SXSW 2015 - When New Businesses Launch at The Public LibraryAlan Weinkrantz
As a public center for learning, research and discovery, how can we advance and find new purposes and missions for the public library?
The San Antonio Public library embarked on a new initiative to create Cafe Commerce – a 10,000 square foot resource and learning center focused making entrepreneurship easier, and to strengthen the support infrastructure for small business owners. In collaboration with Accion Texas, the nation's largest microlender, Cafe Commerce was created and launch in June 2014.
Licensing content and programming from The Kaufman Foundation, as well as creating its own events and tapping into local mentors, Cafe Commerce became a center for new business creation and inspiration.
In this fireside chat, Alan Weinkrantz will interviewed Cafe Commerce President, Peter L. French, on lessons learned, best practices, and how other libraries can create similar resource centers focused on startup and entrepreneurial ecosystems in their community.
The document proposes opening a multi-business complex with a library cafe, fashion cafe, pub, and event space in the SS15 area of Kuala Lumpur. The complex aims to attract customers interested in reading, fashion, socializing, and events. It will have a partnership business structure and projects earning over $62,000 in yearly profit within three years of opening. The document outlines market analysis, competition, pricing, management strategies, costs, and financial projections to support the feasibility of this business concept.
The presentation discusses the national HR standards as a quality framework for high impact people management in business. It provides an overview of the HR standards journey in South Africa, including examples of specific HR standards and the development of HR professional practice standards. The presentation also covers topics like HR auditing, the importance of ethics for HR professionals, and how the standards can support consistency and quality in HR practices.
Beyond co location to convergence: Designing and managing new model public l...Carina Clement
Presented at the IFLA pre-conference in Turin, Italy, August 2009, by Carina Clement, Albury LibraryMuseum and Sue Boaden, Australia Street Company. The presentation provides a defintiion of cultural convergence, examines the benefits and costs using 4 case studies - Puke Ariki in New Zealand, Albury Library Musuem and Kogarak Cultural centre in to illustrate
Knowledge Cafe Masterclass, KM Singapore, August 2009David Gurteen
The document discusses the Gurteen Knowledge Café workshop in Singapore. It provides an overview of the Knowledge Café process, which involves bringing groups together for open conversations to gain a deeper understanding of topics. Key points covered include: the importance of conversation and dialogue in business; how Knowledge Cafés work by posing open-ended questions and encouraging participation; and tips for facilitators such as focusing on understanding rather than control and allowing silence.
May 2010 site visit to our new building. It is built on Environmentally Sustainable Design Principles and opens to the public in August 2010.
The building houses the library, Child Health Clinic, large Community Meeting Rooms and the Peppermint Grove Shire Offices. Features include solar panels, thermal maze, storm water reuse, waterless urinals, solar passive orientation, bio filtering and rainwater tanks. Inside will be a cafe, separate children's storytime room, free wifi, public access computers, four large screens with cable TV and video displays, four spaces for presentations with dataprojectors and screens, quiet study area, adaptive technology for people with disabilities, community history space, sustainability information, community education classes and friendly, knowledgable welcoming staff.
Edu cafe is a cafe that aims to provide food, strong WiFi, a small library, school supplies, and comfy seating and discussion rooms to support students. Unlike other cafes, Edu cafe recognizes that students need these amenities to study effectively and improve their academic performance and social lives. The document suggests that by offering these resources - particularly strong WiFi, comfy seating, and supplies - in a single location, Edu cafe can help students increase their scores from 70 to 100.
SXSW 2015 - When New Businesses Launch at The Public LibraryAlan Weinkrantz
As a public center for learning, research and discovery, how can we advance and find new purposes and missions for the public library?
The San Antonio Public library embarked on a new initiative to create Cafe Commerce – a 10,000 square foot resource and learning center focused making entrepreneurship easier, and to strengthen the support infrastructure for small business owners. In collaboration with Accion Texas, the nation's largest microlender, Cafe Commerce was created and launch in June 2014.
Licensing content and programming from The Kaufman Foundation, as well as creating its own events and tapping into local mentors, Cafe Commerce became a center for new business creation and inspiration.
In this fireside chat, Alan Weinkrantz will interviewed Cafe Commerce President, Peter L. French, on lessons learned, best practices, and how other libraries can create similar resource centers focused on startup and entrepreneurial ecosystems in their community.
The document proposes opening a multi-business complex with a library cafe, fashion cafe, pub, and event space in the SS15 area of Kuala Lumpur. The complex aims to attract customers interested in reading, fashion, socializing, and events. It will have a partnership business structure and projects earning over $62,000 in yearly profit within three years of opening. The document outlines market analysis, competition, pricing, management strategies, costs, and financial projections to support the feasibility of this business concept.
