...*clutches her Oscar (r)*....
We had the Emerging Tech Expo. We were expecting about 70-100 staff members to show up - we ended up with 180! (If you build it, they will come, indeed!)
Here's a link to the TExpo blog: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/emergingtexpoblog/
Check out the short video of the event.
My colleague, let's call her "Intrepid Skills Trainer," and I worked on the 2010 workshop schedule yesterday. It will be a busy year. Here is a partial list of what we plan on offering:
I guess I'd better get a move on....
I'm working with a small group on creating an "Emerging Tech Expo" for the UMN Libraries. It is scheduled for November 18th. So many cool things out there to show and talk about. If I could figure out how to enable my comments, I would ask all of you (e.g. all 2 of you? and that includes me), to give suggestions for capturing people's impressions during the event.
Apparently, checking each check box that says "Accept Comments?" is not sufficient.
pfft.
"What do you wanna do?"
"I dunno. What do you wanna do?"
"Doesn't matter. You decide."
"Okay, how about a movie?"
"Naw."
"Oh, I know! Bowling!?"
"No, I'm really not in the mood for that."
"Well, what are you in the mood for?"
"I dunno. Whatever you wanna do, I guess."
I heard a VP here talk about how the university has over 1700 forms that are still printed out and routed in paper copies. I had two of them when I started here almost 2 years ago and I've narrowed that down to 1.
I would like to have that form routed electronically. The sticking point is electronic signatures. One would think we'd have a process like that in place. Every person I've discussed this with says, "Yes! Up to half my kingdom for that ability!" (Okay, that's a paraphrase.)
So I'm searching. I'm sending emails. I'm asking strangers on the street. I know there are commercial software applications that can do this, but I keep on believing an organization of this size has something...something....they must. Right?
