Comments for Reid All About It http://deirdrereid.com Raleigh Freelance Writer - Deirdre Reid Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:36:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Hack Your Association by Friday Top 5 | Spark Consulting http://deirdrereid.com/2013/04/09/hack-your-association/#comment-8097 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:36:58 +0000 http://deirdrereid.com/?p=2494#comment-8097 [...] other things, in a self-organized conference).  Deirdre Reid also wrote a great post about the Maker Society session. And the Washington Post had a piece this week about a Fab Lab in my neighborhood. I smell a [...]

]]> Comment on Hack Your Association by Reads of the Week: April 12, 2013 | Reid All About It http://deirdrereid.com/2013/04/09/hack-your-association/#comment-7983 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:41:19 +0000 http://deirdrereid.com/?p=2494#comment-7983 [...] recent post, Hack Your Association, riffs off one of the sessions I attended, The Maker [...]

]]> Comment on Hack Your Association by deirdrereid http://deirdrereid.com/2013/04/09/hack-your-association/#comment-7979 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:17:53 +0000 http://deirdrereid.com/?p=2494#comment-7979 Exactly, Jay! Hack your own culture, no need to wait, everyone is creative, they just need to give each other permission to look at things with new perspectives, experiment, fail, learn and try again. Easier said than done, I know, but that cultural shift will be so powerful, it’s worth the initial discomfort.

Ooh, Jenny, what a cool project that would be, but, yeah, you’d probably need a paid sabbatical to make that come to life. Thank you both for sharing this post!

]]> Comment on Hack Your Association by Jenny Levine http://deirdrereid.com/2013/04/09/hack-your-association/#comment-7977 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:03:47 +0000 http://deirdrereid.com/?p=2494#comment-7977 Jay, that’s exactly what I try to do! IDEO is known for helping companies evolve products/services to the point where their competitors would have beaten them, and that’s how I feel about both librarianship and ALA.

A few years ago my partner and I wanted to hold a participatory conference called “Put libraries out of business” by figuring out how libraries could adapt and become the “next thing.” Unfortunately, we still haven’t found a way (or realistically, the time) to pull off that one.

Thanks for the great post, Deirdre!

]]> Comment on Hack Your Association by Jay S. Daughtry http://deirdrereid.com/2013/04/09/hack-your-association/#comment-7976 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:33:23 +0000 http://deirdrereid.com/?p=2494#comment-7976 One thought I’ve had since this session and digitalNow in general: If you were charged with building an organization to beat your current organization, how would you do it? Why not take that approach but from within to strengthen rather than wait for defeat from an outside disruptor?

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