How Digital Media is Shaping a New Generation of Commerce (Infographic) http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/how-digital-media-is-shaping-a-new-generation-of-commerce-infographic/623046 Stephen

Pew Study: Low Income and Rural Populations Less Likely to Have Internet Access http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/pew-study-low-income-and-rural-populations-less-likely-to-have-internet-access/623238 "The Internet has become an integral part of American life. Indeed, according to the latest Pew Internet demographics study, 84 percent of Americans have internet access. While the percentage of Americans with Internet access has remained largely the same since 2012, an analysis of 15 years of historical data indicates that the digital divide is still a reality, particularly among low-income and rural populations. The young, college educated and affluent are all more likely to use the Internet. In fact, more than 90 percent of those surveyed in the 18-49 age range reporting regular Internet use. That number drops about 10 percent for Americans over 50 and less than 60 percent of seniors 65 or older are likely to use and have access to the Internet. There are similar trends when it comes to education level. Those with a college degree were been quick to adopt the Internet, with 91 percent active online since 2006. By contrast, only 66 percent of those with less than a high school are actively using the internet, up from 55 percent in 2014. According to the report, household income and community type are also indicators of how likely someone is to use the internet. Urban communities are more connected than suburban and rural communities. Likewise, those with an income of $75,000 or more are more connected than those making less than $30,000 annually. The group most likely to be using the Internet is English-speaking Asian Americans, according to the report. Asian Americans have been using the Internet at a ra"te of 90 percent or more since 2009. Other groups have increased their internet use in more recent years, with 85 percent of whites using the Internet, 81 percent of Hispanics and only 78 percent of African-Americans using the Internet. Check out the full report to see the historical data and find out more about the methodology. Stephen

4 Ways to Create Social Media Ads That Stand Out http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/create-social-media-ads-that-stand-out/ #1: Script It for Broadcast #2: Use Video or GIFs #3: Incorporate Humor #4: Provide Content Downloads Stephen

Top 10 Media Publishers for June 2015: BuzzFeed Food Cooking Up Engagement http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/top-10-media-publishers-for-june-2015-buzzfeed-food-cooking-up-engagement/623237 Stephen

4 Key Trends in Social Business as of Right Now http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/4-key-trends-in-social-business-as-of-right-now/623136 Headings: 1. Social customer service getting better, and more important 2. Content channels/distribution: It’s complicated 3. Data and analytics are a boon and a challenge 4. Social businesses are looking beyond social Stephen

Everything Science Knows About Reading On Screens WE’VE ADAPTED OUR READING HABITS TO FIT OUR SCREENS, BUT AT A COST. http://www.fastcodesign.com/3048297/evidence/everything-science-knows-about-reading-on-screens Thanks to technology, we’re reading more than ever—our brains process thousands of words via text messages, email, games, social media, and web stories. According to one report, the amount people that read tripled from 1980 to the late 2000s, and it’s probably safe to say that trend continues today. But as we jam more and more words into our heads, how we read those words has changed in a fundamental way: we’ve moved from paper to screens. It’s left many wondering what we’ve lost (or gained) in the shift, and a handful of scientists are trying to figure out the answer." Read more: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3048297/evidence/everything-science-knows-about-reading-on-screens Stephen

Jane Dysart and I have been planning and chairing a series of symposia at the University of Toronto and for other locations with Ken Haycock & Associates -  for a few years.  When they’re completed we post the speakers’ slides and links.  FOPL and OLA members are entitled to a 20% registration discount at the iSchool events. I thought it would be helpful to put them all in one place.  We’ve done 11 so far with three more on the drawing board.  Here they are: Customer Service for Libraries July 16 & 17, 2015, Toronto http://www.customerserviceforlibraries.com Pushing the Envelope in Education: Roles for Libraries — MOOCs, eLearning & Gamification Sept. 30 and Oct.1, 2013, Toronto http://www.moocsandlibraries.org Creative Making in Libraries & Museums (2014) Oct. 6 & 7, 2014, Toronto http://www.creativemaking.org Creative Making in Libraries & Museums (2013) July 22-23, 2013 http://www.creativemaking.org/2013-toronto-program.html The Future of Libraries: Do We Have Five Years to Live? 2015 February 5-6, 2015, USC in Los Angeles http://www.thefutureoflibraries.org The Future of Libraries: Do We Have Five Years to Live? 2013 Nov. 12-13, 2013, Vancouver http://www.thefutureoflibraries.org/vancouver-2013-past-program.html The Future of Libraries: Do We Have Five Years to Live? 2014 May 1-2, 2014, Royal York Hotel, Toronto http://www.thefutureoflibraries.org/toronto-2014-past-program.html Building an Engaged Flat Army for the Library 2014 November 13-14, 2014, Toronto http://www.doitourselvesfuture.com Metrics and Libraries 2015 May 11-12, 2015, Toronto http://www.metricsandlibraries.org/archive-2015-program-home.html Metrics and Libraries 2013 July 22-23, 2013 http://www.metricsandlibraries.org/2013-program.html Metrics and Libraries 2014 April 22-23, 2014, Toronto http://www.metricsandlibraries.org/2014-program.html We’re also working on a few more in the future: Outcomes, Value & Impact: Metrics for Library Success Vancouver Club, Vancouver Sept. 28-29, 2015 To register: http://www.metricsandlibraries.org The Future of Libraries IV Oct.19-20, 2015, Toronto And then another symposium back at the iSchool @ Toronto in Jan. 2016! What would you like future topics to be? Stephen

