Multimedia message
Multimedia message, originally uploaded by KarenChristensen. Seen in milwaukee.
Tim Coates blogs for better libraries
I'm speaking on the Community & Collaboration panel at the Global Information Industry Summit in a couple weeks about how to choose the right social networking tools for whatever it is your company wants to do. That is, choosing the right tool instead of trying to add the whole laundry list, "Blogs, wikis, RSS, and podcasts."
Down and dirty, learning to change a tire
We love learning at Berkshire Publishing and I don't mind getting my hands dirty, but it was a bit humiliating to admit that I didn't know how to change a tire. I had driven out to Southfield, a Berkshire village, with editor Marcy Ross and a visiting colleague, Roger Hanson, to have lunch at a new
Inspiring encyclopedias
There are more than a few people who think I'm mad - or nuts, as we Americans say - but I've always denied it. Until today, when I found myself rolling out Danish pastry at 5.30am as I waited for the kettle to boil for a second pot of tea. I'd got up at 4.00 to
Life is large
A colleague sent me a CD a couple years ago with a title song called, "Life is Large," suggesting that that might be a good tagline for Berkshire Publishing. I still toy with the idea: it does capture something of what we're trying to do. But life has cropped up in another way of late in