Learning from failure and more Kindle thoughts: New at PLN
Here’s this week’s post at PLN Highlights — and if you haven’t signed up for the PALINET Leadership Network, now is a great time to do so, and to become an active participant. There may be readers of Walt at Random who have no intention of ever being any sort of leader within libraries, not even thought leaders or professional leaders–but surely there aren’t many!
What’s new at the PALINET Leadership Network (PLN)?
- We tend to share success stories–but we’re not so good at sharing failures (or “learning experiences” or “qualified successes” or “premature innovations”). That’s true even though we may learn more from clearly-described missteps than we do from successes. Learning from failure combines a post by Meredith Farkas, some of the comments on that post, a related post by Alan Kirk Gray–and a new page on the Library Success Wiki. We’d all benefit from your learning experiences; can we do better at sharing?
- In Light my fire: thoughts on the Kindle, Villanova’s Joe Lucia comments on his own experiences using Amazon’s Kindle and considers the nature of text and books.
- Leader’s Digest for March 2008 brings together summaries and extracts from more than twenty articles on aspects of leadership and other current events. Some of the elements in this collation will turn up elsewhere over the next days and weeks, but they’re in place now for a good overview–as are 18 earlier Leader’s Digest compilations and conference reports.
There’s a Feedback and suggestions page for PLN–and each of the dozen Topics (primary categories) also has a Feedback and suggestions page. There’s also a Site Feedback Forum. All of which is to say: We welcome and need your feedback–and if adding to one of those pages or starting a topic in the forum is too public for your taste, feel free to send your feedback to crawford@palinet.org or waltcrawford@gmail.com.
