From blawlor at nfais.org Wed Oct 5 15:14:22 2011 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:14:22 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS webinar Series Email and Social Media Marketing Message-ID: <030901cc8392$fd55bc20$f8013460$@org> NFAIS Webinar Series: Successful Strategies for Email and Social Media Marketing. Register for All Three and Receive a 25% Discount. With Email marketing becoming ubiquitous, the competition for capturing a reader's eye, and interest, has escalated. The need to utilize the most effective techniques has never been greater, especially in these difficult economic times. As a result, the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIST) is offering a webinar series that will focus on improving and evaluating e-mail marketing techniques in addition to building an effective social media plan. The webinars will be hosted by FulcrumTech, a premier full-service email-marketing agency based in the Philadelphia area. Email Marketing Part I: Five Secrets to Email Marketing Success will be held on October 19, 2011 from 11:00am - 12:30pm, EST. Hosted by Mitch Lapides, President, FulcrumTech, this session, will teach you five specific ways to drive dramatically improve results and return-on-investment (ROI) from your email-marketing campaigns. He will also share important tips about how to best grow a high quality email list that keeps you in compliance with U.S. and European laws and delivers top results. Finally, the session will include a live email optimization - FulcrumTech experts will review several emails submitted by webinar participants and provide feedback on how to improve them. Email Marketing Part II: How to Maximize Your Email Marketing ROI will be held on December 6, 2011 from 11:00am - 12:30pm, EST. Again hosted by Mitch Lapides, this session will teach you how to measure and quantify the current state of your email program and then determine which combination of changes will have the biggest impact on your return-on-investment. Mitch will also offer numerous tricks for improving open, click-through, and conversion rates to realize the improvements you are looking for. You'll walk away with more than 17 tips, plus access to a proven ROI model that you can use back at the office to determine the best course of action for your specific organization. Building Your Social Media Plan will be held on January 25, 2012, from 11:00am - 12:30pm, EST. Hosted by Cari Sultanik, Director, Interactive Account Management at FulcrumTech, this session will teach you what you need to do before launching a social marketing campaign on Facebook, Twitter and/or YouTube. This will include how to identify your audience, define meaningful objectives, craft a strategy that puts people first, develop success factors by which you will gauge your progress, and then determine the technology you will need to put the pieces together. The session will also touch on the tools you can use to manage your social media program - alone or as part of a marketing team - so that you can still focus on your full-time job. You'll also walk away with a list of resources to help you learn more about social marketing on your own without having to sift through a myriad of articles, blogs and books to find the gems. If you or your staff want to evaluate your email marketing campaigns, justify improvements, and ensure that your social media message is exactly what you want it to be, register for one or all of the webinars today. For a single webinar individual NFAIS members pay $95, Sister Society members pay $105, and non-members pay $115. 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Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 5543 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Thu Oct 13 09:56:30 2011 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (Jill O'Neill) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:56:30 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS Enotes, September 2011 Message-ID: <0AD2FEB52BBA4A678813994EB004D308@DDPXRT91> NFAIS Enotes, September 2011 Written and Compiled by Jill O'Neill You've Unlocked the Rookie Badge: Gamification as a Trending Topic "You've unlocked the Rookie Badge!" This was the happy sign that greeted me when I arrived on the Seriosity blog. Byron Reeves and J. Leighton Read have co-authored the book, Total Engagement (Harvard Business School Press, 2010), and their marketing blog in support of that title awards the first time visitor a badge with encouragement to "earn more mojo." The idea behind such a badge is that the warm fuzzy feeling I get from such public recognition is additional encouragement to buy and read their book. The concept behind this is an old one. Reward desired behavior. You may have noticed in passing back in July of this year an announcement from Google that they were adding badges to their News site. Read a sufficient number of news stories via that portal about a particular subject and the system awards you a medal. I quickly achieved a bronze medal just for reading two or three articles about the announcement, but have yet to achieve silver for subsequent visits (see announcement in Information Week at: . http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/231001919). As the Information Week article indicates, Google's gamification of the site is aimed at persuading users to visit the news site more frequently, to attract their friends to the site (betting that friends will want to compete and earn even more badges to show each other up), and to fuel Google's future activities with even more behavioral data. Behind the techniques and theory of gamification, there is a serious field of research. It is known as game mechanics and the currently accepted definition of game mechanics was established by Ralph Koster in his book, A Theory of Fun for Game Design, (Paraglyph Press, 2004). He defines them