HBR: How to Get the Most Out of a Conference https://hbr.org/2015/07/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-a-conference Headings: "What the Experts Say Change your mindset Pre-introduce yourself Be strategic with your time Network on your terms Listen more; talk less Manage your existing connections Make time for yourself Principles to Remember Do: Shift your mindset by focusing on how networking is good for your career When choosing which sessions to attend, consider whether you’ll learn something or meet someone new Take the initiative to create networking situations where you feel comfortable Don’t: Spend all of your time with coworkers you see every day — draw clear boundaries Burn out — give yourself time to rest and rejuvenate during the conference Try to be someone you’re not — putting on a false persona is stressful and tiring" Stephen

Top 100 Social Media Tools & Resources You Can Benefit From Today   http://www.postcontrolmarketing.com/top-100-social-media-tools-resources-you-can-benefit-from-today/ "Social Media News & Insights Social Media Examiner: www.socialmediaexaminer.com Social Media Explorer: www.socialmediaexplorer.com Social Media Today: socialmediatoday.com Social Media Marketing Magazine: www.smmmagazine.com Chris Brogan: http://chrisbrogan.com/blog Hubspot’s Inbound Hub: blog.hubspot.com RazerSocial: www.razorsocial.com Social Mouths: socialmouths.com/blog Mashable Social Media: mashable.com/social-media Gartner Digital Marketing: blogs.gartner.com/digital-marketing Jeff Bullas: jeffbullas.com Convince & Convert : www.convinceandconvert.com Grow: www.businessesgrow.com FTC Disclosures: http://1.usa.gov/1eBRixc Social Media Law Bulletin: www.socialmedialawbulletin.com Social Media Podcasts Social Media Examiner: www.socialmediaexaminer.com/tag/podcast Social Pros Podcast: socialpros.podbean.com This Old Marketing: contentmarketinginstitute.com/pnr-with-this-old-marketing-podcast The Marketing Companion: marketingpodcasts.com/the-marketing-companion Content Inc.: contentmarketinginstitute.com/content-inc-podcast Social Media Monitoring & Metrics Hootsuite: hootsuite.com Social Bakers: socialbakers.com Lithium: lithium.com Brandwatch: brandwatch.com Oracle Social Cloud: www.oracle.com/us/solutions/social Radian6 (Salesforce): exacttarget.com/products/social-media-marketing/radian6 Sysomos: www.sysomos.com Nielson Social: www.nielsensocial.com Critical Mention: www.criticalmention.com Cision: www.cision.com/us/social-software Social Mention: socialmention.com Addict-o-matic: addictomatic.com How Socialble: howsociable.com Meltwater Ice Rocket: www.icerocket.com Simply Measured: simplymeasured.com Trackur: www.trackur.com Row Feeder: rowfeeder.com Online Data Collection Quantcast: quantcast.com Google Analytics: www.google.com/analytics Kiss Metrics: www.kissmetrics.com SEMrush: www.semrush.com Mention: en.mention.com Social Bakers: www.socialbakers.com Talkwalker Alerts: www.talkwalker.com Omgili: omgili.com SharedCount: www.sharedcount.com Topsy: topsy.com Twitter Advanced Search: twitter.com/search-advanced Tweetreach: tweetreach.com Cyfe: www.cyfe.com Keyhole: keyhole.co YouGovProfiles: yougov.co.uk/profiler# Google Trends: www.google.com/trends Soovle: soovle.com Klout: Klout.com Kred: kred.com Social Media Research Pew Research Center: www.pewinternet.org Nielsen Social Media Reports: www.nielsensocial.com Forrester: www.forrester.com/social-media Social Technographics Profile:www.empowered.forrester.com/tool_consumer.html Social Media Collective: socialmediacollective.org Social Explorer: www.socialexplorer.com Global Web Index: www.globalwebindex.net Statista: www.statista.com Affinio: www.affin.io/ Gallap: www.gallap.com Roper Center: www.ropercenter.uconn.edu Kantar Media SRDS: srds.com Simmons: simmonsssurvey.com Social Media Graphics Tools Canva: www.canva.com PicMonkey: picmonkey.com Piktochart: piktochart.com Easelly: www.easel.ly Design Seeds: design-seeds.com Word Swag: www.wordswag.co Over: madewithover.com Pictaculous: pictaculous.com Adobe Kuler: color.adobe.com/create.color-wheel Google Fonts: www.google.com/fonts    Social Content Scheduling & Automation HubSpot: hubspot.com Sprout Social: sproutsocial.com SocialOomph: www.socialoomph.com Buffer: bufferapp.com TweetDeck: about.twitter.com/products/tweetdeck Crowdbooster: crowdbooster.com Later Bro: laterbro.com Post Planner: www.postplanner.com Buddy Media: www.exacttarget.com/products/social-media-marketing/buddy-media dlvr.it: dlvr.it Edgar: meetedgar.com Zapier: zapier.com IFTTT: ifttt.com Short Stack: www.shortstack.com Woodbox: woobox.com Zendesk: www.zendesk.com Trade Associations, Awards, Conferences Word of Mouth Marketing Association: womma.org Online Media Marketing Awards: www.mediapost.com/ommaawards The Webby Awards: www.webbyawards.com The Shorty Awards: shortyawards.com The Mashies: mashable.com/mashies Social Media Strategies Summit: socialmediastrategiessummit.com Social Media Week: socialmediaweek.org SXSW: sxsw.com SXSWedu: http://www.sxswedu.com Social Media Marketing World:www.socialmediaexaminer.com/smmworld INBOUND: www.inbound.com Content Marketing World: www.contentmarketingworld.com Brand Innovators: brand-innovators.com/events Summit: summit.adobe.com/na" Stephen

