As part of the MIMA Summit Blog Carnival, here’s a quick post addressing on of this week’s topics…

Topic #1: Keynote presenter, Ze Frank says, “You have a paradigm shift coming around. There is so much that happens as soon as you release anything — you get all this feedback…you get unexpected usage patterns, you get requests for new things, you get crises.” So, whose job is it to respond to all of these feedback, and how should they go about doing it?

Unfortunately, the responsibility for this often falls to the marketing department. Don’t get me wrong, PR folks (like me) . . . → Read More: MIMA Summit Blog Carnival: #4

Last night I spoke on a MIMA panel called titled “Too Much Information? Surviving Data Overload.” You can view the archived stream here.

I thought the overall event was fine, although I’m afraid the topic and questions were too general, geeky, philosphical and/or tactical for about half of the audience to appreciate. At the end of the day, there’s still a bulk of people who want to be told that managing an e-mail box to zero and using personal folders is the key to organizing data. While this is true (to an extent), social media has so much more exciting offerings to talk through. But the bulk of us early adopters tend to forget not everyone is on Twitter or uses RSS (although they should, which is the position the panel took from the outset).

In hindsight, I would’ve loved to hear (the librarian) share more. She sent around some sweet links prior to the panel that are golden (see below). I also would have suggested each panelist prepare three solid take-aways for the audience. Or maybe we should have each presented for 10 minutes and then open it to questions. Hindsight being perfect and all, I still think the event went well and got lots of great comments following the event.

Here’s the basic premise of what I talked about…Social Information Hoarding.
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