as "rule based systems / simulations that facilitate and encourage a user to explore and learn the properties of their possibility space through the use of feedback mechanisms." Put that way, it doesn't sound particularly nefarious. Gamification (or game mechanics) is a field of serious consideration by researchers operating in the field of computer-human interaction (see: http://gamification-research.org/2011/06/chi-2011-paper-gleanings/). The objective is increased engagement in an online environment, modification and/or instillation of behaviors, and stimulation of innovation. In April 2011, Gartner Research published a report that indicated the expectation that by 2015, more than 50% of organizations that manage innovation processes would gamify such processes and more than 70% of the Global 2000 organizations would have at least one gamified application (see: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1629214). More information about how Gartner believes business enterprises should view gamification may be found in their Gamification Primer at http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=1528016. Gamification is currently applied to a truly diverse range of daily environments, from call centers (http://thenextweb.com/la/2011/08/26/how-chilean-born-arcaris-is-bringing-ga mification-to-call-centers/) all the way to newspapers (http://newsonomics.com/the-newsonomics-of-gamification-and-civilization/). The technique can even be employed to educate users about difficult online policy concepts such as privacy (see: http://www.zynga.com/privacy/). In relating it most immediately to this community, one might point to the use of gamification in cracking an AIDS protein puzzle (see: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/09/gamers-help-crack-aids- protein.html). Benign use of gamification is primarily aimed at supporting greater engagement of an individual in the achievement of a greater goal. Picking up on this, Educause published a "7 Things" piece regarding gamification, discussing its use in such high-profile entities as Dartmouth, Pepperdine, and the Rochester Institute of Technology. Gamification in the educational sector, according to Educause, "has the potential to help build connections among members of the academic community, drawing in shy students, supporting collaboration and engendering interest in course content that students might not have otherwise explored." (http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7075.pdf) Dr. Michael Wu, Principal Scientist of Analytics at Lithium Technologies, Inc. (a software metrics provider that supports corporate clients in using gamification for enterprise purposes) has written a brief series expanding on the current definition and application of gamification to business and societal concerns: (1) http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Building-Community-the-Platform/What-is-Ga mification-Really/ba-p/30447 (2) http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Building-Community-the-Platform/The-Gaming -Industry-Gamification-and-Work/ba-p/30451 and (3) http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Building-Community-the-Platform/Gamificati on-beyond-Business-and-Future-Challenges/ba-p/30453 In the first of the above entries, Wu defines gamification as: the use of game attributes to drive game-like player behavior in a non-game context. This definition has three components: 1. "The use of game attributes," which includes game mechanics/dynamics, game design principles, gaming psychology, player journey, game play scripts and storytelling, and/or any other aspects of games 2. "To drive game-like player behavior," such as engagement, interaction, addiction, competition, collaboration, awareness, learning, and/or any other observed player behavior during game play 3. "In a non-game context," which can be anything other than a game (e.g. education, work, health and fitness, community participation, civic engagement, volunteerism, etc.) Wu offered some further interesting insights at the recent Gamification Summit: http://www.slideshare.net/mich8elwu/2011-0915-magic-potion-of-gamification It is important to note, however, that not all researchers believe that gamification is a serious field of study. Georgia Institute of Technology researcher, Ian Bogost, in addressing the Wharton Gaming Symposium was particularly scathing, saying in so many words, "Gamification is Bullshit" (see : http://www.bogost.com/blog/gamification_is_bullshit.shtml). In particular, the comments appended there indicate the broad range of attitudes towards gamification as worthwhile or exploitative. Bogost objects on the grounds that marketing professionals using gamification techniques are trivializing the very serious aspects of social interactive design, online narrative, and artificial intelligence usage to which game mechanics may be applied. Reviewer Sebastian Deterding in critiquing a recent publication from O'Reilly Books offered an even better and well-documented commentary on cheap gamification approaches at http://gamification-research.org/2011/09/a-quick-buck-by-copy-and-paste/. Tim O'Reilly (naturally) countered at https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/TFvQ2FDTKy5?hl=en. Poignantly ironic is the fact that Bogost is primarily known outside of academia as the creator of the Facebook game, Cow Clicker, a game that was intended to satirize the infamous social games on platforms like Facebook, used for gathering data about users and their network (see: http://kotaku.com/5846080/the-life+changing-20-rightward+facing-cow). Clearly, gamification is a double-edged sword. Whether organizations are gathering user data for purposes of commercial exploitation (as in the instance of Facebook's social gaming) or for the purpose of fostering a better user experience, balancing on the sword's blade requires finesse (and a