1. Information Evangelism and Environmental Sustainability: Crossing Boundaries Peter Ellis, MSIM InfoCamp Seattle October 11, 2009

2. On Twitter? Please do live tweet. Tag with #infocamp! React! Twitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM

3. What’s coming? DTDT Information evangelism Sustainability How do we link these? What do we do with that link? Is it really that symbiotic? Twitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM

4. Information Evangelism Promoting information in all its forms, as well as its use, dissemination, manipulation, communication, etc. etc. etc. [Interesting side note: this can also include when not to use information…] Twitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM

5. Environmental Sustainability creating ideal relationships with our surrounding environment that do not detract from the future’s ability to meet their own needs and instead focuses on creating balance and equilibrium between our actions and our environment. 5 Twitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM

6. Well, yes, in that definition, I do mean the natural environment… …but information is an environment…. …and doesn’t information need balance and equilibrium in much the same way? Twitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM

7. Smart design decisions can have tremendous influence and can effect change far faster than the gradual behavior change of individuals. Schweikardt, E. 2009. SUSTAINABLY OURS: User centered is off center. interactions 16, 3 (May. 2009), 12-15. DOI= http://doi.acm.org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/10.1145/1516016.1516019 7 Twitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM

9. We use it to create changes in conditions, constraints, problems

10. We build relationships

11. We birth environmentsTwitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM

13. Promoting low-impact design

14. Demonstrating relationships between systems

15. Redefining the balance between humans and natureTwitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM

17. We use it to create changes in conditions, constraints, problems

18. We build relationships

20. Promoting low-impact design

21. Demonstrating relationships between systems

22. Redefining the balance between humans and natureTwitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM

24. There is no defined start or end to either item – they aren’t quite cyclical

25. No “One Ring to rule them all”Twitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM

27. information acquisition: acquire and evaluate information in the scope of their information needs

28. information organization and storage: structure info to assist utilization

29. development of information products and services: pre-distribution “value add”

30. information distribution

31. information use: create, apply, and react to knowledge gained as a result of being fed that informationTwitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM

32. But this isn’t entirely holistic… each unit is still in isolation. Twitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM

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35. Increase the quality of information disseminated

36. Lower productivity loss due to the first two activities

37. Allow information to be used as a signal for business agilityTwitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM

38. Clearly sustainable from an information standpoint, but how does that feed back to environmental concerns? Twitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM

40. Less waste of human energy (we’re part of the environment too…)

41. “Ripple” of feedbackTwitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM

42. Thoughts? Questions? Criticism? Twitter: peterellis | me@petercellis.com | Peter Ellis, MSIM