The Corporate Librarian

So here’s my Wordle for this blog:

Looking at it, an awful lot is focused on jobs. Sadly, other topics that would be of interest I don’t really have good advice on. How to deal with IT when you want to try new things? Wasn’t an issue at the last job, not an issue (for different reasons) at the current job. Marketing myself? Not much of a way to do that at the last job, no need at the current job (where there are four or five other people, all of whom know what I do).

I’m not sure how much I can blog about the current job, honestly.

I likely won’t be going to many conferences until my finances improve (though I might lobbycon Internet Librarian). For all my talk about wanting hands-on workshops, I haven’t gotten anywhere on planning an unconference.

So honestly, I’m not sure where the blog is going from here.

One note: Until I can figure out a better solution, I’m addressing my earlier bewailing of the lack of online meeting places for corporate librarians by creating a Room on FriendFeed. People can post their thoughts, or comment on other people’s posts or share links of various sorts.

So, I’ve been thinking about this for a while, but mucking out the Open Thread post brought it to mind again. I’ve generally been OK with people pitching their products/services as long as they’re a) library-related and b) open about it.

What is the preference of my readers? No product pitches ever? Product pitches are fine?

I’ve been pretty busy with details of finishing up my job, looking for a new one, packing up my apartment, and so on. And next week, I’ll be flying off to South Africa to train my replacement. Johannesburg, for any South African readers wanting to meet up.

But I haven’t forgotten my readers!

A minor change to the About page - rather than give my e-mail address, I’ve replaced it with a comment form. So any questions or comments you have which don’t seem relevant to a specific post, feel free to drop them in there!

It’s really not much of a secret - I mean, I should have created a corporatelibrarian account on gmail if I truly wanted to maintain my anonymity. Or not posted my trading card on Flickr recently. And for those of you as addicted to Web 2.0 things as I am, here’s my profile-in-progress at Library 2.0 on Ning.

But for the 3 or 4 people who haven’t figured it out, hi. My name’s Steven Kaye. I work for Accenture, at least I do until April 30th. When I first set up this blog, the advice I got was to keep it anonymous until Accenture figured out its blogging policy. But it gets awkward writing about oneself in the third person, I was annoyed that I had to turn down an chance to be quoted by Judith Siess because I wasn’t sure what I could and couldn’t reveal about myself, and from what I can tell from Accenture’s blogging policy, as long as I follow common sense guidelines:

• Follow the company’s Business Code of Ethics
• Respect copyright and fair use policies
• Protect confidential and proprietary information
• Don’t comment on or disclose the company’s financial or operational performance
• Don’t reference company clients, business partners or suppliers without permission and don’t use their actual names
• Use a disclaimer

I’m kosher. I’d wondered about that last bit, since WordPress doesn’t seem to have an easy way to post a disclaimer so it’s always at the top of a blog. So for now, I’ve created a disclaimer page.

Got any questions, now that I no longer have a secret identity?

So, faithful readers of the Corporate Librarian, what topics would you like to see me discuss next? ‘Cause honestly, right now I got nothin’.