clear sense of the objective). While acknowledging gamification as a trend in 2011, I probably wouldn't have seen it as particularly applicable to NFAIS member organizations, except insofar as it relates to the need for designing more compelling user experiences. I note this quote from a piece that appeared on the Mashable site, "The key to solving the problems of building community engagement is to focus on humans as first priority. Not technology, not buttons, not widgets, Today's community wants to engage around your content and they'll do it on your site when provided with a human experience that truly engages." (see: http://mashable.com/2011/08/19/community-content-publishers/). That same essay closes with the following recommendation: ".have a goal of enabling people to engage in the ways that they want. The content itself should be the hub for web discussion, and not just another spoke on the wheel. These practices will increase the value of your community, your content and your brand." Platform providers want to both attract users to their content as well as foster the engagement that arises from conversations surrounding that content. Where businesses feel it is imperative to know precisely who is commenting and engaging with content, individuals question whether that is truly needful. When the National Geographic Society acquired the community site, ScienceBlogs, and announced that they would no longer host pseudonymous blogs, many departed the platform, noting that they weren't troubled themselves by pseudonyms. "Credibility and authority are not automatically conferred by name, degree or title" wrote Jessica Palmer, a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, "Pseudonymous science bloggers can, and do, acquire reputational authority - but that authority is based on their work, not their names." (see: http://scienceblogs.com/bioephemera/2011/09/anonymity_among_science_blogge.p hp). The community confers authority and value, not the brand or platform. But from the content and platform provider view, value can be enhanced if the community will only cooperate. David Smith of CABI wrote a stellar piece for the Scholarly Kitchen blog entitled It's About Time We Discussed The Business of Identity (see: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/09/27/its-about-time-we-discussed-th e-business-of-identity/). He tied the gathering of user data and the use of screen names and pseudonyms to identity and reputation in the scholarly arena. He envisioned one possible future for use of the data gleaned from the identity disambiguation system, ORCID, if user data were used in the context of formal work. The researchers wake in the morning and pick up their mobile devices. They've already configured it with their ORCID credentials so the device can either supply them upon request, or any read/note/store applications can make use of the same credentials in order to allow them to get on with the business of keeping up with the competition. Speaking of which, there's a competitive intelligence application that keeps an eye on the outputs of competing researchers. Overnight, it has run a series of searches and sorted and categorised the results for them to scan though. It's learned what areas they like to pay most attention to. Some important items have already had various sections of text and imagery highlighted for closer inspection. Some articles and snippets of information are queued for later consumption, others are tagged to be distributed to the researcher's lab workers. David is suggesting that by permitting organizations to leverage our real world (work) identities, our social graphs, and our search history, those organizations (among them, NFAIS member organizations) will provide us with a more intelligent current awareness and filtering of quality content. And, in his view, users are more likely to adopt those services that show a clear benefit of this sort. Our cultural anxiety over who-knows-what about various activities will dissipate, once we've grasped how much better it makes the user experience. Matt Ingram of GigaOm believes that use of gamification techniques may help us to alleviate that cultural anxiety, calming those who insist on maintaining some level of privacy even as organizations gather the data to improve the user experience. He points to the same real name/pseudonym controversy that David does and suggests that social protocols influenced by game mechanics could both encourage desirable user behaviors while allowing users choice in self-identification (see: http://gigaom.com/2011/09/06/can-gamification-help-solve-the-online-anonymit y-problem/. My moment of light came when Ingram referenced the need he had to explain to a younger colleague what he meant. The younger man thought about Ingram's proposal for reputation metrics for a minute and said, "Oh, you mean like leveling up in World of Warcraft?!" Badges for accessing Scopus or JSTOR? Of course not! That said, a closer look at gamification and clear thinking about user mindset and motivation may prompt product development managers to think more deeply about ways of engaging knowledge workers in the modern information environment. We can support interest in authoritative content and foster understanding of credibility more successfully if we examine what is behind the trend of gamification and build on it in creative and innovative ways. 2011 SPONSORS Access Innovations, Inc. Accessible Archives, Inc. American Psychological Association/PsycINFO American Theological Library Association CAS CrossRef Data Conversion Laboratory Defense Technical Information Center Elsevier Getty Research Institute H. W. Wilson Information Today, Inc. International Food Information Services Philosopher's Information Center ProQuest Really Strategies, Inc. TEMIS, Inc. 