Comments on: Movers & Shakers 2009

By: Movers and Shakers: One more degree of separation - Spurious Tuples

Movers and Shakers: One more degree of separation - Spurious Tuples — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:47:27 +0000

[...] congratulations to my good friends Jason Griffey and Kim Duckett on being named “Movers and Shakers” for 2009 by Library Journal! They [...]

By: Amy York

Amy York — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:09:20 +0000

Congratulations, Jason! I’m not at all surprised to see you on this list, and you deserve the honor. I appreciate your generosity in sharing your expertise. You’ve sure helped me out a lot over the past few years.

By: K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:20:25 +0000

Thanks, Francine, much appreciated. Jason, let the glow stay focused on you for a while — the Social Software Showcase is really interesting and frankly, there was a lot more behind THOSE scenes — as I well remember. Tell us more about it! Why not include… what didn’t work the way you thought it would? What was a surprising success? What outcomes did you have that you didn’t anticipate?

By: laurenpressley

laurenpressley — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:15:59 +0000

Congratulations, Jason, and thanks for the mention! I feel the exact same way about the list.

By: Jason Griffey

Jason Griffey — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:00:29 +0000

Karen, I would LOVE to hear your take on the early start of BIGWIG. I was in early (I’m actually like user #2 or 3 on LITABlog) but I’m sure there was a TON of work behind the scenes to even get to that point.

Francine: Thanks SO MUCH for the quick change. You guys at LJ rock, and I’ve always been thrilled to work with you.

By: Francine Fialkoff

Francine Fialkoff — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:21:26 +0000

Correction made on the article page and my apologies for the error to Karen et al. Of course, we (Library Journal) know the history of BIGWIG. And congrats to Jason, Karen C and all the other LJ 2009 Movers. Jason, I hope you get your wish to make that other list, too.

By: Polly Potter

Polly Potter — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:01:58 +0000

Congratulations to you and Karen – well-deserved recognition for putting yourselves into challenges and then delivering quality work.

By: K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:57:26 +0000

Jason, thanks for commenting on your blog and I’m sorry I didn’t wait a week or so to raise this — my timing was poor.

I’ll write later about the early history of BIGWIG so it is well-documented. There were more than two of us — it was a group of folks who got BIGWIG launched despite a lot of pushback from LITA, and even before the Social Software Showcase it was something entirely different. Even starting the blog was in retrospect hilariously challenging. “Who would want that? Why do we need that?” etc. I can go back to the message traffic from that period and laugh myself silly. Plus there were crucial moments where BIGWIG itself faced major challenges. We scared folks.

Quite a bit of innovative work has been done behind scenes in our profession. In fact, if you want my take on who should be a M&S, it would be Janet Swan Hill, who led the Task Force on Electronic Meeting Participation through a minefield… and nobody was harmed and ALA, because of her leadership, will change in significant ways. Maybe we need a new award, Older But With More Insurance, for some of the tough un-shiny work that nonetheless yields powerful change.

But you and Karen C. (and others) have done an excellent job with the Social Software Showcase and you well deserve recognition for your efforts with this specific BIGWIG initiative.