Archive for April, 2004
Outsourcing and Chinese trade infancy
It turns out outsourcing doesn’t always work the way they thought it would. Even Indian executives running companies (mainly technology/software) in the U.S. are finding that many core functions are still better performed by U.S. workers. Eduardo Porter writes in the NY Times today that one company tells it like this: cost savings for programming […]
Blog for library business
Maybe your image of a library is a staid brick-n-mortar edifice populated with millions of dusty tomes and lots of bespectacled bookworms called librarians. At least that’s the way cartoons always portray them…
I was honored recently to be asked to facilitate for an enthusiastic group of library professionals my workshop called “Blogging for Professionals.” Terry […]Dream and do
Three different amazing new telephones are profiled in the Continental magazine this month. One has a foldout keyboard you can type email on and all the functions of a PDA. Another lets you record and capture video, forgodssakes. Remember–Q, was it?–the guy who gave James Bond all the incredible gadgets? Used to be that if […]