Monthly Archives: April 2012

All Government Agencies (incl libraries!) need to communicate more and better…

Major Takeaways from the Transforming Local Government conference:

Need for government to have a well developed strategic plan that incorporates the community wants and needs.

The community wants and needs more and more effective and clear communication from government. 

Keynote Speaker: Milo Medin – Vice President of Access Services for Google

Empowering Transformation with Strategic Use of Technology

Prediction of 3 tech tools that can/will be strategically used by government.

  1. Smart phones – 50% of wireless subscribers use smart phones.
  2. Machine to Machine – M2M
  3. The Cloud
    1. It is better storage, make for better, faster, easier, sharing & communication.

Government examples:

  1. Multnomah County
  2. New York Public Library
  3. NOAA

Now if we could just get this e-book thing sorted out!

Transforming Local Government Conference

I am so excited to be presenting at the Transforming Local Government Conference tomorrow. My session is: Marketing to Make a Difference: Effectively Promoting Early Childhood Literacy. Will be discussing Johnson County Library’s 6by6: Ready to Read program. For more info go go to: tlgconference.org.

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