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George and Joan, Thinking Out Loud about Confluences

George Needham and Joan Frye Williams — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:56:25 +0000

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss a couple of pieces of information that they have recently encountered. The first item is an article from The New Yorker about Clayton Christensen’s explorations into why big businesses fail. The other is the announcement of a new service from ProQuest called [...]

George and Joan, Thinking Out Loud about Bosses

George Needham and Joan Frye Williams — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:11:51 +0000

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan talk about bosses. While it’s easy to gripe about bosses, George and Joan take a deeper look and explore the idea that the problem isn’t always just the boss – it can also be the employee and/or the workplace. Are you using your [...]

George and Joan, Thinking Out Loud about Innovative Ideas from Libraries Thinking Way Outside the Box

George Needham and Joan Frye Williams — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:54:24 +0000

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan take a look at some ideas from libraries that are ahead of the curve in developing new cash flows in tough times. You’ll be amazed at the ideas!

George and Joan, Thinking Out Loud about Ideas That Will Change the World

George Needham and Joan Frye Williams — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:27:02 +0000

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss (in their own inimitable way) and article that appeared in Time magazine on March 17, 10 Ideas That Will Change the World.

Looking at trends, they agree, makes us look at how we do things and ask good questions and [...]

George and Joan, Thinking Out Loud with a twist for the new year

George Needham and Joan Frye Williams — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:00:50 +0000

For this installment of “George and Joan Thinking Out Loud,” Joan was unable to make the recording session, so George interviews a veteran librarian.

George makes reference to this site and to this site during the podcast.

George and Joan, Thinking Out Loud about the Great Tech War of 2012

George Needham and Joan Frye Williams — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:21:55 +0000

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss an article that George recently read in the magazine Fast Company, The Great Tech War of 2012. The article predicts an upcoming battle for supremacy among Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook in the markets for smartphones, tablets and more.

What [...]

George and Joan, Thinking Out Loud about Libraries and Entrepreneurs

George Needham and Joan Frye Williams — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:27:27 +0000

This edition of Thinking Out Loud was originally broadcast as a live webinar on November 16.

Times are tough, unemployment is up, and libraries have responded by expanding services to people who are looking for jobs. But how about addressing the needs of people who are creating jobs? Entrepreneurs, especially the “new [...]

George and Joan, Thinking Out Loud about IT and the Five Laws of Library Science

George Needham and Joan Frye Williams — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:43:52 +0000

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan take a look at IT in libraries – more specifically, about the relationship between library culture and IT culture. What do libraries look for when hiring IT people? What sorts of skills are needed? What might be reasonable expectations for libraries to have? [...]

George & Joan, Thinking Out Loud about Underutilized Library Skills

George Needham and Joan Frye Williams — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:47:24 +0000

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, Joan starts things off by relating her experience at a recent League of California Cities conference. A panel she moderated got on the topic of underutilized library skills and this topic provides the grist for a lively discussion.

Among the underutilized library skills that George [...]

Let ‘em Browse

George Needham and Joan Frye Williams — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:14:05 +0000

Birds do it, bees do it, and I do it every morning. It’s what brought me to the brand new Hippie Gypsy coffee shop (because I did it online last night). Richard Feynman did it on the beach (and Leland Myrick depicts that perfectly in his and Jim Ottaviani’s new biography).

Browsing: [...]