Congratulations to the winners - looking forward to the results!  A few awesome friends here. 22 ideas win Knight News Challenge: Libraries http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2015/1/30/22-projects-win-knight-news-challenge-libraries/ "In September we launched the 12th Knight News Challenge, on libraries, asking the question, "How might we leverage libraries as a platform to build more knowledgeable communities?" Today we’re announcing 22 winners of that challenge, awarding the recipients a share of $3 million for their ideas. Related Link "Knight News Challenge on Libraries awards $3 million for innovative ideas" - Press release, 01/30/2015 Building on previous experience working with libraries, this challenge has helped us learn a great deal about libraries and the challenges they face while serving the information needs of their communities. Several themes emerged among the winners, including focusing on digital rights and privacy; history and digital preservation; the maker movement and open data. We look forward to learning more as the projects develop and to applying that knowledge to our work more broadly. Additionally, we have experienced firsthand the enthusiasm inside and outside of libraries for making them vibrant civic institutions in a digital age. The winners of the Knight News Challenge: Online Learning @ The Public Library Peer 2 Peer University $152,000 | Philipp Schmidt and Carl Ruppin Making open online courses easier to access and complete for diverse members of the community by organizing in-person study groups for patrons in Chicago Public Library branch libraries. Culture in Transit Metropolitan New York Library Council $330,000 | Anne Karle-Zenith Helping more communities share their histories online by creating a mobile kit that will scan and digitize print materials for public archiving in partnership with Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Library. The Internet Archive $600,000 | Alexis Rossi and Brewster Kahle Helping people create and share global collections of cultural treasures on the Internet Archive, one of the world’s largest public libraries. The Library Freedom Project $244,700 | Alison Macrina Providing librarians and their patrons with tools and information to better understand their digital rights by scaling a series of privacy workshops for librarians. Library for All: Digital Library for the Developing World $265,000 | Rebecca McDonald, Tanyella Evans and Isabel Sheinman Making educational content available at libraries and schools across the developing world through a digital platform designed specifically for low-bandwidth environments. Measure the Future Evenly Distributed $130,000 | Jason Griffey Helping libraries better manage one of their greatest assets - the building itself - by using open hardware to track data about its public spaces. Open Data to Open Knowledge City of Boston $475,000 | Jascha Franklin-Hodge Turning Boston’s open data collection into an accessible resource by working with Boston Public Library to catalog it and introduce it to the public. Space/Time Directory New York Public Library $380,000 | Matthew Knutzen, David Riordan, Ben Vershbow Working with local communities and technologists to turn historical maps and other library collections into an interactive directory for the exploration of New York across time periods. Prototype Fund awards Fourteen winners of the News Challenge will receive prototype funding. These projects will be awarded $35,000, receive training on design and innovation methodology and rapidly iterate on their ideas over a six-month period. (To be part of the next Knight Prototype Fund cohort, apply by Feb. 16) The winners of prototype awards are: BklynShare by Brooklyn Public Library (New York; project lead: Michael Fieni; Twitter: @bklynlibrary): Enabling people to learn new skills through a service that connects knowledge seekers with experts in their own neighborhood Book a Nook by Harvard University metaLAB (Boston; project lead: Jeffrey Schnapp; Twitter: @metalabharvard, @berkmancenter, @jaytiesse): Activating library public spaces for diverse community uses by testing a software toolkit that streamlines the exploration and reservation of physical library spaces. The Community Resource Lab by District of Columbia Public Library (Washington, D.C.; project lead: Meaghan O’Connor; Twitter: @dcpl): Advancing the library as the primary anchor of an open information system that connects residents to essential health, human and social services. Co-working at the Library by Miami Dade Public Library (Miami; project lead: Liz Pearson; Twitter: @MDPLS): Providing freelancers, entrepreneurs and innovators a collaborative space for co-working in Miami-Dade libraries. Indie Games Licensing by Concordia University’s TAG Research Center (Montreal, project lead: Olivier Charbonneau; Twitter: @culturelibre): Prototyping models for the licensing and circulation of independent video games at libraries. GITenberg by Project GITenberg (Montclair, N.J., and Somerville, Mass.; project leads: Eric Hellman and Seth Woodworth; Twitter: @GITenberg): Exploring collaborative cataloging for Project Gutenberg public-domain ebooks using the Web-based repository hosting service GitHub. Journalism Digital News Archive by University of Missouri Libraries and the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (Columbia, Mo.; project lead: Edward McCain; Twitter: @e_mccain): Ensuring access to digital news content through development of a model for archiving and preserving digital content that can be used across the country. Maker Tool Circulating Kits by Make it @ Your Library (Chicago; project leads: Katy Hite, Amy Killebrew, Elizabeth Ludemann, Allison Parker, Vicki Rakowski; Twitter: @MakeItLib): Sharing the tools and technology of the maker movement by prototyping an equipment lending system - a process for sharing maker kits between libraries - that builds on existing interlibrary loan frameworks. Making the Invisible Visible by Bibliocommons (Boston; project lead: Iain Lowe Twitter: @bibliocommons, @ilowelife): Prototyping an app to give patrons a deeper library experience based on the user’s location, interests and actions in the library. Privacy Literacy by San Jose Public Library (San Jose, Calif.; project leads: Erin Berman and Jon Worona; Twitter: @SanJoseLibrary): Developing online tools which will help individuals understand privacy in the digital age and make more informed decisions about their online activity. Information for Innovation by Kent State University Library (Kent, Ohio; project lead: Karen McDonald; Twitter: @KentState_LIB): Exploring ways to provide information services to local entrepreneurs and business counselors, to see what services they might need to reach their goals. This Place Matters by Marshall University (Huntington, W.Va.; project lead: Monica Brooks; Twitter: @MUPlaceMatters): Exploring the potential of a location-aware mobile application to share African American history and link to library resources. White Space 101 (San Francisco; project lead: Don Means; Twitter: @donmeans): Creating learning materials for libraries to explore and implement TV White Space networks to support remote library Internet hotspots that will give people wider broadband access, especially in crisis situations. Your Next Skill by Seattle Public Library (Seattle; project lead: Jennifer Yeung; Twitter: @splbuzz): Helping people acquire new skills or expand their knowledge by creating a librarian-led, referral service that connects users with materials, classes and instructors that will help them meet their goals. A special thanks to everyone who helped make this challenge possible. As with other challenges, we relied on the expertise of outside advisers as part of the review process. For this challenge 27 advisers helped us read all of the entriesand review the semifinalists. Additionally, I would like to thank everyone who submitted ideas and who participated on the challenge platform. We are inspired by the energy in the library community and look forward to being involved in innovative work coming from these important civic institutions.: Stephen

