Critical Path Funding Crisis-access to internet for the poor at risk

Before I had this job I ran the AIDS Library and Critical Path Project at Philadelphia FIGHT.  Critical Path was and is a free internet service provider for the poor and AIDS Activist.  That right, a free ISP.  It’s only dial-up but there really isn’t anything like it in the world. 
Now the funding is at risks.  Part [...]

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Serious Play-a book I hope will inspire me

I read about this book Serious Play.  I want to read it because it is about innovation.  And how the model you create will inspire your work.  I want to really study it.  Like you would study a textbook.  Turns out that isn’t so easy. 
I tried and tried.  I need to work on that skill, [...]

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Librarians and IRBs

I am taking my CITI Training for the IRB at my institution.  I have been a member for the last 2 years. It was a decision taken at a much higher level that there should be a librarian at each campus IRB. The other campuses in the north of the state have multiple IRBs that [...]

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What a job title!

Coordinator of User Experience is a job available from a college in Illinois.  I love the way the title describe a vision of service as experience.  I just read something about how marketing should not talk about what ‘we’ can do for ‘you’ but as what ‘you’ can do.  I interpret that to mean instead of [...]

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One of my (many) goals

My goal is to write at least one post a week.  That forces me to review the literature and process it.  It forces me to open up Google Reader and not let the number of posts overwhelm me.  It forces me to keep thinking about my profession and not spend all my time bogged down in [...]

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