The presentation discusses the national HR standards as a quality framework for high impact people management in business. It provides an overview of the HR standards journey in South Africa, including examples of specific HR standards and the development of HR professional practice standards. The presentation also covers topics like HR auditing, the importance of ethics for HR professionals, and how the standards can support consistency and quality in HR practices.
Beyond co location to convergence: Designing and managing new model public l...Carina Clement
Presented at the IFLA pre-conference in Turin, Italy, August 2009, by Carina Clement, Albury LibraryMuseum and Sue Boaden, Australia Street Company. The presentation provides a defintiion of cultural convergence, examines the benefits and costs using 4 case studies - Puke Ariki in New Zealand, Albury Library Musuem and Kogarak Cultural centre in to illustrate
Knowledge Cafe Masterclass, KM Singapore, August 2009David Gurteen
The document discusses the Gurteen Knowledge Café workshop in Singapore. It provides an overview of the Knowledge Café process, which involves bringing groups together for open conversations to gain a deeper understanding of topics. Key points covered include: the importance of conversation and dialogue in business; how Knowledge Cafés work by posing open-ended questions and encouraging participation; and tips for facilitators such as focusing on understanding rather than control and allowing silence.
May 2010 site visit to our new building. It is built on Environmentally Sustainable Design Principles and opens to the public in August 2010.
The building houses the library, Child Health Clinic, large Community Meeting Rooms and the Peppermint Grove Shire Offices. Features include solar panels, thermal maze, storm water reuse, waterless urinals, solar passive orientation, bio filtering and rainwater tanks. Inside will be a cafe, separate children's storytime room, free wifi, public access computers, four large screens with cable TV and video displays, four spaces for presentations with dataprojectors and screens, quiet study area, adaptive technology for people with disabilities, community history space, sustainability information, community education classes and friendly, knowledgable welcoming staff.
Edu cafe is a cafe that aims to provide food, strong WiFi, a small library, school supplies, and comfy seating and discussion rooms to support students. Unlike other cafes, Edu cafe recognizes that students need these amenities to study effectively and improve their academic performance and social lives. The document suggests that by offering these resources - particularly strong WiFi, comfy seating, and supplies - in a single location, Edu cafe can help students increase their scores from 70 to 100.
This document recommends popular fashion items for Spring/Summer 2015 including updated black pieces, sheer white lace items or pop-up rose color lace, new crisp white lace pieces that represent feminity, and a glacier blue dress or top that can be worn from day to night.
BCI Eurobib is the world's leading library furniture manufacturer. They are the indisputable leader when it comes down to modern library furnishings. The catalog here is brief look at the wide variety of library furniture that may be used in library settings from the public library environment to the university library building. Catalog can also be found at www.bcieurobib.com
EarthLED DirectLED Flood Light system is a complete solution to replace high powered outdoor flood light applications. With a full suite of distribution and mounting options, the DirectLED Flood light system allows you to place bright, efficient, LED light anywhere.
How can the design/architecture community better engage tech companies? NBBJ looks into the question and provides answers in a presentation at CoreNet New York City.
This document profiles 14 library projects from around the world. It summarizes each project in 1-3 sentences, highlighting key details like the location, architect, and design features. The projects showcase the company's work in creating innovative, functional solutions for modern libraries. Photos accompany each summary, showing the interior designs which utilize various shelving and lighting products to create inspiring learning environments.
The document provides an overview of the design process and rationale for the Heartbreak Café mobile application. It begins with a competitive analysis of existing breakup apps and their features. It then discusses the needs analysis conducted through analyzing tweets with relevant hashtags and interviews with friends who had gone through breakups. Common needs identified were having support, being able to vent, self-care, and staying active. The design rationale section outlines the main features of the first version of Heartbreak Café app, which include a personalized recovery plan, journal, advice, and finding a coach. The app is intended to provide a personalized and supportive environment for users to heal from a breakup.
The document promotes upcoming events at the Readers' Café, including a Mad Hatter tea party, a quiz about which literary character one would like to share a meal with and the results being published, and encouraging followers on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr to get updates on books and eBooks and participate in an upcoming tweet chat with the hashtag #WOTSVAN12.
Plagiarism to do or not to do that is the question le1hk
The document discusses plagiarism, defining it as stealing from one author, while researching involves stealing from many authors. It notes some common causes of plagiarism include ignorance, lack of skills, time pressures, and grade pressures. The document explores shared responsibilities in preventing plagiarism and its ripple effects. It provides several recommended readings and citations on plagiarism.
