Inspiration, Innovation & Lessons Learned from Soap Bubbles
1. Innovation & Inspiration & lessons learned from soap bubbles Helene Blowers Digital Strategy Director | Columbus Metropolitan Library NYPL | April 2011 www.flickr.com/photos/rachelpasch/4692691280
18. "What matters here is technical capital, it's social capital. These tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. It isn't when the shiny new tools show up that their uses start permeating; it's when everyone is able to take them for granted.“ - Clay Shirky, Ted Talk 6/09 http://www.flickr.com/photos/milivoj/2166043959/
25. “The iPad opened a new chapter in mobile electronics, with some 15 million sold as of March 2 when Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad 2. According to market researcher IDC, the tablet PC market will grow to 50 million units in sales this year with Apple expected to account for 70 to 80 percent.”
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27. Reality► Mobile builds bridges faster Six in 10 people around the world (60%) now have cellphone subscriptions, signaling that mobile phones are the communications technology of choice, particularly in poor countries. – UN Report, March 2, 2009 Up from 2002 – 15% Internet worldwide: 11%- 2002 >> 23% - 2008 http://www.flickr.com/photos/wink/192265445/
28. While just 1 in 50 Africans had a mobile in the year 2000, now 28 percent have a cellular subscription. – UN Report, March 2, 2009
29. The world has more than three times more mobile cellular subscriptions than fixed telephone lines. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecmorgan/3271187857/
30. # 1 WiFi users in US = Smartphones 60% Wi-Fi connections were made by integrated devices, up from 49 % in the previous quarter (AT&T report, Oct 09) http://www.flickr.com/photos/evelynishere/3461088894/
34. 365.2.72 reading my vampire stories Phot:o carrieoke13 | http://www.flickr.com/photos/carrieoke13/3359310659/
35. 69.5 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in February 2011, up 13 percent from the preceding three-month period.
53. “As many newspapers struggle to stay economically viable, fewer than half of Americans (43%) say that losing their local newspaper would hurt civic life in their community "a lot." Pew Research Study: Stop the Presses (March 12, 2009 ) http://www.flickr.com/photos/gog/21039882/
62. It’s not the death of the book to fear… it’s our dependency on formats as our community (service delivery)value! Change http://www.flickr.com/photos/aprilzosia/2585184283/
73. The Information Age, is an idea that the current age will be characterized by the ability of individuals to transfer information freely, and to have instant access to knowledge that would have been difficult or impossible to find previously. - Wikipedia, 9/09
98. The illiterate of the future are not those who can't read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and re-learn. - Alvin Toffler http://www.flickr.com/photos/ogimogi/2253657555/
100. Helene BlowersDigital Strategy DirectorColumbus Metropolitan Libraryhblowers@columbuslibrary.org My Slides are @www.LibraryBytes.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregwake/2961213279/
Notas do Editor
Find the Future at The New York Public Library is the first game where winning means writing a book. Work together with the other players to win the game, and your book will go into the permanent collection of NYPL -- to be checked out and read by Library users for decades to come! Starting May 21, 2011 anyone, anywhere in the world can play Find the Future -- by visiting the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building in New York City, or by logging into the game site at nypl.org/game. But on the night of May 20, 2011, five hundred daring people will become the first in the world to play Find the Future. They’ll experience the overnight adventure of a lifetime, including the chance to stay at the Library from dusk ‘til dawn -- and explore its treasures as never before. You could be one of the 500 to Write All Night. Here’s how.Just imagine who you are ten years from now. What do you want for the world? What extraordinary goal do you want to achieve? When you have a vivid picture of your future, just fill in the blanks: “In the year 2021, I will become the first person to_________________________.” Based on your creativity, originality and determination in completing Quest #1, we’ll pick 500 people to become the first in the world to play Find the Future -- and to stay overnight at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building in New York City. The overnight game runs from 8 PM to 6 AM... and by sunrise, you’ll be an author. You’ll also have gone where no gamer has gone before... into the underground stacks of the Library, where more than 40 miles of books are waiting to be discovered