Stephen's short PPT on Provocations on our panel at TxLA

1. Innovations: Provocations A TxLA discussion with Stephen Abram, Gale Cengage Learning John Blyberg, The Darien Library Leah Krevit, Rice University

2. A Challenge to Leadership

3. Are you ready for boundaryless, containerless content?

4. Is the traditional book or text book now a hollow experience?

5. Can we design a 21 st Century book experience?

8. What about censorship? Freedom of expression? Freedom…. in general

10. Are we ready for the post book world? http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=book+sculpture&page=44

16. So what are your end user goals? Do you measure clicks? Articles? Satisfaction? Success?

17. Are you ready to really increase usage? How about 1000%? Or just doubling every 18 months?

19. Will we find our voice? Bing Google Libraries

20. Next up: Geo-IP Foursquare Gowalla

21. Why discuss library impact at all?

23. Can we assemble content that has impact and matters?

24. Geo-Social 4Sq/Gowalla

25. What will the new text and reading experience be for books, news, scholarship and magazines? Can we assemble them like IKEA? Or on the fly?

26. Can we do better than GM did in adapting to change? Does the IKEA Strategy work for GM. End User - Assemble it yourself!

27. Newspapers: Assemble them yourself. Re-imagine the book, the textbook, the video, the coursepack, and the experience.

28. Mobile, Just mobile Ready for it?

30. The BIG Challenge “ The Internet has now progressed to its infancy” Search, Social Networks, Learning, Commerce

31. Apple/Amazon

32. Get Good at The Cloud

33. Will we defend a 16 th Century vision that isn’t at risk?