Students effectively obtaining, organising and sharing information from the World Wide Web.
This presentation looks at strategies and tools schools can apply to support students in getting information from the Internet, using it effectively, and becoming good digital citizens.
This document recommends popular fashion items for Spring/Summer 2015 including updated black pieces, sheer white lace items or pop-up rose color lace, new crisp white lace pieces that represent feminity, and a glacier blue dress or top that can be worn from day to night.
BCI Eurobib is the world's leading library furniture manufacturer. They are the indisputable leader when it comes down to modern library furnishings. The catalog here is brief look at the wide variety of library furniture that may be used in library settings from the public library environment to the university library building. Catalog can also be found at www.bcieurobib.com
EarthLED DirectLED Flood Light system is a complete solution to replace high powered outdoor flood light applications. With a full suite of distribution and mounting options, the DirectLED Flood light system allows you to place bright, efficient, LED light anywhere.
How can the design/architecture community better engage tech companies? NBBJ looks into the question and provides answers in a presentation at CoreNet New York City.
This document profiles 14 library projects from around the world. It summarizes each project in 1-3 sentences, highlighting key details like the location, architect, and design features. The projects showcase the company's work in creating innovative, functional solutions for modern libraries. Photos accompany each summary, showing the interior designs which utilize various shelving and lighting products to create inspiring learning environments.
The document provides an overview of the design process and rationale for the Heartbreak Café mobile application. It begins with a competitive analysis of existing breakup apps and their features. It then discusses the needs analysis conducted through analyzing tweets with relevant hashtags and interviews with friends who had gone through breakups. Common needs identified were having support, being able to vent, self-care, and staying active. The design rationale section outlines the main features of the first version of Heartbreak Café app, which include a personalized recovery plan, journal, advice, and finding a coach. The app is intended to provide a personalized and supportive environment for users to heal from a breakup.
The document promotes upcoming events at the Readers' Café, including a Mad Hatter tea party, a quiz about which literary character one would like to share a meal with and the results being published, and encouraging followers on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr to get updates on books and eBooks and participate in an upcoming tweet chat with the hashtag #WOTSVAN12.
Plagiarism to do or not to do that is the question le1hk
The document discusses plagiarism, defining it as stealing from one author, while researching involves stealing from many authors. It notes some common causes of plagiarism include ignorance, lack of skills, time pressures, and grade pressures. The document explores shared responsibilities in preventing plagiarism and its ripple effects. It provides several recommended readings and citations on plagiarism.
Students effectively obtaining, organising and sharing information from the World Wide Web.
This presentation looks at strategies and tools schools can apply to support students in getting information from the Internet, using it effectively, and becoming good digital citizens.
Lindorff petijums: cilveki ar kavetam paradsaistibam
1. Cilvēki ar kavētām parādsaistībām – ekspektācijas, realitāte, risinājumi Ivars Austers, Latvijas Universitātes p rofesors, Ph.D. Reinis Kučers, Lindorff Oy Latvijas filiāles ģenerāldirektors 28.04.2010.
2. Parādnieku problēmsituāciju* risināšanas veidi * Pārliecība, ka iesaistīto pušu intereses atšķiras un, ka abu pušu centieni vienlaikus nav īstenojami Attēls: http://images.google.lv/imgres?imgurl=http://www.skillsconverged.com/Portals/5/CourseMaterial/Conflict_pointing.jpg
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5. KĀDI ir cilvēki ar kavētām parādsaistībām? SADARBOTIES GATAVAIS KARLSONS NABAGA PELNRUŠĶĪTE AGRESĪVAIS STRAUSS Attēli: http://www.toontrivia.ru/2008/03 , http://www.pasakas.net/pasakas/latviesu-pasakas/latviesu_tautas_pasakas/p/pelnruskite/ , http://rudysbeat.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/my-garden-gnome-is-better-than-your-garden-gnome/ , http://www.khanya.co.za/blogs/index.php?m=04&y=08&d=10&entry=entry080410-165405
6. Duālais rūpju modelis Rūpes par sevi Otra interešu respektēšana maz maz daudz daudz pakļaušanās izvairīšanās (nedarīšana/bēgšana) problēmas risināšana cīņa
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17. VĒLME IESPĒJA II I Situācija, kurā atrodos Situācija, kurā vēlos nokļūt Kā izkļūt no kavēto parādsaistību apļa? K avētas parādsaistības Risinājuma nemeklēšana
