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Nebraska Digital Government Summit
The Nebraska Digital Government Summit is an annual gathering of several hundred Information Technology professionals and other government and business workers that rely heavily on information technology to do their work. The official publicity calls for participants to “gather information, exchange ideas, learn new skills, and find new ways to look at old problems.” This morning, Nebraska Library Commission staff set up an display to demonstrate some of our current solutions: NebraskAccess (find full text information fast), Nebraska Memories (discover our shared Nebraska past), Digital Talking Books (digital books for Nebraskans with a visual, physical, or reading disability), and digital tools for communicating statistical information (public library map mashup).
The Summit is kicking off with a motivational presentation by Mark Allen, 6-time Ironman Champion, sharing his stories and tools that anyone can use to help face any challenge:
*Clarify the work required to achieve success
*Willlingness to adjust how we do our work when necessary for success
*Have absolute committment to completion
Comment below if you are attending this Summit and would like to share your reactions.
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This afternoon I’m attending the panel session, “Web 2.0: Truths, myths, lies”…One of the panelists is a developer of a FaceBook application (HappierHour)to push-market information about Happy Hour and other drink/food specials in specific locations. Another panelist talks about the old rotary phone party-line as the original social networking telecom tool–talk about the potential for security violations!
The book, Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, is a suggested read to help understand the proliferation of online communities and their use in shared decision-making and group problem-solving.
The point was made that Twitter is evolving into a real-time search engine (as well as a real-time group communication tool) reminding us that social networking tools are always changing and developing. When Twitter iscompared to e-mail, one big difference is that there is no backlog of old e-mails and information…history can be lost, unless a deliberate effort is made to back up agency or corporate tweets.