area that needs to be evaluated further, so I'm going to be dedicating a bit of time to brainstorming it here on my blog. Please feel free to pass comment and join in discussion about this.
September 6, 2008
New Job
In a week's time I will be starting a new role with the State government. This will be one of the most challenging jobs I've had due to the fact that I will have a team of 30 personnel to manage in records, archives, document management, library services and mail services.
I'm getting very excited about the new role, but a little daunted at the same time. I hope to use some of the new GTD skills that I have been learning over the last six weeks and will be using this blog to capture some of the challenges and solutions that I encounter in the job.
Hopefully the crap that I've had to deal with in my current position over the last few weeks has taught me some valuable lessons that I will carry with me into the new role - unfortunately I currently feel that my lesson is to not trust people, hopefully there's a more valuable one underlying that.
Wish me luck.
I'm getting very excited about the new role, but a little daunted at the same time. I hope to use some of the new GTD skills that I have been learning over the last six weeks and will be using this blog to capture some of the challenges and solutions that I encounter in the job.
Hopefully the crap that I've had to deal with in my current position over the last few weeks has taught me some valuable lessons that I will carry with me into the new role - unfortunately I currently feel that my lesson is to not trust people, hopefully there's a more valuable one underlying that.
Wish me luck.
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