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Will purchase on demand work for books and journals? Is the subscription model no longer viable - even for scholarly materials? What new business models are emerging, are they successful, and what does the future hold for the subscription model in the distribution of scholarly and scientific information. If you want to learn the answers to these questions, join us on November 10, 2011 when librarians and content providers will gather in Philadelphia, PA to share their perspectives in a one-day workshop. Both onsite and virtual registrations are available at a discount until October 25th. Highlights include: * An overview of the current landscape for content purchasing and licensing and a look at how things are shaping for the future (Dan Tonkery, President & CEO, Content Strategies) * A look at the current status of library budgets based upon the environmental scan undertaken by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and released in June 2011 (Lisa Hinchliffe, Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana) * The perspectives of academic librarians and content providers on the future of the subscription model and the alternative solutions with which they are experimenting. (Betsy Appleton, Electronic Resources Librarian, George Mason University Liraries, Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor on Electronic Strategies, Center for Research Libraries; Linda Beebe, Senior Director, American Psychological Association/PsycINFO; M. Scott Dineen, Deputy Senior Director, Publications, Optical Society of America; Amy Pedersen, Vice President of Channel Management and Marketing Operations, Elsevier Science & Technology Books) . The business models that are being used by innovative content aggregators and publishing platforms in order to meet the needs of librarians and the distribution advantages they offer to content providers (Jason E. Phillips, Director, Sales Strategy, JSTOR | Portico; others TBA) The program, registration forms, directions to the meeting location, list of nearby hotels, and general information on Philadelphia are available at: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/358-erosion-of-the-subscription-model-nov-10 -2011. On site Attendance: on or before October 25, 2011, NFAIS members pay $385, members of Sister-societies pay $405, and non-members pay $435 (registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, and all-day beverages). After October 25th, NFAIS members pay $435, members of Sister-societies pay $455, and non-members pay $485. Virtual Attendance: on or before October 25, 2011, NFAIS members pay $335, members of Sister- societies pay $355, and non-members pay $385. After October 25th, NFAIS members pay $385, members of Sister-societies pay $405, and non-members pay $435. Unlimited Virtual Attendance: Groups of 3 or more can attend at the following reduced rates: NFAIS members, $995, Sister-society members $1,195, and non-members $1,395. For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/. NFAIS: Supporting the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This is an extraordinary offer and you will want to take advantage of the opportunity by registering at: http://www.regonline.com/register/checkin.aspx?eventid=986491. Personally, I'm eagerly looking forward to it! Jill O'Neill Director, Planning & Communication NFAIS (v) 215-893-1561 (email) jilloneill at nfais.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Tue Oct 25 17:17:53 2011 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:17:53 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] NISO launches Open Discovery Initiative Message-ID: <000601cc935b$8ed013d0$ac703b70$@org> NISO Launches New Open Discovery Initiative to Develop Standards and Recommended Practices for Library Discovery Services Based on Indexed Search The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) voting members have approved a new Open Discovery Initiative work item to develop standards and recommended practices for next generation library discovery services. Using an aggregated index search of a wide range of resources, licensed and free, from multiple providers, these discovery services have the ability to deliver more sophisticated services with instant performance, compared to the federated search techniques previously used. "Marshall Breeding (Director for Innovative Technologies and Research, Vanderbilt University), Jenny Walker (Consultant for Ex Libris), and I hosted an Open Discovery Initiative invitational meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans in June 2011," stated Oren Beit-Arie Chief Strategy Officer at Ex Libris. "We wanted to gauge interest in exploring the issues encountered with these new discovery services and in pursuing more formal standards or best practices for information providers to provide content to discovery services. We received an overwhelmingly positive response from stakeholders, which led the group to bring the project forward to NISO." "Libraries increasingly rely on index-based discovery services as their strategic interfaces through which patrons gain access to the rapid growing breadth of information that may be available to them," states Walker. "They expect their uniquely licensed and purchased electronic content to be made available within the discovery service of their choice. But it is often not clear which resources are available, which are indexed in full text or by citations only, or both, and whether the metadata derives from aggregated databases or directly through the full-text." "The scope of discovery interfaces is broader than what is managed in the integrated library system," explains Breeding. "These services can include other local repositories and digital collections and the electronic resources in subscription information content products. We'd like to see a consistent vocabulary regarding all the elements involved, that there be clarity in the business rules that