Friday Video: Creating Inspiring Services: Going Boldly Into the Present

Video streaming by Ustream CIL2012 Keynote: Creating Inspiring Services: Going Boldly Into the Present
Michael Peter Edson, Director of Web & New Media Strategy, Office of the CIO, Smithsonian Institution Digital strategy has changed, but has your library gotten the message? Ten years ago, digital strategy was mostly about peering far over the horizon to predict a hazy, distant future. But the future we saw then—a world of cheap ubiquitous technology, crowdsourcing, social networks, the cloud, and powerful mobile computing—has become the reality of the present. In this inspiring presentation, Michael Edson, the Smithsonian Institution’s Director of Web and New Media Strategy, will talk about how libraries of all types can adjust their planning and perspective to benefit—not from better vision of the future—but from a better understanding of what can be accomplished today.