1. The Challenges of Keeping Up in a Volatile World Marydee Ojala SLA, New York City, June 11, 2003

2. Blogs, mags, etc. -- Keeping up to date on the Net Using the Net to keep up Staying up to date on what’s happening with the Net Remember that this is both free and fee- based

3. Keeping Up for Whom? Yourself Your clients/patrons/users Your colleagues

4. Keeping Up With What? Tools – search engines, databases Resources – new stuff Industry – yours and theirs Profession – yours, sometimes theirs

5. Keeping Up in What Way? How to inform others of new things Newsletters Blogs Intranets Current awareness E-mails Other – print is not dead

6. Keeping Up for Yourself What’s going on with the profession Online and a whole lot more Newsbreaks (www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks)www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks What’s going on in your industry The industry in which you work Hard if you’re not in a specific industry

7. Educating Yourself Continuing education WebSearch University (www.websearchu.com)www.websearchu.com Local courses, Webinars University help pages, guides, tutorials Talking with staff, colleagues Listservs

8. Keeping Up for your Clients Scanning the literature for them, environmental scanning, current awareness Automating the process Level of specialization Language Cut and paste - portability Copyright

9. Keeping Up with Your Industry Direct feed from trade publications Information on industry buried in general business news sources

10. PushMePullYou Push or pull? Traditional online alerts - push MyYahoo and the other Mys - push New York Times Tracker – push Google News – pull Traditional search – pull Delivery mechanisms

11. Current Awareness Moreover Technologies Dialog NewsEdge NewsBooster Today’s paper

12. Multiple industries? Consulting firms Financial services Industries coupled with professions Multinationals

13. Special Situation of News Librarians Not just our profession, our industry Generalists – following all the news Keeping up with journalism as a profession Is Google enough?

14. Keeping Up with Tools Gary’s blog Resource Shelf Greg Notess’ Search Engine Showdown Chris Sherman’s Search Day Danny Sullivan’s Search Engine Watch ONLINE magazine, other ITI pubs New technologies such as visualization, nanotechnology

15. Keeping Up with Resources Tara Calishain’s ResearchBuzz Steven Bell’s Keeping Up Web page (http://staff.philau.edu/bells/keepup)http://staff.philau.edu/bells/keepup Free Pint Virtual Chase

16. Keeping Up on Sources ProQuest – Business Content Update LexisNexis This Week InfoPro Update Press releases Keeping up with what you can offer in the library, on the desktop, and outside the library/office/city/company/academic institution

17. Disseminating Your Knowledge Keeping it too yourself doesn’t help Blogs within your organization Tailored e-mails Tips on the intranet Newsletters, electronic or in print Stickies at DeutscheBank Setting up profiles for employees

18. Drowning in Information It is harder and harder to keep up as more and more information sources surface It’s not just text, it’s technology You’ll never know it all There will always be surprises What companies tell you isn’t always correct

19. Contact information Marydee Ojala Editor, ONLINE: The Leading Magazine for Information Professionals marydee@xmission.com www.onlinemag.net