Extensive Survey Report of over 4,000 Academic Library Users Published http://librarytechnology.org/news/pr.pl?id=20878 July 20, 2015 "Emeryville, CA. Innovative announced today the publication of survey results from over 4,000 library users at seven academic libraries in the UK. "We Love the Library, but We Live on the Web" - Findings around how academic library users view online resources and services (2015) reports on how online users interact with library-related services and what the key challenges are for libraries to meet these expectations. The results suggest that libraries can meet more needs of their users by including all manner of library resources - including multimedia - in a single, effective discovery source; providing more direct workflows geared toward electronic research; enabling social features; and empowering users with apps. In addition, libraries should seize the opportunity to engage users by surfacing their data on the greater Web. "Innovative was proud to sponsor this independent survey because we are dedicated to enabling libraries to provide the best possible experience to their users on the Web," says VP of Global Marketing Gene Shimshock. "User behavior and the larger technology ecosystem are rapidly changing, so the library community has to ‘take the pulse’ of its user base in order to sustain a high level of service. We’d like to salute the staff at these academic libraries for their efforts and participation in the study." The report includes results from survey findings at: University of Glasgow; University of Hull; University of Keele; London South Bank University; Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh; Queen’s University, Belfast; and the Wellcome Library. The survey and report were managed by Sero Consulting (www.serohe.co.uk). The full report can be downloaded at http://info.iii.com/survey-uk-academic-libraries. About Innovative Innovative (www.iii.com) is dedicated to providing leading technology solutions and services that empower libraries and enrich their users worldwide. Innovative offers one of the broadest and most complete portfolios of library automation products on the market today. Headquartered in Emeryville, California, Innovative serves thousands of libraries in 66 countries and has offices around the world." Stephen

