Today’s Discoveries
- Enormous Twitter application list!
- Library Cloud Atlas offers information on the different options for cloud computing. Glimpsed this in LJ and had to take a look at the full article online.
- The main points of Chris Anderson’s recent speech about things being Free.
Very important to libraries! We must figure out what we are beyond “free” and market that.
“Quality is more and more defined by relevance and not price. Thus, you can’t use price to win market share when everything is free. You have to use product differentiation and relevance.”
“The challenge for companies is to create premium goods and services that they can sell to “free” customers. Companies need to offer people ways to save time, increase their status, or heighten their reputation and convert these ways to cash.”
- KidLitCon 09 this previous weekend had a lawyer from the FTC come and do a presentation on the new FTC blogger guidelines.
You can read summaries of the presentation at Writer Jenn, Chair A Fireplace & a Tea Cozy, and GalleySmith.
The gist is that blogs that review books need not disclose the source of the books, though if they are Amazon Affiliates they do need to disclose that prominently (meaning on each post.)
- Took a library blogging survey. Thanks to Tame the Web for linking to it!
- New Pew Research Center Publication on the graying of the workforce.
“According to one government estimate, 93% of the growth in the U.S. labor force from 2006 to 2016 will be among workers ages 55 and older.”
Thanks to Retiring Guy for the link.
