Day Long Workshop for Maine Libraries in Bangor, Augusta.Waterville, & Portland on May 12-14.

1. At the Heart of Libraries? Encouraging Innovation in Library Land Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLA Bangor, Augusta & Portland, Maine May 12-14, 2010

3. CHANGE

5. The BIG Challenge “ The Internet has now progressed to its infancy” Search, Social Networks, Learning, Commerce

7. Classic Cartoon, but . . .

8. Start here Not the solution!

14. The Adoption Curve

21. LEAD

23. Learning Flow Life Flow Workflow Community Flow Social Flow Age Stage

25. Where are they going? Where did they come from?

26. Discovery

27. Discovery & Ideas

28. A Challenge to Leadership

42. Diabetes Online Yes, Stephen did just say Lizard Spit

43. Kids

46. The Scary re-wiring of the Millennials and post-Millennials

48. Eye Movement Changes

49. Usability The A frame adopted from newspaper layout is not what works. Eyetools

50. Learning

52. Millennial Characteristics Credit: Richard Sweeney, NJIT Entrepreneurial Patriotic Inclusive Multi-taskers Achievement Oriented Graphical Family Oriented Healthy Lifestyle More Liberal and more conservative Direct Confident Independent Experiential Gamers Nomadic Collaborative High Expectations Civic Minded Adaptive / Flexible Balanced Lives Format Agnostic More Choices Internet Natives Optimistic / Positive Respect Intelligence More Diverse More Friends Principled / Values

54. The Engagement Ladder Read/View Argue/Defend Present/Teach Stimulate/Live Act on/ Discuss Content Source Situation Dr. Thomas Davenport

61. Search

65. Will we find our voice? Bing Google Facebook Social Media (Twitter) Libraries

66. Next up: Geo-IP

67. Play

68. It is about play

69. Play

71. Teamwork

72. Mobile

79. Are you ready for a 21 st Century book experience?

85. What about censorship? Freedom of expression? Freedom…. In general

91. Piano

92. content

93. Get your head out of the book

95. Dedicated eBook Readers

104. Are you ready for boundaryless, containerless content?

105. Is the traditional book or text book now a hollow experience?

106. Are we ready for the post book world? http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=book+sculpture&page=44

114. What will the new text and reading experience be for books, news, scholarship and magazines? Can we assemble them like IKEA? Or on the fly?

115. Can we do better than GM did in adapting to change? Does the IKEA Strategy work for GM. End User - Assemble it yourself!

116. Newspapers: Assemble them yourself. Re-imagine the book, the textbook, the video, the coursepack, and the experience.

117. social

120. Magazine Content Goes Social

121. News Content Goes Social

122. Geo-Social 4Sq/Gowalla

124. Apple/Amazon

126. Community

127. Conversations

128. Relationships

129. Community Networks

130. Life

131. Connection

132. Personalization

133. Personalization

134. Personalization

135. I am unique. Understand me. It’s personal.

136. Don’t limit me! Who are you to limit me?

137. The Next 17 Slides “ Detail that can be reviewed later online”

139. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nessman/2590572476/

140. http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/2735401175/

142. The Sharing Economy

144. Get Good at The Cloud

146. Public Library Strategies

147. Luck / Opportunity

148. Comfort

149. Simplicity

150. How do you get noticed?

153. Don’t let this ecology scare you.

156. What is the scariest scenario? I have an archaeology background . . .

165. Exercise #1

166. Exercise #2 How are you going to reach out?

167. Exercise #3 What else have you got?

168. Exercise #4

187. Has confirmed your friend request. Gale wants to be your friend, and partner. Not just another vendor.

188. Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLA VP Strategic Partnerships and Markets Gale, Cengage Learning Cel: 416-669-4855 [email_address] http://www.cengage.com Stephen’s Lighthouse Blog http:// stephenslighthouse.com