Comments on: How long do you forgive bad tech? What do you do next?

By: AL Inside Scoop » Midwinter Event Planner Blues

AL Inside Scoop » Midwinter Event Planner Blues — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:00:30 +0000

[...] panned on the ALA Council email list and several library blogs (What I Learned Today… and librarian.net, as two [...]

By: Jenny Levine

Jenny Levine — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:29:58 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. We’ll be working on this, as noted in the trackback above. We hope to revive your optimism.

By: ALA Marginalia » Blog Archive » It’s Been a Tough Start to the New Year at ALA….

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:17:25 +0000

[...] this tool still isn’t what it should be. We got some valuable feedback from Nicole Engard and Jessamyn West that noted other concerns, such as a notice that the site recommends Internet Explorer and security [...]

By: thezak

thezak — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:30:44 +0000

What alternative organizations are there to ALA?…

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:53:01 +0000

It occurs to me that this could be really useful. Want your clueless admin to learn about issues, technology? Hack their event planner and send them to a whole new set of sessions.

By: johnofjack

johnofjack — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:16:15 +0000

The ALA is one of those groups I love in principle and am intensely disappointed in in practice. They are just so incredibly out of touch in so many different ways; I picture the decisions all being made by people who rely on what they learned ten to thirty years ago and find little incentive to keep learning.

By: caleb

caleb — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:49:53 +0000

It would be an honor to have my event planner hacked by you.

By: Jason Griffey

Jason Griffey — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:59:58 +0000

Just emailed this to the ALA Conference Planning Committee, of which I am a member. I’ll report back if I get any response.