My initiative for SLA for 2011, is to encourage members to become Future Ready, that is to adopt an attitude of being more adaptable, flexible, and confident in utilizing our skills in the new knowledge economy. One activity we've launched around Future Ready is the community blog FutureReady365, which is focused on sharing knowledge, ideas, and insights on how we are ready for the future.
Future Ready365 is:
A way for SLA members and others to use social media to generate value for ourselves.
365 solutions answering the question “How are you Future Ready?”
A collaborative tool enables us to see solutions to being future ready, because as the saying goes “None of us is as smart as all of us.”
A way to envision a dynamic future!
A chance for us to enlist a few "celebrities" to weigh in with their perspective on the info industry. We've received posts from Guy Kawasaki and Kevin Carroll and plan to get more soon.
The plan is to post one perspective every single solitary day of 2011. It's big audacious goal.
Here is how you might want to view future ready as a structure that has our library/info science background as a foundation with four pillars: 1) Collaboration to accelerate the availability of useful information 2) An adaptable skill set that anticipates and responds to the evolving marketplace 3) Alignment with the language and values of the community you serve and 4) Building a community that connects stakeholders in mutually beneficial relationships That take us to the apex which is future ready