apply to the content once indexed, and that there be clear descriptors regarding the extent of indexing performed for each item or collection of content and the level of availability of the content." "NISO is very pleased to bring together the stakeholders in open discovery-libraries, information providers and discovery providers-to develop consensus standards or recommended practices on how to make these services more effective for all involved, and ultimately, for the end user," states Todd Carpenter, NISO Managing Director. "Other areas of interest for the new Open Discovery Initiative may include a standard exchange of data describing what rights to the content apply within the discovery service and a standard approach to exchanging data in support of usage reports." Individuals interested in participating in this working group should contact Nettie Lagace ( nlagace at niso.org). An interest group list for this project ( opendiscoveryinfo at list.niso.org) will be available for those who would like to receive updates on the Working Group's progress and provide feedback to the group on its work. 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Government Printing Office (2003 - 2007), Deputy Director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), the Federal agency that advises the President and the Congress on the information needs of the American people (1998 - 2003), and diverse private sector positions in which she provided management, marketing, and technical services for such companies as Mead Data Central and the Disclosure Information Group. Congratulations, Judy! ARL is lucky to have you as are we. Bonnie Lawlor Executive Director National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 1004 Philadelphia, PA 19102 1-215-893-1561 Phone 1-215-893-1564 Fax blawlor at nfais.org www.nfais.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Thu Oct 27 16:49:39 2011 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:49:39 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS Workshop: Alternatives to the subscription model Message-ID: <000301cc94e9$f240de10$d6c29a30$@org> NFAIS Workshop: Erosion of the Subscription Model and Emerging Alternatives. Virtual and On-site registrations available. In the current economic climate libraries have limited purchasing power. Academic budgets are declining while the need for access to digital information is increasing on today's wired campuses. As a result, innovative librarians are seeking alternative methods to access and acquire the content required by their faculty, students, and researchers. Is resource sharing the answer? Will purchase on demand work for books and journals? Is the subscription model no longer viable - even for scholarly materials? What new business models are emerging, are they successful, and what does the future hold for the subscription model in the distribution of scholarly and scientific information. If you want to learn the answers to these questions, join us on November 10, 2011 when librarians and content providers will gather in Philadelphia, PA to share their perspectives in a one-day workshop. Both onsite and virtual registrations are available at a discount until October 25th. Highlights include: * An overview of the current landscape for content purchasing and licensing and a look at how things are shaping for the future (Dan Tonkery, President & CEO, Content Strategies) * A look at the current status of library budgets based upon the environmental scan undertaken by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and released in June 2011 (Lisa Hinchliffe, Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana) * The perspectives of academic librarians and content providers on the future of the subscription model and the alternative solutions with which they are experimenting. (Betsy Appleton, Electronic Resources Librarian, George Mason University Liraries, Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor on Electronic Strategies, Center for Research Libraries; Linda Beebe, Senior Director, American Psychological Association/PsycINFO; M. Scott Dineen, Deputy Senior Director, Publications, Optical Society of America; Amy Pedersen, Vice President of Channel Management and Marketing Operations, Elsevier Science & Technology Books) . The business models that are being used by innovative content aggregators and publishing platforms in order to meet the needs of librarians and the distribution advantages they offer to content providers (Jason E. Phillips, Director, Sales Strategy, JSTOR | Portico; others TBA) The program, registration forms, directions to the meeting location, list of nearby hotels, and general information on Philadelphia are available at: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/358-erosion-of-the-subscription-model-nov-10 -2011. On site Attendance:, NFAIS members pay $435, members of Sister-societies pay $455, and non-members pay $485. Virtual Attendance:, NFAIS members pay $385, members of Sister-societies pay $405, and non-members pay $435. Unlimited Virtual Attendance: Groups of 3 or more can attend at the following reduced rates: NFAIS members, $995, Sister-society members $1,195, and non-members $1,395. Unlimited registrations will also have access to the recorded version for a limited time after the meeting. For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/. NFAIS: Supporting the Global Information Community . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This is a short-term project for November and December, though we likely will have additional work available after the first of the year. We need someone with very good analytical skills, knowledge of bibliographic databases and references, and search experience. Course work in psychology would be a plus. Please contact Linda Beebe (lbeebe at apa.org or 202-336-5636). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: