One of the things I pride myself on is my ability to get along with people and treat people equally. In fact, I’d hazard a guess that if a range of friends, acquaintances and colleagues were quizzed about my defining characteristic, they’d say “friendly”. My ability to get along with a wide range of people […]
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Posted 30 August 2012
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Lots to think about in this interview and presentation… Some choice quotes… We don’t have to wait to see if social media and crowdsourcing and mobile data in the cloud are going to add up to anything useful. It’s happened. These things are real, now today….We need to change our collective mindset from “let’s be […]
I’ve made a few passing references to the fact that I am no longer the Organization Development Specialist at Regina Public Library. Without going into specifics, there’s a bit of back story to how that all came about but the main thing to know for the purposes of this post is that when my position […]
Within a decade, RPL has gone from plans to close three branches plus two specialized units to opening two new branches within the last year and plans to hopefully build a new Central Library eventually. The latest branch opening was the new Regent Place location which happens to be the one closest to my home […]
It’s been a pretty good news week for me. Week started with news that some long-awaited Assistive Technology I’d ordered at work had finally arrived. At the risk of being a “vague-booker” (er, “vague-blogger”) by hinting at things I can’t actually openly discuss right now, later in the week, I got a couple awesome pieces of […]
I think I may have posted at least one of these links before but here’s a collection of a few cool stories about how iDevices (iPhones & iPads) have out-of-the-box accessibility features and add-on apps that are changing the lives of visually impaired people in majorly significant ways (that second story about how a new […]
I love Quora and could probably post a question a week from their awesome weekly e-digest where they summarize some of the most active posts from the Topics you subscribe to. For example, this week, they had a question and answers on “What is the Most Valuable Lesson You’ve Learned In Your Professional Life?” Here’s […]
Brilliant! (via MetaFilter with a h/t to the colleague who sent it to me at the exact same moment!)
I try to keep this video in mind as I go about my work in the Outreach Unit at Regina Public Library. (Actually, the guy who made this video has a whole series that are worth checking out to get a humourous take on life as a blind person.)
