Presentation to SLA Eastern Canada Chapter on May 7th, 2010 about tech, economic and social trends in the information world.

1. Future ready : Big Trends to Watch that Will Rock Your World Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLA Gale Cengage Learning SLA Eastern Canada Chapter, Montreal, PQ May 7, 2010

3. CHANGE

4. The BIG Challenge “ The Internet has now progressed to its infancy” Search, Social Networks, Learning, Commerce

9. The Adoption Curve

12. LEAD

14. Discovery

15. Discovery & Ideas

16. A Challenge to Leadership

30. Diabetes Online Yes, Stephen did just say Lizard Spit

31. Kids

34. The Scary re-wiring of the Millennials and post-Millennials

36. Eye Movement Changes

37. Usability The A frame adopted from newspaper layout is not what works. Eyetools

38. Learning

40. Millennial Characteristics Credit: Richard Sweeney, NJIT Entrepreneurial Patriotic Inclusive Multi-taskers Achievement Oriented Graphical Family Oriented Healthy Lifestyle More Liberal and more conservative Direct Confident Independent Experiential Gamers Nomadic Collaborative High Expectations Civic Minded Adaptive / Flexible Balanced Lives Format Agnostic More Choices Internet Natives Optimistic / Positive Respect Intelligence More Diverse More Friends Principled / Values

41. The Engagement Ladder Read/View Argue/Defend Present/Teach Stimulate/Live Act on/ Discuss Content Source Situation Dr. Thomas Davenport

47. Search

51. Will we find our voice? Bing Google Facebook Social Media (Twitter) Libraries

52. Next up: Geo-IP

53. Play

54. It is about play

55. Play

57. Teamwork

58. Mobile

64. Are you ready for a 21 st Century book experience?

66. What about censorship? Freedom of expression? Freedom…. In general

71. content

72. Get your head out of the book

74. Dedicated eBook Readers

79. Are you ready for boundaryless, containerless content?

80. Is the traditional book or text book now a hollow experience?

81. Are we ready for the post book world? http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=book+sculpture&page=44

89. What will the new text and reading experience be for books, news, scholarship and magazines? Can we assemble them like IKEA? Or on the fly?

90. Can we do better than GM did in adapting to change? Does the IKEA Strategy work for GM. End User - Assemble it yourself!

91. Newspapers: Assemble them yourself. Re-imagine the book, the textbook, the video, the coursepack, and the experience.

92. social

93. Magazine Content Goes Social

94. News Content Goes Social

95. Geo-Social 4Sq/Gowalla

96. Apple/Amazon

97. Community

98. Conversations

99. Relationships

100. Community Networks

101. Life

102. Connection

103. Personalization

104. Personalization

105. Personalization

106. I am unique. Understand me. It’s personal.

107. Don’t limit me! Who are you to limit me?

108. The Next 17 Slides “ Detail that can be reviewed later online”

110. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nessman/2590572476/

111. http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/2735401175/

113. The Sharing Economy

115. Get Good at The Cloud

117. Luck / Opportunity

118. Comfort

119. Simplicity

120. How do you get noticed?

123. Don’t let this ecology scare you.

126. What is the scariest scenario? I have an archaeology background . . .

131. Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLA VP Strategic Partnerships and Markets Gale, Cengage Learning Cel: 416-669-4855 [email_address] http://www.cengage.com Stephen’s Lighthouse Blog http:// stephenslighthouse.com