SLA2005 - live, semi-awake blogging of opening session - Monday 9:30 AM

I will be doing raw blogging here and summaries on the main SLA blog.

... session starts in 15 minutes ...

... some Toronto promo video ...

"over 4000 participants are here, including over 600 first-timers"

... promo video continues... you know, we're already in Toronto, you don't have to convince us to come here...

freaky purple lightshow

we're in a large, wide conference room packed with people

Chair of Conference Planning Committee

Mayor has proclaimed June 3-5 (?) to be Special Librarians Week in Toronto.

President of SLA
"we will, we will rock you"

Exhibit Hall more than 260 exhibitors, more than 400 booths.

Click University is coming.  (SLA online training.)

Bill Buxton keynote tomorrow.

President's Showcase Dan Ping June 7 11:30 AM room 104c

Gary Hamel closing June 8 @ 9:30 AM

some LexisNexis person is introducing...

Don Tapscott opening keynote...

story about working at Bell-Northern Research (BNR)
1978
Gordon Thompson genius inspiration, trying to explain to Bell Canada how the telephone networks would become digital, a transformation
"the trouble with you guys is you think you're in the telephone business"

Tapscott talking to Canadian Librarian Association (first keynote, years ago)
"trouble with librarians is you think you're in the library business"

"you're in the information, content, collaboration business"

"you're in the transparency business"

Tapscott's latest book - The Naked Corporation

transparency is about providing unprecedented access to information about your organization to everyone internal and external

transparency - access by stakeholders to pertinent information

Conclusions:
- if you're going to be naked, fitness is no longer an option
- you need to have integrity as part of your corporate DNA, otherwise people will find out
- transparency is something to be embraced, enables many wonderful things
- "undress for success"

Implications for librarians:

1. Part of transparency movement
2. You're part of your company's new opportunity to communicate

Drivers of Transparency:
- Technological
- Socio-Political
- Economic
- Demographic

web, blogs, wikis - new tools for access to info

"The Internet is becoming the Hypernet - pervasive, ubiquitous, mobile computing"

1. Technology

The Hypernet: Devices
gadget talk

the popular Treo 650 show and tell

the usual (Ken Nickerson) "everything that has electral power has an IP address, everything talks to everything"

the ridiculous LG Internet Fridge

Dexit digital cash (RF)
cash is opaque

shirts with chips in the collar

sounds like a nightmare to me

The Hypernet: Bandwidth

Explosion in Bandwidth
hello OC3, OC48...

Hypernet: Wireless
and wireless

NakedWireless.ca (incorrect URL, or site is down)
RFID ?
WiMax

Hypernet: Integration
Hypernet: Services
XML, SOAP...

The Grid

Hypernet: Virtualization

2. Economic

The New Competitive Space

first: giant integrated Industrial Age Corp, because costs of transactions, search, coordination too high

then: Extended Enterprise - start to focus on expertise, and collaborate

finally: Business Webs

Offshoring

this is driving transparency
you need to be open with all of these business web partners just for the model to work

3. Demographic

Growing Up Digital

Boom, Bust and Echo

The N-Generation

"the first generation to be bathed in bits"

time on the net is mainly taken away from television

when they're watching TV, it's on the background, they're on the computer and doing other things

kids know more about new tech than their parents

Discussion of N-Gen in the Workforce, as Consumers

4. Socio-Political

Global interdependence

rise of the Civil foundation

Science and the knowable

The Corporate Trust Crisis

However, there are many Obstacles to Transparency.

Planning for Transparency: most companies don't have a strategy or plan.

research: Knowledge Management as we know it has not been very successful
maybe the whole metaphor is wrong: putting knowledge into containers

"maybe we should start to think about content collaboration tools" instead

TakingITGlobal

running out of time

Transparent Corporate Values
- Honesty
- Consideration
- Accountability
- Openness