Exploring Students’ E-Textbook Practices in Higher Education http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/exploring-students-e-textbook-practices-higher-education "Key Takeaways A two-year university-wide study of students’ e-textbook practices found that e-textbook use has increased and become broader demographically. Lower cost and convenience remain the top reasons students purchase an e-textbook, not the interactive features designed to enhance learning. The instructor’s role has not changed significantly in the past two years, suggesting the need for further professional development including increased awareness, instruction, and active modeling. Aimee deNoyelles, John Raible, and Ryan Seilhamer, Instructional Designers, University of Central Florida" Stephen

New Report from OCLC: The Archival Advantage: Integrating Archival Expertise into Management of Born-digital Library Materials http://www.infodocket.com/2015/07/08/new-report-from-oclc-the-archival-advantage-integrating-archival-expertise-into-management-of-born-digital-library-materials/ "OCLC Research has just released a new report by Program Officer, Jackie Dooley. The report is titled, The Archival Advantage: Integrating Archival Expertise into Management of Born-digital Library Materials and can be accessed here (28 pages; PDF). From the Description: This essay also focuses on ten areas of archival expertise and their relevance to the digital context. These include confirming ownership, appraising the significance of content, documenting the context of creation, negotiating with collection donors and nurturing these relationships over time, recognizing and navigating legal issues, ensuring authenticity of files, and using practical approaches to creating metadata for large collections. Each of these is equally relevant for digital and analog (physical) materials. Archivists’ in-depth knowledge of each area helps to ensure that the right questions are addressed. Report Highlights The full array of traditional archival skills is equally relevant in the born-digital context. Research data sets, email, websites, blogs and many other born-digital library materials have characteristics similar to analog archival materials. It is beneficial for digital librarians, IT experts, curators, library administrators and other research library colleagues who manage digital materials to be aware of archivists’ skills and expertise and their relevance to the digital context Areas of archival expertise that other experts may lack include donor relations, appraisal, context of creation and use, authenticity, transfer of ownership and permanence. Direct to Full Text Report (28 pages; PDF)." Stephen

The Condensed Guide to Running Meetings https://hbr.org/2015/07/the-condensed-guide-to-running-meetings 1. "Keep the meeting as small as possible. No more than seven people." 2. "Ban devices." 3. "Keep it as short as possible — no longer than an hour." 4. "Stand-up meetings are more productive." 6. "Never hold a meeting just to update people." 7. "Always set an agenda out ahead of time - and be clear about the purpose of the meeting." Stephen

