Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Born of Disruption: An Emerging New Normal for the Information Landscape

2012 NFAIS Annual Conference: Born of Disruption: An Emerging New Normal for the Information Landscape - "The emergence of e-journals, search engines, and the Web triggered the disruption of the information landscape more than twenty years ago. Accelerated by the continual introduction of new technologies, the perpetual reshaping of digital content, and the coming of age of Digital Natives, disruption is gradually transforming the entire industry as technologies mature, converge, and become mainstream. Today, the melding of broadband connectivity, mobile devices and apps, cloud computing, analytic tools, and social media has created a platform-rich information environment that can be leveraged to enhance and enrich the information discovery process. This new information environment is driving publishers and librarians around the globe to reinvent their methods of information creation, packaging, and delivery while building the requisite organizational infrastructures. What is the new normal for content as multimedia grows in importance . . . As changes in user information behavior accelerate and the Digital Natives come of age, are business models and practices in alignment with the new normal? . . . "

For ex-army amputees, Edmonton's rehab centre a state-of-the-art gem
Canada.com
"That's one of the reasons I was successful at it, because it was a new me, a new normal. . . . It gives me a huge sense of freedom that someone using a wheelchair will never have." Franklin admits running was beyond his new normal, since he had to ...

Three Ways to Manage Rising Gas Prices
Triple Pundit
Some have looked at what the impacts of higher gas prices will be while others have acknowledged that they aren't going lower and asked if your business is ready for the “new normal” of high fuel prices. These articles have pointed out some very ...

The new normal: Lessons for manufacturers
ICIS (subscription)
Manufacturing processes will need to change in many companies as we transition to the New Normal. Quality will matter more and more as we move away from the throwaway society of the past couple of decades. So will approaches such as Process ...

Much to Savor, and Worry About, Amid Mild Winter's Early Blooms
New York Times
The experimental garden could, over time, serve as a blueprint for a new world of horticulture. “This is not normal,” said Mr. Forrest, touring the garden in only a suit and tie and no overcoat. “If this becomes the new normal, then we have to change...

New York Times

Warmer, wetter week ahead
Asheville Citizen-Times
ASHEVILLE — After a brisk weekend, temperatures return this week to what seems to be the new normal. Expect a partly sunny day today with a high near 60 degrees, calm winds and a 20 percent chance of rain, according to the National Weather Service's ...

Diabetes Support Group Members Promote Understanding
OzarksFirst.com
Type two is the one that's caused by obesity and lack of physical activity, but the people KOLR10/KOZL spoke with at a support group Sunday say they often run into people with misconceptions about the differences between the two. a new normal," said ...

Why The Artist is The Perfect Movie For These Times
Huffington Post
But how it illuminated in such simple elegance the shift of technology we are all facing today, the trauma of change and then the return to a new normal. For the Artist, sound is the new technology that threatens to destroy his livelihood and career.

The Audacity of Ambition
American Thinker
Is this the new normal? I'm sure glad Steve Jobs didn't act on this kind of advice -- I really do enjoy my iPhone. And I'm glad I didn't act on such tripe as well. Ambition -- some have it and some don't. It matters not which country you live in as ...

Strawberry growers struggle
News Chief
The bigger concern, however, is that this year's strawberry market may have become the new normal, they said. "Over the years, it's been a competition between California and Florida," Lott said. "Now we've got Mexico in the mix.

The conversation has grown (up)
Downtown Journal
A 24/7/365 life is the new normal, and thus the need to offer an appealing 24/7/365 experience is crucial to being the place where people want to locate. As the crossroads of work, entertainment, culture, public spaces, tourism, retail, education, ...

Downtown Journal

Pudgy pets are problematic
MiamiHerald.com
"We've made fat pets the new normal," said the agency's president and founder, veterinarian Dr. Ernie Ward. Obesity is now the leading health threat of pets, he said. The simple truth is, being overweight has caused many of the same health problems in ...

Oil Prices – It's What Everyone is Talking About
Wall Street Pit
... surrounding Iran, Andrew Sentance, a former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, said high and fluctuating prices for energy were part of a “new normal” economic climate in which Asia is the main engine of global growth.

Families left to cope with guilt, grief, doubt after suicide
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
You are never the same person, but you learn to live with the new normal," she said. Laurie Barnett-Levine, vice chairwoman for the Ray of Hope, a suicide awareness and prevention task force in the county, said work is under way to help people ...

REAL ID: The Big Data concession stand v. "Mexican Terrorist" with drivers ...
OpEdNews
Many slaves to convenience will complain irritably that merchants and government agencies have been performing this function as the new normal for years and to get over "privacy" issues. It's a funny coincidence as the firms who buy and sell this ...

Investors Should Look South To Brazil's Economy (EWZ, BZF, ITUB, PBR, VIV, EEM...
ETF Daily News
Rather, steady and solid are the watchwords for Brazil in the “new normal.” That being said, this emerging market's (NYSEArca:EEM) GDP growth could surprise to the upside in 2012 if the global economy finds its footing. Barring another global financial ...

ETF Daily News

The Perfect Movie For These Times | Maria's Farm Country Kitchen
By heatherhurlock
But how it illuminated in such simple elegance the shift of technology we are all facing today, the trauma of change and then the return to a new normal. For the Artist, sound is the new technology that threatens to destroy his livelihood and ...
Maria's Farm Country Kitchen

PJ Media » Slow 'Recovery,' Dire Consequences
By Tom Blumer
“A president with the gall to brag about the set of conditions just described and who wants us to believe, with press assistance, that this is the “new normal,” it's the best we can hope for, and that we'd better get used to it, is one who deserves to ...
PJ Media

Increasing congestion in the west highlights need for new directions ...
By jhumm
However, congestion is creeping back up again, with Christchurch City Council road corridor operations manager Paul Burden calling it a “new normal” as new travel patterns in the post-quake environment begin to cement. Riccarton Rd ...
Christchurch Transport Blog

Roy Morgan: Business focussed on “internal efficiencies ...
By Houses and Holes
My view of this is that it is more permanent than Dr Lowe reckons. In fact, it is a new normal of lower demand growth, not any passing issue to be blamed on Europe or anything else. Business is steadily realising this and seeking efficiencies.
macrobusiness.com.au

feMOMhist: No magic bullet
By feMOMhist
Previously he would have been to shy to go over or ended up being overly physical and inadvertently hurting someone. I kept peering out the window at him just to make sure. I wonder if this could become our new normal? Labels: ADHD ...
feMOMhist

New normal « Family Scholars
Now it is the new normal. After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold: more than half of births to ...
familyscholars.org/2012/02/18/new-normal/

VIDEO: Stillwater man searches for "new normal" after injury that left ...
Two years ago, with batter board and string, Wayne Prater went out to a piece of land he owned on the outskirts of Stillwater. He plotted out the fou.
www.stwnewspress.com/.../VIDEO-Stillwater-man-searches-fo...

The Generation of the “New Normal” |
Last year, headlines were made when a study revealed that 73% of African American children are born in single parent homes. These same children also ...
blog.traciscampbell.com/2012/.../generation-of-the-new-norm...

Twitter / LegalRebels: From the New Normal this w ...
From the New Normal this week, see our interview with Peter Kalis, of K&L Gates, about the future of the legal profession....
twitter.com/LegalRebels/statuses/172364655765884928

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