Finding the Time

Clay Shirkey is a writer, consultant, and teacher on new media and the Internet and an adjunct professor at New York University. His book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations was widely reviewed and highly regarded.

His post Gin, Television, and Social Surplus summarizes the two part speech below. All three are worth watching/reading.

Part 1 video

Part 2 video

Blog Posts On Finding Time

• A slide presentation (slides only) from First Person Narrative, an information professional with a background in law and health libraries.
• David Lee King from Topeka and a well-known blogger/speaker on Library 2.0 offers his tips.
• Librarian By Day, a Missouri librarian, offers some hints on how to find the time.
• There is a discussion forum on the 23 Things On a Stick Ning about finding the time, too.
• These two posts are connected: 

• • Museum people comment on how much time it takes for Web 2.0.
  • ReadWriteWeb responds to that post and spark a discussion in the comments. 

Do It Yourself Learning 

• Information Wants to Be Free offers some thoughts on independent learning.
• Seven and 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners 
• A SlideShare presentation on Learning to Learn--this is from an Egyptian company that offers courses on learning to learn that sound interesting if you are ever in Cairo!

Creating a Web 2.0 Library 

•   Ten Tech Trends for Librarians 2007 Michael Stephens offers his views on the trends of ’07—how did he do?
• “Gueri lla rules for Web 2.0”  Joyce Valenza offer her hints on implementing a Web 2.0 library–including “Don’t make the beds.”
• Creating a Web 2.0 Library SirsiDynix webinar.
• Future of Libraries Conference: Social Software in the Library--MySpace, Wikis, IM, Blogs, and Flickr
•  Education Institute Webcast: Planning and Implementing Library 2.0
• Online Cool On a Budget
• Social Software Showcase 2008 from BIG WIG
•  10 Ways to Make Your Library Great in 2008 WebJunction Webinar
• Context is King: Lessons from Online Communities is an interesting Slideshare set from a social media pioneer.

If you haven't watched any of Michael Wesch's YouTube videos on the Internet and information literacy, it is worth your time. His latest is An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube. Others are here.

If you really want to go deeper, here are

100 Free Library 2.0 Tutorials and Webinars. 

And one last article:

What a relief!