Learn to talk like a silicon valley geek. 35 explanations of Silicon Valley lingo that the rest of the world doesn’t understand http://www.businessinsider.com/language-commonly-used-in-tech-industry-rest-of-the-world-wont-understand-2015-7 "We pulled 35 of the most widely-used and interesting terms and definitions found on the site that only people in Silicon Valley would understand, and the Dictionary’s amusing definitions for them.1. In the wild Seeing a new technology out in the real world, not just at launches and demos. Have you spotted the new Google car in the wild yet? 2. Founder Syndrome Founder syndrome is when a company’s founder starts thinking he is a rockstar and that the startup is still going because of his bright opinions on everything. He starts neglecting what engineering proposes and puts his nose in every single detail. It can also be called the "I’m like Steve Jobs" Syndrome. Founder at early stage: Guys! Let’s work together and make it happen, we all rock. 
 Founder after the syndrome: No, just do it like I said, everybody is using this Ruby On Rails thing, we must use it too. 3. VC Money Modern day Robinhood. 
Taking money from your parents’ retirement pension and redistributing it to early adopters of technology in Silicon Valley. Friend 1: "How do you have so many free meals from Munchery? Have you ever paid for a single meal?" 
 Friend 2: "Nope. VC Money" 4. Server Down Saturday A Saturday night where a video game’s server crashes and one has to go out and socialize with people in person. We had a server down saturday this past weekend, so I went to Julia’s party. It was the first time I had talked to a girl in real life in months. 5. Sticky Usually refers to when user retention rate (i.e. percentage of users coming back) for a product is high. A key to creating a viral app is to make it sticky! Once users love it, they will come back and tell their friends about it. 6. Venture Dunce A "VC" outside of the Bay Area that has little to no experience in software/hardware, enterprise, and consumer plays. Often seen funding the nth food delivery market place or Uber meets bicycles. The dumb money that keeps many startups fed. Just raised $10mm from the Venture Dunce for my Uber meets Chinese food delivery. Hope he doesn’t visit the Bay Area much. 7. Value Add Noun. A term for vague and banal advice VCs like giving the founders, supposedly helping uncover the secrets to building a successful business. VC (at board meeting): you know, it is very important not to run out of money 
 Founder (trying to placate — more funding will be needed soon): that’s a very good point, we are on it 
 VC: when we invested, I told you we bring a lot of "value add," not just money 
 Founder: (placating again): gee, you were right, and we appreciate it 
 VC (smug, and actually believing they just helped): thank you 8. Soylent Diet Refers to the diet of busy entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Instead of eating like normal human beings, these entrepreneurs drink Soylent, a powered meal replacement, because it is more efficient than chewing and using knife and fork. Matthew: Wow have you heard of Soylent? It will allow me to work throughout the day without wasting any time to eat like these foodies out here. I only wish it came in a backpack so I could attach a feeding tube between it and my stomach and have it on the go. 9. One Dollar Billionaire Refers to the $1 a year salary that a lot of founders and top executives take on for tax benefits. It’s also because who really cares about salary when you have a billion dollars. Mark Zuckerberg: I make $1 a year. You know what that means. 10. Backseat Investor An investor who will never tell you no, but will wait for a lead investor to commit so he can take a backseat and ride the return train. They always tell you to keep them informed with your project without ever providing active help. I thought Cody would be a generous investor after his company got acquired, but instead he’s just another backseat investor waiting for a bigger fish to bite. 11. Janitor at startup The title an asshole CEO (generally a sole founder) puts on their Linkedin title to show they have the ability to fire anybody. Random dude: Where do you work? 
 Albert: I am at the greatest game company around called BigVikingGames 
 Random dude: Cool, what do you do there? 
 Albert: I am the janitor, I just take out the trash! 
 Random dude: Cool story bro. 12. Apportunity When a mobile app has the capability to improve or perform a commonly desired action. This is a great apportunity- a way to use our smart phones to decrease lines at the DMV by allowing reservations. 13. Pre-Revenue The purist form of startup. A startup that is valued for billions of dollars without recording any sales revenue. Typically, less revenue demonstrates a higher valuation by "Early Stage Investors." Investor: ‘What’s your revenue model?’ 
 Founder: ‘At the moment, we are pre-revenue…we are focused on user acquisition and securing a unicorn valuation for our Series A.’ 14. Zombie Mode A state of minimal eye or head movement while looking at a phone. Frequently observed during your morning commute to work on BART, subway or bus. If you look up once in a while to observe your surroundings you are not in zombie mode. Jason: Hey do you see that guy sitting over there. That’s my dad. Why is he taking the bus right now. 
 Tim: Sorry say that again. I wasn’t listening. 15. Logo Wingman When an employee of a hot pre-IPO company purposely wears a lot of corporate swag to attract the opposite sex. Richard: Yesterday I was talking to this woman at the bar and I purposely tilted my body so she could get a glance at the Uber logo on my sweatshirt. My backpack had Uber on it too. No response. I mean I didn’t initiate conversation but I thought that would be enough. 16. Churn Rate Fancy term for the percentage of people that stop using startup’s offerings. 
Higher the churn rate, the more screwed up your startup will be. 
Famously used in Andrew Chen’s blog article on dating startups. Investor: So what’s the churn rate for your company? 
 Founder: Well, in the last 3 months, about 80% of users came back to use our service. 
 Investor: So, about 20%. That’s pretty good. But that’s 80% out of how many? 
 Founder: … 17. The Steve Jobs Diet A dietary regimen containing mostly fruits, nuts, seeds, vegetables and grains with a higher to average ratio of apples and carrots. Absolutely no animal products. I decided to go on the Steve Jobs Diet because Steve is my icon. That’s why there are only apples and carrots in the house. 18. Airbnb Job Refers to the job of renting out sections of your own apartment or even renting and purchasing new property for the sole purpose of renting out on Airbnb. Rachel: You told me you didn’t have a job. 
 Tim: Oh, it’s an Airbnb job. Not a real job but my closet is fetching $800 a month right now so I make good money. 19. Three Commas Club Three commas implies a billion dollars as $1,000,000,000 has 3 commas. Richard’s literalness remains the one thing to rattle Russ. "You know what has three commas in it, Richard?" "A sentence with two appositive phrases in it?" 20. Buying the logo Investors putting a tiny percentage of a fund into a company so they can claim credit. Credit to Sam Altman. Due to the success of Airbnb, some investors are buying the logo so they can put an Airbnb badge on their website. 21. Bootstrap Funding your startup from your own pocket money. (Because nobody will invest in it). I don’t need VC money, I have decided to bootstrap it myself. Yeah! 22. MVP The "minimum viable product" is exactly like the product you had in mind, except with fewer features and more bugs. Founder: "We’re going to validate the market with our MVP." 
Engineer: "Sweet!" 23. 10x Engineer A developer who incurs technical debt so fast he appears more productive than the ten developers tasked with cleaning his mess up. Founder: "We are only looking for 10x Engineers." 24. Gamification Adding game elements to normally not game related software or processes in order to increase engagement. A: User testing has shown that users don’t like our accounting app. 
 B: We should really be adding some gamification. 
 A: Will that make the app more useful? 
 B: No, but more fun! 25. Herd Mentality When people follow the leader or others like a herd instead of thinking independently. Often seen when investors are deciding which startups to fund. VC: You guys have a really strong team, exactly the type that we like to fund, but we just don’t believe in the idea. 
 Kim: Did I mention that a16z decided to invest in us yesterday. 
 VC: Wait. Don’t leave. I think we started things off on the wrong foot. 26. Pivot We failed. Now, we’re starting over, possibly with something completely different. We started out by building a SoLoMo network for hermits. We’ve now pivoted to becoming the Uber of door-to-door encyclopedia sales. 27. Stealth Mode A startup that is a phase of secrecy in which they don’t reveal what they actually do in an attempt to ward off potential competition. Zeeshan: What do you do? 
 Steve: I’m in a startup. 
 Zeeshan: What do you guys do? 
 Steve: I can’t tell you. We’re in stealth mode. 
Zeeshan: That’s dumb. 28. Hockey Stick Growth We are wildly overoptimistic about our future growth prospects. Our growth rate may look linear (some would say flat), but that’s how most of a hockey stick looks. Once we hit that curve, we’ll blow up! 29. Philz Coffee A coffee brand that Bay Area engineers and investors drink because Starbucks is too mainstream. They think they’re consuming premium beans, when really it’s all based on multi-bean combinations that no one in their right mind can tell the difference between. Because they secretly know this they ask if you’d like cream and sugar (aka Philz Way). Jimmy: Can I try your Ambarosia? 
 Jack: Sure, try my Tesora. 
 Jimmy: Wow I taste a more buttery aftertaste in yours. 
 Jack: Woah is that a hint of Blueberry. 
 Cindy: You guys are both full of s-t. They taste exactly the same. This is Philz Coffee, not Blue Bottle. 30. Brogrammer When you mix your typical engineer with your typical frat boy. The official heuristic to identify a brogrammer in your organization is when you can’t tell whether the suspect is part of your engineering team or your sales team. David: I originally thought Kilim was a programmer but he’s been popping his collar and talking a lot. Is he a brogrammer? 31. Decacorn A startup valued at $10 billion or more Kilim: It sucks that my startup is only a unicorn. Look at Snapchat. They are a decacorn. 32. Brain Rape Acquisition talk thinly disguised as an intellectual property robbery. Usually committed by a big company on a startup. Erlich: They’re brainraping us right? 
 Gerald: They definitely are. 
 33. Acquihire When a startup is bought with the sole purpose of hiring the startup’s employees versus obtaining the product/users. Generally, startups that get acquhired are struggling and the move is done as a last resort. Alex: I heard your startup got acquired by Facebook. Give me some of that startup money. 
 John: It was an acquihire. I don’t want to talk about it. 34. Resting and vesting When you have equity in a company that hasn’t fully vested yet and stay at the company even though you have no real role there. Matthew: Why are you on the roof park all the time, aren’t you the VP of marketing? 
 Hemant: Yes but that’s just a title. I’m really resting and vesting. 35. Freemium A strategy used by startups to make money by shoving as many people through the top of a funnel as possible and hoping some of them convert into paid users. Matthew: Right now we have a shitty product that nobody will pay for. Lets release it for free so at least somebody will use it and then we can gradually improve it and charge them for extra services." Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/language-commonly-used-in-tech-industry-rest-of-the-world-wont-understand-2015-7#ixzz3fbcbPGD0   Stephen

How Users Search and Discover: Personalization and Anticipatory Discovery By Christine Stohn, Senior Product Manager, Discovery & Delivery, Ex Libris http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2015/07/how-users-search-and-discover.html "In previous posts, we looked at different scenarios from the Ex Libris user studies, which gave us a real-world context for our understanding of the library discovery process. After looking last time at scenarios that highlighted three out of the four core aspects of discovery repeatedly appearing in our research - Search, Exploration and Learning - I’d now like to turn to the fourth concept:Personalization." Stephen

An Op-Ed by David Weinberger: "There’s a Library-Shaped Hole in the Internet" http://www.infodocket.com/2015/07/25/an-op-ed-by-david-weinberger-theres-a-library-shaped-hole-in-the-internet/ "David Weinberger, thinker, blogger, author, thinker, speaker and member of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has a new an op-ed (820 words) published by the Boston Globe. From the Op-Ed: If you want to know anything about movies, the Internet’s got you covered. Likewise for details about the world’s roadways, song lyrics, or Pokemon characters. But if you want to know about books and the other items of culture we’ve entrusted to libraries, it’s much harder to find out. We’re not even sure what to link to when posting about a book. In short, there’s a library-shaped hole in the Internet. [Clip] Librarians understand the context in which books make sense, how they go together, what are the canonical readings, and what are the dissenting works worth reading. Library information systems may not know as much about users’ behavior as Amazon does, but even highly anonymized usage records can say a lot about what a community values: which works people are reading, which ones they like or think are important, and even the relations they see among the works. In essence, the library can hold a mirror up to the community, allowing it to get a clearer and stronger sense of itself. That means libraries should seize the initiative to fill that hole in the Internet with everything they know and are allowed to make public. Read the Complete Op-Ed (via Boston Globe) Hat Tip: Michael Alguire" Stephen

Forrester: Tablet Sales Have Plateaued But There’s A Future In Business http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/12/forrester-tablet-sales-have-plateaued-but-theres-a-future-in-business/?ncid=rss "As iPhone revenue soars, Apple’s iPad sales dropped 18 percent year-over-year in the final quarter of 2014 and has now hit a plateau, according to a new study from Forrester Research. Even the new iPad Air didn’t help. But it’s not just Apple’s device that slipped. The study points to an overall plateau in tablet sales worldwide. The reason for the slump in sales is varied, but saturation in the consumer market may have a lot to do with it. Android tablets have plummeted in price - some to even as low as $50 - making this an incredibly accessible piece of technology for most consumers." Stephen

Librarians are always collecting horror stories and bad sites from the web for teaching purposes.  Here’s some lists of questionable Facebook pages. Ten Facebook Pages You Need to Stop Sharing From http://dawnsbrain.com/ten-facebook-pages-you-need-to-stop-sharing-from/ UPDATE May 11 2015: Ten Facebook Pages You Need to Stop Sharing From Part 2 UPDATE June 25 2015: Ten Facebook Pages You Need to Stop Sharing From Part 3 Stephen   Stephen

Adult Learners on Stress in College http://blog.cengage.com/adult-learners-on-stress-in-college/ Stephen

Competencies for Information Professionals in Learning Labs and Makerspaces Kyungwon Koh, School of Library and Information Studies, The University of Oklahoma, Email: kkoh@ou.edu June Abbas, School of Library and Information Studies, The University of Oklahoma, Email: jmabbas@ou.edu https://kyungwonkoh.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/koh_abbas_jelis2015.pdf "Competencies for Information Professionals in Learning Labs and Makerspaces Kyungwon Koh School of Library and Information Studies, The University of Oklahoma, Email: kkoh@ou.edu June Abbas School of Library and Information Studies, The University of Oklahoma, Email: jmabbas@ou.edu An increasing number of libraries and museums provide transformative learning spaces, often called "Learning Labs" and "Makerspaces." These spaces invite users to explore traditional and digital media, interact with mentors and peers, and engage in creative projects. For these spaces and programs to be sustainable, it is essential that they are staffed by qualified professionals and support staff. This research study investigated the competencies required for the successful performance of professionals in library and museum learning spaces. Researchers conducted in-depth interviews with professionals working in leading learning spaces in the U.S. The findings include top competencies (e.g., ability to learn, adapt to new situations, collaborate, serve as an advocate, and serve diverse people) and skills (e.g., management, program development, grant writing, technology, and facilitating learning) required for professionals, as well as relevance of higher education to prepare them for their current positions. The study generated curricular design implications for LIS educators with an emphasis on teaching and learning with technologies." Via: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/05/opinion/michael-stephens/researcher-what-you-got-office-hours/ Stephen

5 Ways to Help Your Students Become Better Questioners http://www.edutopia.org/blog/help-students-become-better-questioners-warren-berger   Stephen

School Libraries Are Under Attack http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122293/school-libraries-are-under-attack "From coast to coast, elementary and high school libraries are being neglected, defunded, repurposed, abandoned, and closed. The kindest thing that can be said about this is that it’s curious; the more accurate explanation is that it’s just wrong and very foolish. A 2011 survey conducted with my graduate students of 25 separate statewide studies shows that students who attend schools with libraries that are staffed by certified librarians score better on reading and writing tests than students in schools without library services. And it is lower-income students who benefit the most. This clear empirical evidence has had little impact on budget cutters, however. They act—mistakenly—as though there is no link between libraries and educational achievement. Here are the numbers and the arguments to which they need to pay attention." http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122293/school-libraries-are-under-attack Stephen

Infographic: Summer Reading Habits http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/07/25/infographic-summer-reading-habits/ Stephen